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Current Date and Time

This is the system clock; it displays the current date and time. 

change date warning

date and time screen

To change current date and time, double click inside the date and time screen. 

Caution: You 

could lose data by changing the date and time

Change Date and Time

After clicking yes to the change date warning screen, the following screen appears allowing you 

to change the system time or date. See image below.

change date

change date screen

apply and save changes

exit date change

change time

Hour displayed in 24 hr format

Summary of Contents for CDVS-7000

Page 1: ...CDVS 7000 Series DVR Setup And Users Manual Crest Electronics Inc Version 02 28 06...

Page 2: ...mount of space between the equipment and the receiver Connect the equipment to an outlet which is on a separate circuit than that of the receiver Consult the dealer or an experienced radio TV technici...

Page 3: ...air is not done properly 5 Do not touch product with wet hands as electric shock may occour 6 Product must be installed by a quali ed professional Failure to do so could result in malfunction electric...

Page 4: ...stall the product on inclined or unstable locations such as an unstable cart slant tripod bracket or table The unit may fall causing serious injury and serious damage to the unit Cautions about the Po...

Page 5: ...nection Button 1 7 Relay Control Button 1 7 Sensor Button 1 7 Channel Swapping 1 8 Partial Zoom 1 8 Quick Search Function 1 9 Quick search by date and time 1 10 Image Screen Pop Up Menu 1 10 Search Me...

Page 6: ...ckup Menu 3 1 Using Smart Backup 3 2 Detail Description of the Smart Backup Screen 3 3 Recorded Data Screen 3 3 Step By Step Examples of Smart Backup 3 8 AVI Backup 3 18 Media Backup 3 19 AVI Capture...

Page 7: ...ling a Preset 5 7 Chapter 6 Backup Player Backup Player 6 1 Overview of the Backup Player Screen 6 3 Functions Buttons 6 4 Playback Controls 6 4 Date Calendar 6 5 Time Control Bar 6 5 Zoom 6 6 Using D...

Page 8: ...Chapter 1 Overview of Main Screen 1...

Page 9: ...n the image making it the selected camera will be highlighted in red then click the single camera division button To change back double click within the image Each image displays the camera name and t...

Page 10: ...amera view to another click the Next but ton To have the system automatically change from one 4 camera view to another click the Auto Rotate button see below 6 Camera Display Button This will allow th...

Page 11: ...o have the system rotate from one 13 camera view to another click the Next button To have the system automatically change from one 13 camera view to another click the Auto Rotate button see below 16 C...

Page 12: ...account and email set up on the DVR LIVE SNAPSHOT VIEW IN 4 CAMERA DIVISION Live Audio Button This button turns live audio on and off To listen to live audio click on the desired camera im age will be...

Page 13: ...ck inside the date and time screen Caution You could lose data by changing the date and time Change Date and Time After clicking yes to the change date warning screen the following screen appears allo...

Page 14: ...mode is also displayed in the image at the top right corner of each image User Log On To log on click the lock in the left corner of the user login button The following screen will display allowing yo...

Page 15: ...on screen It will list all connections to the DVR see picture below Relay Control Button When a relay is activated this button will ash To bring up the relay and sensor bar click on this button Acti v...

Page 16: ...d positions are not permanent The swapped channels are returned to their original positions when the user chooses another screen division or the DVR is rebooted Channel Swapping Crest CDVS 7000 series...

Page 17: ...in the image area You could also select one of the camera numbers at the bottom of the screen After selecting the camera right click in the image area This will bring up the live screen pop up menu C...

Page 18: ...and time until it nds recorded video It then starts playback from this point Quick Search assumes that the user wants to play back the most recent le or knows the date and time of the requested video...

Page 19: ...ere the user sets up the system environment These functions include Camera setup Sensor setup Relay setup scheduling of recording mode and time setting of pre and post alarm recording the setting of c...

Page 20: ...TZ Button The PTZ button gives the user access to the Pan Tilt Zoom controller for controlling any PTZ cameras which have been set up in the system For information on PTZ setup please refer to Chapter...

