Interlogix NVR 10 User Manual

TruVision Recorder Operator Guide

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Live view

In the viewer you can see displayed on the live image the current date and time,
camera name, and whether a recording is in progress.

Information on the system and camera status is displayed as icons on the main
and event monitors. The camera status icons are shown for each camera. Each
icon represents information on a specific item. These icons include:

Icon Description

A sensor alarm.

Recording is in progress (such as constant recording, motion
detection, or alarm-triggered recording).

A motion detection event.

Blank

screen

A video loss event.

Alarm and system notifications. Click the icon to open a screen
with a list of the notifications.

Manual recording.

Controlling live view mode

Right-click the mouse on a live image to display the mouse menu:

Name Description

1. Menu Enter the Main menu.

2. Single Camera

3. Multi Camera

4. Previous Screen Displays the previous camera screen.

5. Next Screen Displays the next camera screen.

6. Start Sequence

7. 24-hour Playback

8. Advanced Search

Switch to a full-screen view for the selected
camera from the dropdown list.

Switch between the different multiview options
from the dropdown list.

Turn on sequence mode. The screen automatically
sequences between cameras.

Go to Menu > Display Mode Settings > Layout >
Dwell Time to set up.

Playback the recorded video of the current day
from the selected camera.

In some recorders this function is called ”All-day
playback”.

Enter the advanced video search menu. See

Name Description

“Searching recorded video” on page 3 for more
information.

9. Output Mode

10. Close Timebar Open/close the time bar.

Select Standard, Bright, Soft, or Vivid mode to
display.

Login screen

For most recorder functions (such as playback, menu access, taking snapshots,
etc), you need to log in with a valid user account and password.

Default user: admin

Default password: 1234

Quick Access toolbar

Use the quick access toolbar in live view to quickly access regularly used
commands. Position the cursor over a live image and left-click the mouse. The
toolbar appears:

Note: Not all commands listed below are available on all recorders.

Icon Description

Freeze: Freeze the live image of the selected camera. Although

the image pauses, time and date information does not.

Manual Recording: Start/stop manual recording. The icon is
red when manual recording is enabled.

Instant Playback: Playback the recorded video from the last
five minutes (default time). If no recording is found, then there
was no recording made. Click the icon and select the desired
camera. Click OK.

Audio: Enable/Disable audio output. The audio option must
already have been setup in the Display menu.

Capture: Capture a snapshot of a video image. The image is
saved on the unit.

PTZ Control: Enter PTZ control mode.

Digital Zoom: Enter digital zoom.

Image Settings: Enter the Image Settings menu to modify the

image lighting levels. There are two options:
Customize: Modify brightness, contrast, saturation, and hue

values.
Default: Restore image settings to previous values.
These settings can also be modified from the Camera > Image

menu.

Auxiliary Focus: Automatically focus the camera lens for the
sharpest picture.

Note: Not available on all recorders.

Lens Initialization: Initialize the lens of a camera with a

motorized lens, such as PTZ or IP cameras. This function helps
to maintain lens focus accuracy over prolong periods of time.

Note: Not available on all recorders.

Close Toolbar: Close the shortcut toolbar.

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Some of the functions can only be accessed after entering a valid user name and
password.

Controlling a PTZ camera

Left-click the mouse on the desired camera image to call-up the Quick Access
toolbar. Click the PTZ control icon in the toolbar to enter the PTZ mode.

If the display is in multiview format, it changes to full screen format for the
selected camera.

PTZ control panel

Name Description

Directional

1.
pad/auto-scan
buttons

Zoom, focus, and

2.
iris

3. PTZ movement Adjusts the speed of PTZ movement.

4. Toolbar

Select PTZ

5.
command

6. Exit Exits the PTZ control panel.

Controls the movements and directions of the PTZ.
Center button is used to start auto-pan by the PTZ
dome camera.

Adjusts zoom, focus, and iris.

Turns on/off camera light. This command is

not supported on all PTZ cameras.

Turns on/off camera wiper. This command is

not supported on all PTZ cameras.

Zoom area

Centers the PTZ dome camera image. This

command is not supported on all PTZ cameras.

Jumps to the home position.

Displays the desired function from the scroll bar:
camera, preset, preset tour or shadow tour.

Playback

There are four ways to play back video:

 Instant playback of the most recently recorded video

 24-hour playback of the day’s recorded video (This function is called “All-

day Playback” on some recorders)

 Search the video archives by specific time, date, bookmark, snapshot, or

event

 Search the system log

Playback window (24-hour/All-day playback shown)

1. Camera panel: Select the cameras for playback. Move the mouse over the
area to display the list of cameras available.

2. Calendar panel: Blue: Current date. Green/Yellow/Red: Recordings
available on the recorder.

3. Zoom control: Zoom in and out of the timeline to show the progress bar in
greater or lesser detail.

4. Time line: Time of actual playback. This is only displayed in 24-hour/All-day
playback.

5. Playback progress bar: This bar displays how much of the 24-hour period
has been recorded. Its color depends on the recording type.

6. Playback control toolbar (See below for more information).

7. Playback viewer.

8. Recording type: Description of the color coding of the recording types that
appear in the playback progress bar.

Playback control toolbar

See Figure 1 below.

Description

1. Audio and video toolbar:

Audio on/off.

2.

3. Playback control toolbar.

Start/stop a video clip during playback. Sections of a
recording can be saved to an external storage device.

Add default bookmark.

Add customized bookmark.

Bookmark management. Click to see the list of bookmarks
and their times.

Note: Not available on all recorders.

Digital zoom. Zoom in to a selected part of the video image.
This option may not be available on all recorders.

Archive files.

Timeline: Allows you to jump forwards or backwards in time. The
timeline moves left (oldest video) to right (newest video). Click a
location on it for where you want playback to start.

In 24-hour/All-day playback the cursor shows the actual time. In
search playback, the cursor is a ball.

Reverse play the recording. Click again to pause.

Figure 1: Playback control toolbar

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