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7. PTZ Control
The digital video/audio recorder supports a variety of PTZ cameras. The user can easily control the
PTZ cameras through the operations described in this Chapter if the PTZ cameras have been
connected and setup correctly. Please refer to Section 3.2 Optional Connections for the connections.
Please refer to Section 6.1 Pre-Camera Setup to set the PTZ ID of each PTZ camera and Section 6.9
RS-232/422/485 Setup to setup the control port.
If a camera is also a PTZ camera, there will be an asterisk (*) preceding its title in its video window
in quad display. Please press PTZ button to enter PTZ control mode if the focus camera is a PTZ
camera. The asterisk (*) will be blinked to indicate that the camera is now in PTZ control mode.
In PTZ control mode, the user’s operations can be divided into general operations and miscellaneous
function specific operations and are described as the followings:
General operations:
 PTZ
Press this button to exit PTZ control mode. The asterisk (*) will be changed back to normal
 ▲▼
Press these buttons to tilt the camera up/down.
 ◄►
Press these buttons to pan the camera left/right.
 ZOOM ( ) +/-
Press these buttons to zoom in/out the camera.
 GOTO
Press this button to move the camera to the preset position. The keypad hint will be shown.
Press numeric buttons 0-9 to enter the number of the preset position to move the camera to.
The range of the preset positions is 00-99.
 NEXT
Press this button for the next miscellaneous function. The miscellaneous functions include Focus,
Iris, Auto PAN, SEQ, Preset and Pan Speed. The active one will be shown on the lower right
corner of the screen. The miscellaneous function specific operations are described in the
following table.