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3.4 Overlay Properties
The Overlay Properties allow you to edit the text displayed on the
image.
TIME/DATE/TEXT STAMP
Text
Any text entered into this field will be stamped onto the live image.
Camera location and copyright information are two examples. In addition to
static text, the current date and time, as well as internal camera parameters,
can all become part of the text on the live image. This is handled through
markup characters. For instance,
%d
inserts the current day of the month
on the live image. There is a complete list of markup characters below and
a mini reference on the Overlay page itself.
Default:
NetCam XL %a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y
Exposure: $e
Scale
The size of the font can be scaled from 1x (smallest size) to 4x (largest
size). The larger fonts sizes are useful for high resolution images that are
being resized smaller on a web page.
Markup Character Reference
All of the following markup characters can be used in the text overlay.
Additionally, any date/time markups (preceded by the % character) can be
used to compose the filenames in the FTP Properties Page, which is very