4 Monitoring and Playback
4. 1 On-Screen Display
Each channel is indicated either by its channel name or by the channel number. The date and time is displayed at the bottom of the monitor screen. In live view mode the recording status may also be displayed for each channel.
•Red “C” indicates continuous recording.
•Green “A” indicates alarm triggered recording.
•Green “M” indicates digital motion detection recording.
•No status mark indicates the channel is not being recorded.
•V.Loss indicates no video input or the channel is set as covert.
4. 2 Playback
The DVR allows playback at any time even while recording. To playback the recording, press the PLAY button. To stop the playback, press the STOP button. Subsequent playback will start from the point the last playback was stopped.
Use the directional buttons or Jog Shuttle to change the speed and direction of the playback. To playback in slow speed, pause the playback first.
4. 3 Search Playback
Press the SEARCH button to enter the Search feature. Specify the date/time or choose to playback from the Backup HDD or CD. Recording events can also be displayed by selecting Recording Event List.
4. 4 PTZ Mode
To control the camera via the front panel, enable PTZ mode by pressing the PTZ
button. The main monitor displays the PTZ status indicator.
4. 4. 1 Controlling PTZ Camera
Choose the desired PTZ camera using the channel button. Use the Zoom, Focus, Iris and directional buttons to control.
On some PTZ cameras it is possible to manipulate the camera’s
4. 4. 2 Using PTZ Presets
To define a preset camera position press the PRESET button and choose the position with the directional buttons. Then select SET followed by the Fast Forward/Up button. When finished press the PRESET button to end.
To manually move the camera to a preset position, first choose the defined preset position and then select MOVE followed by the Fast Forward/Up butotn. The camera will change its position immediately.
Once the preset positions are setup use the TOUR button to activte the PTZ movement.
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