Page 21: ...Chapter 2 Search Screen Functions 2...

Page 22: ...cture and audio controls Exit button Date calendar Zoom picture Hour and minute controls Camera selection buttons Search Screen Menus The following options are available from the search screen menu bu...

Page 23: ...k If designed for four cameras it will display in 4 camera mode Playback Screen Each camera s OSD on screen display shows the camera s name recorded resolution method of recording and time and date of...

Page 24: ...he partial zoom feature the picture screen must be in single camera mode and be playing video There are three options for the zoom feature no zoom full mode or section mode To use the zoom feature cli...

Page 25: ...rt mode as shown in the image below Click and drag the area within the image you want to make brighter The area you highlighted will ll the entire screen and become brighter The image below shows both...

Page 26: ...choose the camera view desired The available options depend on which system you have purchased 4 8 16 channels If you are in a screen division that is not showing all cameras you can move to the next...

Page 27: ...in orange color Use the playback control buttons to control the direction of the video being played There are 5 buttons to control the video forward backward advance frame by frame reverse frame by f...

Page 28: ...off live audio audio on off audio volume less contrast less brightness playback slower playback faster more brightness more contrast click control name to set to normal The date calendar is used to t...

Page 29: ...by a white vertical bar The hour and minute can be changed by clicking anywhere in the blue hour or minute bar The image below shows the different recording modes hour bar current playback hour motion...

Page 30: ...Chapter 3 Backing Up Data 3...

Page 31: ...a start and end date and time for a single camera It also allows the user the choice of recording audio AVI will record to CD R CD RW hard disk or USB drive 3 Media backup Media backup allows the user...

Page 32: ...k OK The system takes you to the smart backup screen as shown below Backup Date and Time Search Calendar Selected video play back screen Camera Selection Open close camera mode selection box Camera Re...

Page 33: ...left to playback slower Detail Description of the Smart Backup Screen The Recorded Data Information screen see picture below is used to nd and choose the re corded video you wish to back up The month...

Page 34: ...ur selected hour will dis play from white to red and click the hour down arrow button To move minutes you must rst select the minutes by clicking and dragging the slider bar selected minutes will turn...

Page 35: ...o show it is selected day and click the Date up arrow but ton If the user wants to remove an entire hour select the day and hour of the video you want to remove from the Selected Data Screen and click...

Page 36: ...p Use the search screen to nd the incident rst Camera Record Mode Screen allows the user to select which cameras are to be backed up Cam era mode selection also allows the user to control what recordi...

Page 37: ...t also contains the re cord button To change the location where the backup les are to be saved click the data path selection but ton The following Windows screen appears Select the drive and folder yo...

Page 38: ...deo and audio for 16 cameras that were re corded continuously I want to back up November 6 so I choose the 6th day of November you can see I have chosen the 6th as it is displayed in black As you can...

Page 39: ...ta Screen we need to select the cameras and mode we want to backup We want to backup all cameras but only video that has been recorded con tinuously as well as any audio that has been recorded We need...

Page 40: ...on next to the data path box see below The Windows Browse for Folder menu appears see below Select the drive and folder you wish to save the back up to In our case this is Removable Disk Drive F Click...

Page 41: ...nd click Yes The system will start the back up process The system displays the wait screen as shown below The system displays the status of the backup with a progress bar and shows the amount of data...

Page 42: ...ter being selected We then click on 6 00 hour 18 as system displays 24hr time Next we click the hour down button to transfer information to the Selected Data Screen The screen below re ects our choice...

Page 43: ...of recorded video from different days From the 4th of October we will be backing up 17 20 to 17 25 From the 19th of October we will be backing up from 9 00 to 9 15 We also want to back up all record...

Page 44: ...selects 15 minutes See picture below Selected minutes display dark blue selected day displays black To transfer the selected minutes click the Min down button After transferring the Selected data scr...

Page 45: ...te When backing up make sure that the device you are backing up to has enough free space to hold your backup To see how much space is needed look at the Selected data screen which will tell you in KB...

Page 46: ...ckup Server_Client and click next Click Next to start copying les Click Finish to end installation Display the sta tus of the install program After the installation has nished the program can be start...

