User manual

ARECONT VISION USER MANUAL 23
Arecont Vision 425 E Colorado St, 7
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Floor Glendale, CA 91205 8/1/2012
www.arecontvision.com
Toolbar
The toolbar of the AV100 Video System is located in the upper portion of the screen above the video display
area. It contains the following icons:
Toggles a drop-down list of the installed cameras. Individual cameras are disabled / enabled by left
double-clicking on the camera number. When disabled, the live video image from the disabled
camera is replaced with a blue rectangle, and the camera number in the drop-down list is marked
with a red X.
Displays the Settings menu (see the Setting section on page 22).
Enables a full screen display without the toolbar and menus. Press escape or double click the
image to exit full screen mode.
Selects screen layout for viewing live/archived video from multiple cameras. From left to right:
single camera layout, 2x2 camera layout; 3x3 camera layout; 4x4 camera layout; 10-camera
layout with 2 large and 4x2 smaller images; 8-camera layout with 1 large, 3x1 and 1x4 smaller
images; 13-camera layout with 1 large, 2x2 and 4x2 smaller images, 8-camera layout with 2x4
images for panoramic cameras, 10-camera layout with 2 large and 2x4 smaller images for regular
and panoramic cameras. Any unused sections of the layout will be filled with a watermark of the
Arecont Vision logo.
Displays the Archive controls (see Browsing Archives below).
Takes a snapshot of live video or an archive video. The snapshot is taken from the camera which
is highlighted in the drop-down list of the installed cameras (see above). To highlight another
camera, left-click on the camera number in the list. To take the snapshot from all cameras,
highlight “cameras” at the root (top) of the drop-down camera list. The snapshot file names contain
the date and time of the snapshot. To locate/view the snapshots in the snapshot folder, right-click
anywhere on the live video, then select “photo”, “browse”. Alternatively, snapshots can be taken
by right-clicking on the live video image, and then selecting “photo”, “save”. The directory path to