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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 those 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 split-window 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. Press numeric buttons 00-99
to enter the number of the preset position to move the camera to.
 NEXT
Press this button for the next miscellaneous function. The miscellaneous functions include
Focus, Iris, Auto PAN, SEQ, Preset, and Pan Speed and 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.