English 3
CONTENTS
1 BEFORE USE ................................................ 7
Notes on handling the internal HDD .............. 7
Notes on installation locations ....................... 7
The HDD and cooling fan are consumable
components. .................................................. 7
Important recordings ...................................... 7
Protection of the HDD .................................... 7
Backup battery ............................................... 8
2 NAMES AND FUNCTIONS OF PARTS ........ 9
Front panel ..................................................... 9
Rear panel ................................................... 11
3 INSTALLATION AND CONNECTIONS ...... 13
Basic connections ........................................ 13
Connecting the RS-232C terminal ............... 13
Connecting RS-485 control terminals .......... 14
Connecting to a 2ND RS485/422 terminal ... 15
Connecting a LAN terminal .......................... 16
Connecting an amplifier ............................... 16
Connecting alarm input terminals ................. 16
Connecting SENSOR ALARM OUT
terminals ....................................................... 17
Connecting control terminals ........................ 17
Connecting the power cord .......................... 17
1 PREPARING FOR USE ............................... 18
Operation display ......................................... 18
Changing the display position of
the operation display area ............................ 19
Changing the language ................................ 19
Setting the time ............................................ 20
Hard disk archive area ................................. 21
2 MONITORING VIDEO
FROM A CAMERA ...................................... 22
Viewing on a full screen ............................... 22
Viewing on quad screens ............................. 23
Viewing on multi 9 or multi 16 screens ........ 24
Enlarging video ............................................ 24
Automatic camera selection ......................... 25
Viewing on monitor 2 ................................... 26
3 RECORDING ............................................... 29
Normal recording ......................................... 29
Timer recording ............................................ 29
Alarm recording ............................................ 30
Pre-alarm recording ..................................... 30
4 PLAY ............................................................ 31
Playing video on a full screen ...................... 31
Fast-forward and fast-rewind playback ........ 31
Changing the playback speed ...................... 31
Magnifying the playback video ..................... 32
Viewing still images ...................................... 33
Frame advance (forward/reverse) ................ 33
Playing video on multiple screens ................ 33
5 SEARCHING FOR RECORDED VIDEO ..... 35
Alarm log search .......................................... 36
Alarm search ................................................ 37
Alarm thumbnail search ............................... 40
Time/date search ......................................... 42
Searching within the archive area ................ 44
Motion detection search ............................... 45
6 SAVING (COPYING)
RECORDED VIDEO .................................... 49
Copying video to the hard disk’s
archive area ................................................. 50
Copying to a CompactFlash card or
Microdrive ..................................................... 51
Copying to a CD-R/RW or DVD+R/+RW ..... 54
Viewing images on a PC .............................. 57
INTRODUCTION
OPERATION
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