Swann 8 Channel DVR H.264 User Manual
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Remember: After making changes to the settings press/click the APPLY button.
Color Setup
You can fine 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 fix 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 difference 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 file 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.