Panasonic WJ-ND200 User Manual

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HDD Viewer

Operating Instructions

Model No. WJ-ND200

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Features

The HDD viewer (Hard Disk Drive Viewer) is the software that can play recorded images on the removable hard disk
drive (that is removed from the WJ-ND200 and connected to a PC).
By using this software, playback of recorded images searched using the search filters (such as the time and date fil­ter), saving and printing of the paused playback image are also available.
When the removable hard disk drive is needed to be checked, the removable hard disk drive can be checked using
this software.

Note:

Refer to the installation guide or the operating instructions (PDF) for how to remove the hard disk drive from the

WJ-ND200.

About copyright and license

This software can be distributed and used only if you agree to the copyright and license agreement of this software.
Distributing, copying, disassembling, reverse compiling, reverse engineering, and also exporting in violation of export
laws of the software provided with this product are expressly prohibited.

MPEG-4 Visual patent portfolio license

This product is licensed under the MPEG-4 Visual patent portfolio license for the personal and non-commercial use
of a consumer for (i) encoding video in compliance with the MPEG-4 Visual Standard ("MPEG-4 Video") and/or (ii)
decoding MPEG-4 Video that was encoded by a consumer engaged in a personal and non-commercial activity
and/or was obtained from a video provider licensed by MPEG LA to provide MPEG-4 Video. No license is granted or
shall be implied for any other use. Additional information including that relating to promotional, internal and commer­cial uses and licensing may be obtained from MPEG LA, LLC. See http://www.mpegla.com.

WJ-ND200

Remove the removable hard disk drive.

Optional interface cable
(USB-SATA cable)

Connect the removed hard
disk drive with the PC.

Removed hard disk drive

PC in which this software is installed

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Trademarks and registered trademarks

• Adobe and Reader are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United
States and/or other countries.

• Microsoft, Windows, Internet Explorer, and ActiveX are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft
Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.

• Other names of companies and products contained in these operating instructions may be trademarks or regis­tered trademarks of their respective owners.

Abbreviations

The following abbreviations are used in these operating instructions.
Microsoft®Windows®2000 Professional Service Pack 4 is described as Windows 2000.
Microsoft®Windows®XP Professional SP2 and Microsoft®Windows®XP Home Edition SP2 are described as
Windows XP.

System requirements for a PC

It is recommended to operate this software using a PC that meets the following system requirements. If using a PC
that does not meet the following system requirements, it may cause problems such as slow imaging or this software
becomes inoperable.

OS Microsoft®Windows®2000 Professional SP4

Microsoft®Windows®XP Professional SP2

Microsoft®Windows®XP Home Edition SP2
OS Language English, French, Spanish, German, Italian
CPU Pentium®4 3.0 GHz or faster
Memory 512 MB or more
Monitor 1 024 x 768 pixels or more, 24-bit True color or better
Interface USB port (USB 2.0 compliant)
Required hard disk drive space 200 MB or more
Other CD-ROM drive: It is necessary to read the operating instructions and use the

software on the provided CD-ROM.

Adobe®Reader: It is necessary to read the operating instructions on the pro-

vided CD-ROM.

Notes:

• This software must be installed or started by the administrator. Otherwise, any problems will not be covered by
the warranty.

• In these operating instructions, the settings are performed on Windows XP as examples.

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CONTENTS

Limitation of Liability .................................................................................................................. 2

Disclaimer of Warranty .............................................................................................................. 2

Features .................................................................................................................................... 3

About copyright and license ................................................................................................... 3

Trademarks and registered trademarks ................................................................................. 4

Abbreviations .......................................................................................................................... 4

System requirements for a PC ............................................................................................... 4

Installing This Software ............................................................................................................. 6

Uninstalling This Software ......................................................................................................... 7

Connect the Removed Hard Disk Drive with the PC ................................................................. 8

Start the Software ...................................................................................................................... 9

About the Operation Window .....................................................................................................10

Operations Flow ......................................................................................................................... 11

Search and Play Recording Event ............................................................................................. 15

About filtering .......................................................................................................................... 15

About displaying the recording event list window ................................................................... 15

How to operate ....................................................................................................................... 16

Save the Displayed Paused Playback Image ............................................................................ 18

Print the Displayed Paused Playback Image ............................................................................. 19

Check the Removal Hard Disk Drive ......................................................................................... 20

Troubleshooting ......................................................................................................................... 21

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Installing This Software

Install this software as follows.