Page 47: ...s and ask for the directory the video data is stored Check use FOH and highlight the CD RW drive the backup CD was inserted into Click OK and the video data on the CD starts playing For information on...

Page 48: ...a path directory obtain bookmark for start time obtain bookmark for end time start backup exit AVI backup drive and folder lo cation for backup start backup time start backup date End backup time end...

Page 49: ...em to disk The image below shows the functions of the Media Backup screen CD Backup Exit Folder Backup Delete File Back up AVI le size in KB of JPG les to create File selection tools Playback controls...

Page 50: ...box The expanded box shows the hours for the selected camera and days that have recorded video The image below shows the hour box expanded If there is no video for the selected camera and the date sel...

Page 51: ...es the video See images below audio check box Number of minutes to capture start AVI capture le size in KB To capture less than a minute of AVI video the user can simply click the AVI capture button T...

Page 52: ...ck the le name AVI les cannot be reviewed Files created in Media backup can be saved to a network drive via folder backup which can be saved to a CD R or CD RW via disk backup Image below shows the im...

Page 53: ...s the user a general overview of the recording status for the date selected on the right side of the screen The color of the graph bar indicates the type of recording continuous green motion detection...

Page 54: ...e playback screen and start playing video from the selected time The user can also double click on a position on the graph to start playing recorded video in the playback screen If the user chooses a...

Page 55: ...w and choose the type of log you would like to view Next click on the date you would like to review from the date screen The images that follow show the different types of logs you can review log tab...

Page 56: ...nges that a particular user makes to the system are logged here Examples of such changes include log on log off environment changes and searches Network Log Network log gives details as to who logged...

Page 57: ...e system displays the rst recorded image for every hour that there is recorded data for the selected day One of these 24 thumbnails can then be further broken down into 60 thumbnails Each thumbnail di...

Page 58: ...earch screen hour and minute thumbnails hour or minute selection button preview current video playback time Hour Thumbnails The image below is a sample of the hour thumbnails The thumbnails display th...

Page 59: ...e user to control the display of the hour and minute thumbnails If the box is not checked only the rst thumbnail time with recorded video will display If pre view box is checked all time thumbnails wi...

Page 60: ...display in the playback screen Select the sensitivity setting you want and click select all For example if you wanted the entire screen to have low sensitivity you would select show grid then move the...

Page 61: ...ect the image is played back in fast speed until motion is detected Once motion is detected the image is played back in normal speed until the user clicks the pause but ton Stop on detect With Stop on...

Page 62: ...ark Data Path Data path is used by the system to review video backed up with Smart Backup To review the video backed up using Smart Backup the user must tell the system which disk contains the backed...

Page 63: ...click ADD The new bookmark is added to the list To play a bookmark highlight the bookmark you want to review and click GO The system returns to the playback screen and begins playing back the selecte...

Page 64: ...snapshot icon The snapshot window appears with the image that was on screen at the time the icon was clicked If only one camera is desired change the playback screen to one camera display mode before...

Page 65: ...napshot can be brightened or darkened The arrow to the right increases brightness while the arrow on the left darkens the picture increase brightness decrease brightness Contrast Control The contrast...

Page 66: ...view of the image before printing See the image below preview Open With the open button the system can retrieve previously saved snapshots Click the open but ton to open the explorer window and select...

Page 67: ...ve window This function will automatically give the le a name This lename can be changed by clicking in the lename box and typing a name for the le The default data path is displayed in the save to bo...

Page 68: ...setup If you click cancel the system will send the image to the default email address If the OK button is clicked the address input box will display allowing the user to enter an address for the image...

Page 69: ...Chapter 4 System Setup 4...

Page 70: ...f the system such as network settings database settings and usage and product To launch the setup menus click the setup icon The camera setup window appears Camera Setup The following image shows the...

Page 71: ...CDVS 7300 series will display jumpy video both in live and playback mode if this check box is checked and there is no camera connected to the port Copy to Selected Use copy to selected when you need...

