PTZ Controls

You can bring up the PTZ Setup window by pressing the PTZ button on the

 

 

 

 

 

remote control, or by right-clicking the mouse in the live view mode, and

 

 

 

 

 

choosing PTZ.

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Note: the features which will be usable depend

 

 

 

 

 

on the capabilities and limitations of your PTZ system.

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Here, you’ll be able to aim the camera, as well as alter aspects of the lens and

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iris configuration. We’ll explain a little more about what each of these does:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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1. SPEED ADJUSTMENT

 

 

4. FOCUS

By selecting this with the mouse or the arrow

buttons, you are able to change the speed at

Adjusts the focal plane of the lens. If an image

which your camera will tilt, pan and zoom. The

is blurry, try adjusting the focus. To best set the

higher the number, the faster the camera will

focus, move one direction until things become

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clear, and then blurry again. Move back and forth

 

2. ARROW BUTTONS

until you find sharp focus.

Used to manually move the camera. The arrow

5. IRIS

buttons will move

the camera in the selected

Controls how much light gets into the camera.

direction, and the

centre button toggles Auto-

If things look too bright (or white) lower the IRIS

Scan ON and OFF.

 

 

value. If things are too dark (or black) raise the IRIS

 

 

 

3. ZOOM

value. Many cameras do this automatically.

If you are using a variable zoom PTZ camera, you

6. CRUISE SET

can zoom in or out here. Zooming in will increase

Open the CRUISE SETUP screen, see below.

the size of objects

in view, at the expense of

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reducing the field of view. You may need to adjust

Leaves the PTZ SETUP menu.

focus when using the ZOOM function.

Cruise Mode

To setup CRUISE MODE, you’ll need to define “POINTS” for each channel with a PTZ camera you want to “cruise”. A POINT is one place that the camera needs to move to on its loop.

•Move the camera to the desired position using the arrows.

• Hit the

button.

•The point will be saved. Its name will be one digit higher than the previous point.

•For easy cruise setup, define your points in the same order as you want the camera to move through them.

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button will take the camera back to a predefined point.

The

button will remove all your defined points.

 

When you’ve set your points, select

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•To start cruise mode, select START CRUISE from the pop-up menu.

•To stop cruise mode, select STOP CRUISE from the same menu.

Remember: After making changes to the settings press/click the APPLY button.

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