Step 1

Insert the provided CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive on the PC.

Step 2

Double click "hdvsetup.exe" in the "HDD Viewer" folder.
The confirmation window will be displayed.

Step 3

Click the "OK" button and follow the installation wizard to install this software.
The "HDD Viewer" folder will be created (C:\Program Files\Panasonic\WJ-ND200\HDD Viewer) and the necessary
files will be copied in it.

When installation is complete, the application will be added to "Programs" in "Start" and the shortcut will be created
on the desktop.

Important:

Do not edit, remove, or move the directory path of the files above. Otherwise, this software may not function
properly.

Note:

When re-installing this software is needed, the existing software must be uninstalled first.

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Uninstalling This Software

If required, uninstall this software as follows.

Step 1

Open "Add or Remove Programs" in "Control Panel".
The "Add or Remove Programs" window will be displayed.

Step 2

Select "HDD Viewer" and click the "Remove" button.

Step 3

Follow the uninstall wizard.

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Connect the Removed Hard Disk Drive with the PC

Connect the removed hard disk with the PC in which this software is installed as follows.

Step 1

Remove the removal hard disk drive from the WJ-ND200.

Note:

Refer to the installation guide or the operating instructions (PDF) of the WJ-ND200 for how to remove the remov­able hard disk drive.

Step 2

Connect the removed hard disk drive and the PC in which this software is installed using an optional interface cable.

Note:

Contact your dealer about the interface cable to be used to connect the removable hard disk drive and the PC.

Step 3

Check if the connected hard disk drive is displayed in "My Computer".

Important:

The connected hard disk drive will be displayed as "Local Disk (*:)".
("*" varies depending on the system configuration of the PC.)
Do not perform the following operations on this local drive.
Otherwise, this hard disk drive may become inoperable on both the WJ-ND200 and the viewer software.

• Deletion of folders and files

• Move of directories of folders and files

• Edit of folders and files (contents, attributes, etc.)

• Defragmentation

• Formatting

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Start the Software

Start the software as follows.

Screenshot 1

Start operation just after the PC is started up.

Step 1

Select "HDD Viewer" from the "Start" menu ("Start" - "All
Programs" - "Panasonic" - "WJ-ND200" - "HDD Viewer")
or double click the shortcut icon of "HDD Viewer" on the
desktop.
→ The software will start up.

Important:

Log in to the PC as an administrator before starting
the software.

Screenshot 2

The operation window will be displayed.

Step 2

Click the [HDD select] button, and then select the
removal hard disk drive connected with the PC dis­played as "Local Disk (*:)" under "My Computer".

Note:

"*" varies depending on the system configuration of
the PC.

Step 3

Close the window by clicking the button at the top
right of the window to exit the software.

Important:

• When using Windows®XP Professional or Home
Edition SP2, it may be possible that the "Windows
Security Alert" window is displayed. In this case,
click the "Unblock" button on the displayed
"Windows Security Alert" window.

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About the Operation Window

Tool bar

(Status display area): Indicates the cur-

rent playback status.

[Search] button: Click this button to start searching

recording events to be played.

[Save] button: Click this button to save the current­ly displayed paused playback image.
(This button works only when the paused playback
image is displayed. It doesn’t work when the save
button is displayed as .)

[Print] button: Click this button to print the currently
displayed paused playback image using a printer
connected with the PC.
(This button works only when the paused playback
image is displayed. It doesn’t work when the print
button is displayed as .)

[HDD select] button (Open button): Click this but­ton to select the connected removal hard disk drive.
The path of the selected removable hard disk drive
will be displayed on the left side of the HDD select
button (HDD path display area).

[HDD check] button: Click this button to start the
HDD check.

Recording event list

A list of recording events will be displayed.

Playback image display area

Playback images will be displayed in this area.
Various playback functions are available using the but­tons located below the playback image display area.
The current playback point will be indicated by the point­er on the slider.