Page 72: ...all or the copy to selected to help set the network fps see section on these features in the beginning of this chapter Recording Quality The user can set the recording quality for each channel indepe...

Page 73: ...the DVR s old settings would be back in place The images below describe this process Click the Import Export button The import export con g window pops up To export a le click the export button Next...

Page 74: ...normally closed Use Check Box The use check box tells the system if the sensor is used or not To use a sensor click the sensor number you want to use and click the use check box Sensor to Camera Link...

Page 75: ...ngs to selected sensors To select other sensors hold down the control CTRL button on the keyboard and click the sensor or sensors desired Apply Button Use the Apply button to save the changes without...

Page 76: ...lay name relay mode relay link to camera grid apply Copy to Selected User can copy selected sensor settings to selected sensors To select other sensors hold down the control CTRL button on the keyboar...

Page 77: ...relay will continue to send signal for as long as sensor is activated Set Time Operation Sends a signal when either a sensor or motion event occurs System will send a signal for the time set in the mi...

Page 78: ...ensor Recording Symbol M S Color Orange No Recording Symbol N Color Beige Continuous mode recording In continuous mode recording the image is saved at a xed resolution based on the recording schedule...

Page 79: ...te motion recording use the following instructions 1 Select camera or cameras 2 Click the MR M radio button 3 Click and drag the mouse icon in the recording schedule grid to select the days and hours...

Page 80: ...by selecting the radio button CM C 3 We now will set the days and time for record ing these cameras in continuous mode Because we want these cameras to record everyday 24 hrs a day we will click in t...

Page 81: ...selected for motion recording as indicated by the image below cameras 2 5 6 7 8 selected schedule selection grid displays yellow with cells showing M motion radio button checked Next we need to set t...

Page 82: ...ne with the motion function located on the main screen Before exiting the Setup screen we need to save the changes made Click the apply button then the save and close button See Image below Click Appl...

Page 83: ...ss sensitive or to the right more sensitive Moving the slider completely to the left white square will allow the user to re move the grid When an area is removed from the grid the system will ignore a...

Page 84: ...e user to set each relay by day and hour independent of the other relays The image below shows the Relay sched ule window relay selection buttons relay schedule grid use or not used mode Event Noti ca...

Page 85: ...hedule for Holiday follows the schedule set up for Sunday regardless of the actual day Camera Type The system supports both NTSC and PAL Select the type of cameras connected to the system System must...

Page 86: ...recorded data when all hard drive space is used The system will overwrite the rst le and continue in order until the last VDB le is overwritten It then repeats the cycle For information on VDB les se...

Page 87: ...articular event use the down arrow to scroll to the camera and event you want to set up Highlight this event then click the down arrow on the le type and select a sound effect For custom sound effects...

Page 88: ...using a dedicated line such as cable ASDL VSDL This is the recommended type of connection because of its bandwidth speed ISDN Modem This type of connection has a low and limited bandwidth for handling...

Page 89: ...SMTP address and account information for using email noti cation Set DDNS see using dynamic IP in appendix set the SMTP address and account informa tion for sending email Email Noti cation Email noti...

Page 90: ...n must be set up when automatic connection and pop up window feature is used with remote client program To use 1 Click to place a check mark in the use box 2 Enter IP address of the client 3 Press the...

Page 91: ...ed Because manager is one level below admin he does not have rights to create modify or delete admin accounts Manager does have the right to add modify or delete equal or lower level accounts GUEST Lo...

Page 92: ...e instructions below 1 Select user ID to be deleted from the user grid 2 Click the delete button 3 Check the user name grid the user should be removed Edit User To edit user follow the instructions be...

Page 93: ...to restrict detail items Detail items grant users permission for two way voice communication remote image surveillance and remote relay con trol To grant permission for the user place a check mark in...

Page 94: ...f audio channels the DVR has and the number of sensors and relay contained in the system 2 Network Information Displays system information related to the network such as host name domain name DNS serv...

Page 95: ...Chapter 5 Setup PTZ Function 5...

