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Remember: After making changes to the settings press/click the APPLY button.
Setting the Date and Time
It is very important if you’re planning on using the video search function that the
date and time are correctly set. This is also the case if you want to be able to use the
footage from your DVR in a court of law or similar legal proceeding.
Date: The date, in the format as chosen in the Date Format drop-down
menu.
Date Format: The format of the date (eg. DD/MM/YYYY or MM/DD/YYYY and so
on).
Time: This can be edited in the same way as the Date, or set to update
automatically.
Time Format: How the time will be displayed, either as 12-hour (AM or PM) or 24-
hour time.
NTP SETTING: Network Time Protocol. If you’ve got the DVR connected to the
Internet, you can have it automatically sync time with an online
server.
Time Zone: Particularly important if you’ve enabled NTP - set this to the time
zone where you happen to be. For example, people in eastern
Australia (Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne) choose GMT+10:00,
whilst the Eastern Time zone in the USA and Canada is GMT-05:00.
(GMT stands for Greenwich Mean Time - it’s the baseline that keeps
all the di erent time zones in sync.)
IMPORTANT: If you change your Time Zone setting, click APPLY before you
click UPDATE.
Date and Time Menu
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Remember: After making changes to the settings press/click the APPLY button.
Color Setup
You can ne tune the look of each channel individually by adjusting the HUE, BRIGHT
(brightness), CONTRAST and SATURATION values for each channel. Just select the
SETUP option under the COLOR heading to open the dialog window.
This is useful if peculiar lighting conditions, a non-standard camera or a conspicuously
colored object in the frame cause the display to be inconveniently tinted, or over/
under exposed. Basically, this will help x something that just doesn’t look ‘right’.
HUE: Changes the color mix of the image (this can have very dramatic
results). It’s somewhat like moving through a rainbow.
BRIGHT: Changes how light the image appears to be. However, it can’t make
the camera see further in the dark, or increase the clarity of an ill-lit
image.
CONTRAST: Increases the di erence between the blackest black and the whitest white
in the image. Useful if sections of the image “grey out” but setting the
contrast too high will degrade image quality.
SATURATION: Alters how much color is displayed in the image. The higher the
saturation, the more bright and vivid colors will appear to be. Again,
setting this too high can degrade image quality.
LIVE Viewing - Enabling and Disabling Channels
Monitoring something that you’d rather keep private/secret/unknown to the casual
observer? No problems. You can alter which channels appear when in live viewing
mode, and which ones appear later on.
To do so is simple: simply locate the LIVE drop down menu - it only contains two
options, Enable or Disable. Simply change the value to Disable and that channel will
now appear to be blank in live viewing mode. Images on the channel in question will
still be recorded - and you’ll see it as normal in playback mode.
Displaying the Time
In the nearby LIVE TIME and RECORD TIME drop down menus, you can select whether
you want to see the time displayed on the channel in either live viewing mode or
recording, respectively. The time will always be recorded in the event list and in
the footage’s meta-data (the information included in the le such as when it was
recorded - you can access this later) - this simply changes whether or not you see it
in the main view screen.
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