Tool bar

Recording event list

Playback
image dis­play area

Playback operation buttons

Print the Displayed
Paused Playback Image
(☞ page 19)

Play recorded images
on the removal hard
disk drive (☞ page 13)

Select the connected
removal hard disk drive
(☞ page 12)

Check the Removal
Hard Disk Drive
(☞ page 20)

Seach and Play Record­ing Event (☞ page 15)

Save the Displayed
Paused Playback Image
(☞ page 18)

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Operations Flow

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Select the connected removal hard disk drive

Screenshot 1

Start operation from the operation window displayed just
after this software is started.

Step 1

Click the [HDD select] button.

Screenshot 2

The "Browse for Folder" window will be displayed.

Step 2

Click the [HDD select] button, and then select the
removal hard disk drive connected with the PC dis­played as "Local Disk (*:)" under "My Computer".

Note:

"*" varies depending on the system configuration of
the PC.

→ The path of the selected removable hard disk drive

will be displayed in the HDD path display area on
the tool bar.

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Play recorded images on the removal hard disk drive

Screenshot 1

Start operation from the operation window after select-

ing the connected removable hard disk drive.

Step 1

Click the [PLAY] button.

→ Playback of recorded images will start. will be

displayed in the status display area.

Notes:

• The pointer on the slider will indicate the current
playback point.

• When playback is started by selecting a recording
event listed in the search result, the selected record­ing event in the search result list will remain selected
even when playback of the next recording event
starts. (The recording event currently being played
will not be highlighted in the search result list if it is
not the selected recording event from the search
result list.)

Descriptions of the playback operation buttons

REV PLAY

Pausing

Frame play/reverse
frame play

• Reverse playback will start.

• Playback will be stopped when this button is clicked during

playback.

• The frame display and the reverse frame display are available
only during playback or pause.

• When the [NEXT IMAGE] button is clicked, the next frame is
played and paused.

• When the [PREV IMAGE] button is clicked, the previous frame
is played and paused.

Note:

When the image currently being played is in MPEG-4 format,
some frames of recorded images will not be displayed.
Reverse frame play will be performed with the set refresh
interval of the camera.

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Fast playback/fast
reverse playback

• Playback speed will be changed in the following order each
time the [FF] button is clicked: Step2 (Approx. 4x) → Step3
(Approx. 8x) → Step4 (Approx. 16x) →
Step5 (Approx. 32x) → Step6 (Approx. 48x) →
Step7 (Approx. 96x)

• Reverse playback speed will be changed in the following
order each time the [REW] button is clicked:
Step2 (Approx. 4x) → Step3 (Approx. 8x) →
Step4 (Approx. 16x) → Step5 (Approx. 32x) →
Step6 (Approx. 48x) → Step7 (Approx. 96x)

• When the [PLAY] button or the [REV PLAY] button is clicked
during fast playback/fast reverse playback, playback speed
will return to the normal playback speed.

Note:

When the image currently being played is in MPEG-4 format,
some frames of recorded images will not be displayed.
Fast playback/fast reverse playback will be performed with the
set refresh interval of the camera.

Skip/reverse skip

Slider

• When the [NEXT RECORD] button is clicked, playback is
skipped to the recorded image of the next event.

• When the [PREV RECORD] button is clicked, playback is
skipped to the recorded image of the previous event.

• When there is no recorded image to be skipped to, the current
playback will continue, but the playback may start from a point
around a minute before the last playback point.

• The current playback point will be indicated by the pointer on
the slider. It is possible to move the playback point to the
desired point by moving the pointer during playback. (The
playback image at the moved point will be paused.)
Click the [PLAY] button to start playback from the moved
point.

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Search and Play Recording Event

Search for a recording event and play it (recording event search).
Recording events can be searched by filtering as follows.

About filtering

Conditions for How to search
filtering

DATE Designate a time period and search images recorded in the designated period to play.

Event Searches for images from the selected recording mode only. The following recording modes

can be selected.
Manual: Manual recording (☞ Operating instructions (PDF))
Schedule: Schedule recording (☞ Setup instructions (PDF))
Emergency: Emergency recording (☞ Setup instructions (PDF))
Site alarm: Recording at a site alarm occurrence (☞ Operating instructions (PDF))
Terminal alarm: Recording at a terminal alarm occurrence (☞ Operating instructions (PDF))
Command alarm: Recording at a command alarm occurrence (☞ Operating instructions

(PDF))

SD memory: SD memory data (☞ Setup instructions (PDF))

Camera Searches for images from the selected camera channel.