Page 96: ...amera and the TX cable of the DVR to the RX cable of the PTZ camera See example below RX RX TX TX PTZ Camera 7000 Series DVR Connecting PTZ Using RS 232 Device If the PTZ requires a RS 232 connection...

Page 97: ...era AUX Out Control Allows user to turn on or o aux pieces such as heater blowers wipers Light Control Allows user to control light on o Auto Iris Controls the camera s iris control automatically Auto...

Page 98: ...x to turn on PTZ function Select PTZ Protocol Select the PTZ Camera s protocol type from the drop down menu Address Enter the PTZ Camera s address See PTZ camera manual for information on setting the...

Page 99: ...resets The exam ple below shows the Preset Reserve Setup Screen Touring Group Preset No Dwell Time sec Touring Group The group number up to 4 groups are available Preset No User enters the number of t...

Page 100: ...mera for instructions on setting up the camera If after reading the manual you are still unsure of the settings please check with the manufacturer before calling Crest technical support Camera 5 selec...

Page 101: ...the user to control the PTZ camera with the mouse To use the mouse con trols double click the live image of the PTZ camera so the only camera showing is the PTZ cam era Click the PTZ button to bring...

Page 102: ...elco begin preset numbering with 1 The CDVS 7000 preset number 1 relates to the number 0 which means that preset number 1 will not work with a PTZ camera that uses Pelco P or D protocol There is a pat...

Page 103: ...ctual number of presets may be limited by camera The preset re served function will allow the system to travel to each of the 64 presets The screen is composed of 4 touring groups each with 16 preset...

Page 104: ...Chapter 6 Backup Player 6...

Page 105: ...sk is inserted into the CD RW dirve The images below will go through the install process Caution Do not reinsert the CD into the DVR after the backup program has nished writing the back up les and eje...

Page 106: ...the CD Going into MY Computer and double clicking the CD drive letter will do the same thing The second way is to go to Windows Start Programs Files DVR DVRPlayback DVR Playback If the playback progra...

Page 107: ...m a CDVS 7000 Series DVR The data can be on a USB thumb drive CD DVD removable hard disk oppy disk or net work back up server The Backup Player uses a similiar interface the DVR uses to replay recorde...

Page 108: ...a was saved Watermark Allows the use to verify the watermark of the recorded video ensuring that it has not been tampered with Language Allows the user to choose a di erent language for the Backup Pla...

Page 109: ...hour and minute controls display the currently playing hour and minute Time that video was recorded in continuous mode displays in green Time that video was recorded with audio displays in blue Time t...

Page 110: ...Click the use FOH button to tell the system you want to view les created in the CDVS 7000 native le format Failure to check this box will result in not being able to play back saved video After check...

Page 111: ...use the partial zoom feature the picture screen must be in single camera mode and be playing video There are three options for the zoom feature no zoom full mode or section mode To use the zoom featu...

Page 112: ...rt mode as shown in the image below Click and drag the area within the image you want to make brighter The area you highlighted will ll the entire screen and become brighter The image below shows both...

Page 113: ...er to choose the camera view desired The available options depend on which system you have purchased 4 8 16 channels If you are in a screen division that is not showing all cameras you can move to the...

Page 114: ...ayed back on a standard Windows media player The system assumes that the user knows the date time and camera that is to be backed up to AVI le format AVI backup allows you to back up only one camera a...

Page 115: ...pin up You can then backup another AVI le provided there is space left on the disk Media Backup Media Backup allows the user to save video les in two formats AVI and JPG The main differ ence between A...

Page 116: ...date down arrow The date will display all dates where there is video in the system The image below shows the date function To select the hour for searching use the hour box Click the down arrow to exp...

Page 117: ...e pause button Set the desired number of minutes to convert to an AVI le If you have recorded audio and wish to include audio click the audio check box Click the AVI Capture button to start capture Th...

Page 118: ...highlighting the le and clicking the delete button If the user does not want to save one of the les in the list just uncheck the check box to the left of the le name This will unmark the le for backup...

Page 119: ...em or exit Media Backup Please note At this time the AVI les do not show the date and time stamp in the video Date and time can be read from the AVI player To save date and time stamp within the video...

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