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7. PTZ Control
The digital video/audio recorder supports a variety of PTZ cameras. The user can
easily control the PTZ cameras through the operations described in this Chapter if
those PTZ cameras have been connected and setup correctly. Please refer to
Section
3.2 Optional Connections
for the connections. Please refer to
Section 6.1
Pre-Camera Setup
to set the PTZ ID of each PTZ camera, and
Section 6.9
RS-232/422/485 Setup
to setup the control port.
If a camera is also a PTZ camera, there will be an asterisk (*) preceding its title in its
video window in split-window display. Please press
PTZ
button
(Mouse:
)
to
enter PTZ control mode if the focus camera is a PTZ camera. The asterisk (*) will
be changed to inverse color to indicate that the camera is now in PTZ control mode.
In PTZ control mode, the user’s operations can be divided into general operations and
miscellaneous function specific operations, and are described as the followings:
General operations:
!
PTZ
(Mouse:
)
Press this button to exit PTZ control mode. The asterisk (*) will be changed
back to normal color.
!
!
"
(Mouse: Left-click in the up/down area of the video window)
Press these buttons to tilt the camera up/down.
!
"#
(Mouse: Left-click in the left/right area of the video window)
Press these buttons to pan the camera left/right.
!
ZOOM (
) +/-
(Mouse:
)
Press these buttons to zoom in/out the camera.
!
GOTO
(Mouse:
)
Press this button to move the camera to the preset position. Press numeric
buttons
0-9
to enter the number of the preset position to move the camera to.
The range of the preset positions is 00-254.
!
NEXT
Press this button for the next miscellaneous function. The miscellaneous
functions include Focus, Iris, Auto PAN, SEQ, Preset, and Pan Speed. And the
active one will be shown on the lower right corner of the screen. The
miscellaneous function specific operations are described in the following table.