About displaying the recording event list window

Number of the listed data

Number of the listed data: The total number of the list-

ed data will be displayed.

[All List] button: Cancels filtering and lists all recording

events.

[Prev Page] button: Displays the previous page of the

list.

[Next Page] button: Displays the next page of the list.
Time & Date: Start time of recording will be displayed.
CH: A camera channel currently used for recording will

be displayed. Recorded images of the displayed
camera channel will be played on a single screen.

REC: Recording mode will be displayed.

MAN: Manual Recording
SCH: Schedule recording
EMR: Emergency recording
TRM: Recording at a terminal alarm occurrence
COM: Recording at a command alarm occurrence
CAM: Site alarm
PRE: Pre-event recording
SD: SD memory data

Note:

When the [All List] button is clicked during playback,
playback will stop and the filtering will be canceled.

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How to operate

Screenshot 1

Click the [Search] button. The "REC Event Search" win­dow is displayed.

Step 1

Select searching conditions.

"Time & Date"

Filter by time and date. Select a start time and an end
time by clicking the [i] button.

"REC Events"

Filter by recording event. Check the radio button of the
desired recording event to be displayed when filtering
by recording events.

"Camera"

Filter by camera channel. Check the radio button of the
desired camera channel to be searched for.

Step 2

Click the [OK] button.

→ will be displayed in the status display area,

and then the filtered result will be displayed.

Note:

Click the [All List] button to cancel the filtering.

will go off and all recording events will be

listed.

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Screenshot 2

The search results (recording event list) will be dis­played.

Step 3

Click the time of the desired recording event.

→ Play a recorded image of the recording event from

the selected time.

Note:

Playback of SD memory data
When a recorded image of the recording event con­tains not many frames to play smoothly, a black
screen may be displayed or it may take time to
refresh images. In this case, display the image with
frame playback/reverse frame playback.

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Save the Displayed Paused Playback Image

Saving the displayed image as a jpeg file (extension: jpg) is available only when the image is paused.

Screenshot 1

Start operation when playing the images.

Step 1

Click the [PAUSE] button.

Step 2

Click the [Save] button.

Screenshot 2

The "Save As" window will be displayed.

Step 3

Enter the file name and select "JPG (*.jpg)" for "Save as
type".

Step 4

Designate the folder and click the [Save] button.

→ The image data will be saved.

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Print the Displayed Paused Playback Image

Print the paused image as follows.

Screenshot 1

Start operation when playing the images.

Step 1

Click the [PAUSE] button.

Step 2

Click the [Print] button.

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Check the Removal Hard Disk Drive

When it is necessary to check the removable hard disk drive, do as follows.
When the removable hard disk drive is to be removed and stored for a long time, check it using this function on a
monthly basis as maintenance.

Screenshot 1

Start operation from the operation window after select­ing the connected removable hard disk drive.

Step 1

Click the [HDD check] button.

Screenshot 2

The confirmation window will be displayed.

Step 2

Click the [OK] button.

→ The HDD check will start.

Important:

• It will take for around 2 hours to complete the HDD
check if the disk size is 120 GB.

• When an error occurs during the HDD check, the
error notification window will be displayed and the
HDD check will stop. In this case, contact your deal­er.

• Do not disconnect the removable hard disk drive
during the HDD check. When the hard disk drive is
removed in the process of the HDD check, the hard
disk may be damaged or an error may occur in the
PC. When an error occurred in the PC, reboot the
PC.

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Cause/solution

• Is ActiveX control installed? Make sure that ActiveX
control is installed on the PC in use.

• Has the connected removable hard disk been used
for recording on the WJ-ND200?

• Is the removable hard disk drive connected correctly
and firmly?

• Is the recommended interface cable used to connect
between the PC and the removable hard disk drive?
Contact your dealer about the interface cable to be
used to connect the removable hard disk drive and
the PC.

Troubleshooting

Before asking for repairs, check the symptoms with the following table.

Contact your dealer if a problem cannot be solved even after checking and trying the solution or if the problem is not
described below.

Reference

page

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Symptom

The connected removable
hard disk drive is not recog­nized.

No data is displayed in the
recording event list.

Cannot display the opera­tion window.

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