Swann PRO-660 User's Manual
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1. g et a E A LO gt J PRO SERIES 4 Advanced Features On Screen Display About the OSD So you ve got one or more of Swann s range of PRO cameras and you want to use some of the advanced features Good call It may seem a little tricky at first but it s pretty easy once you re up and running You can adjust almost any aspect of how the camera captures images If you ve got experience in photography or video making then many of the camera s functions are things you ll be familiar with If you don t know much about cameras and optics don t worry there s nothing you can do in the OSD which can actually damage the camera If it does all go wrong you can use the Reset to Factory Default option to set everything back to the default automatic settings Contents About the OSD 2 TheRS485 Controller 3 Connection Guide 4 Menu Structure 6 Setup Main Menu 7 Setup Menu Continued 8 Exposure Menu 9 DWDR Menu 10 Special Menu 11 Motion Menu 12 Image Adjustment Menu 13 Inage Adjustment Menu Continued 14 CRT Adjustment Menu 15 LCD Adjustment Menu 16 Backlight Compensation Menu BLC 17 Highlight Compensation Menu HLC 18 Manual White Balance Menu 19 Technical Support 20 The RS485 Controller Quick Adjust Quick Adjust Arrow Buttons Main Menu The arrows are used to navigate through the main menu Quick Contig Save Quick Config Using the Quick Configuration The2. Quick Config button will give you instant access to the following settings 1 DYNAMIC Digital Wide Dynamic Range DWDR page 10 CONTRAST page 14 SHARPNESS page 14 BRIGHTNESS page 9 AUTO BW AT NIGHT When disabled the camera will attempt to create color images at night This can result in increased color information at the cost of image quality e These settings are exactly the same as the ones in the Main Menu e Cycle through these settings by pressing the Quick Config button repeatedly e The Quick Adjust buttons will change the setting you ve currently selected e To confirm a change and exit the Quick Configuration screen click Save Quick Config OM KR WN Connecting the OSD Controller The two connections RS485 and DC 12V are located on the bottom of the controller Use the supplied RS485 jack and power splitter to connect the controller A complete connection diagram is located on pages 4 5 C 12V In RS485 Port 3 Connection Guide 1 Connect the DC in plug on the camera cable to the DC out pin on the end of the extension cable 2 Connect the BNC connector on the camera cable to the BNC connector on the extension cable 3 Plug the green RS485 plug on the end of the camera cable to the RS485 port on the extension cable You may need to connect the two wires to the RS485 plug See insert above right 4 Plug the RS485 connector on the far end of the extension cable
3. into the PTZ controller As with step 3 the plug may have to be connected to the wire terminals 5 Connect the BNC Output on the end of the extension cable to your video monitoring recording device typically a DVR 6 Connect one output from the power splitter to the DC in plug on the end of the extension cable 7 Connect the other output of the power splitter to the DC in plug on the OSD controller 8 Connect the power splitters DC in plug to the DC output jack on the power adapter and connect the power adapter to a wall socket Attaching the RS485 Plug 1 Using a small flat blade screwdriver loosen the two screws 2 Observing the adjacent diagram insert the PURPLE RED wire into the LEFT UPPER port and tighten the screw so that it is held securely 3 Repeat with the GREY BLACK wire into the RIGHT LOWER port Menu Structure Shutter Brightness AGC DWDR Cam Title 7 Font Color Image Adj Display White Balance WB Manual Backlight HLC Factory Default Setup Main Menu IE 5p es fe F tins iS ti t Exposure Controls how sensitive the camera will be to light Press SELECT to enter the Exposure sub menu page 9 to access the detailed exposure controls Note As the cameras have fixed iris lenses control over exposure is determined by the electronic shutter that is how long each frame is exposed for Unlike manually altering an tris this setting will have no effect
4. on your depth of field how much of your image Is in focus Special Accesses the Special submenu where many of the unique features of the OSD can be found such as options to set the camera s on screen Title adjusting the way the camera responds to Motion and allows you to access the detailed Image Adjustment submenu For more information see the Special Menu section on page 11 White Balance Controls how the camera interprets and displays colors There are a few settings which are as follows AW 1 Automatic White Balance 1 The default setting which will attempt to create as neutral a white balance as possible Colors tend to be slightly underexposed but represented quite accurately The color of the light will have less of an effect on how the camera perceives color AW2 Automatic White Balance 2 The other automatic option for white balance control Rather than attempting to automatically correct for the hue of the light technically known as the color temperature the camera attempts to accurately represent what it can see as the human eye would perceive the same scenario As a result images captured under daylight will seem slightly blue whereas images captured under artificial lighting will be tinted yellow for tungsten filaments or green for many fluorescent tubes 7 Setup Menu Continued AWC gt SET Allows you to create a custom white balance You ll need a sheet of thick white card paper Hold t
5. placement but will simply not register activities Disabling an area will have no effect on other motion sensitive areas it happens to overlap HEIGHT How high the area you re editing will be LEFT RIGHT Where the area you re editing will be located along the horizontal axis TOP BOTTOM Where the area you re editing will be located along the vertical axis 17 LEVEL Sets when highlights will be masked The lower the value the lower the required luminance value will be for the camera to mask it and thus the more areas of the screen will be masked MODE You can choose when HLC will be active ALL DAY will leave HLC on at all times whereas selecting NIGHT ONLY will leave highlights during the day unaffected this is a good option if you re looking to mask for example car headlights or an inconveniently placed street lamp 18 Manual White Balance Menu A z i _ gt LOlR TEMP LNDOOR i f II Maie twi al On fs he LY Ly j pa COLOR TEMP Color temperature technically measured in degrees kelvin is a measurement of the average wavelength of light being photographed Artificial lights particularly older style tugnsten bulbs have a low color temperature somewhere between 3000 K and 3500 K and this appears to be an orange yellow color The INDOOR setting will compensate for this allowing the camera to more accurately represent color despite the yellow light Sunlight on a clear day has a high
6. random grainy speckles that appear in images When should you decrease increase the gain Well probably never The MIDDLE gain control is reliable and quite accurate Only in the event of extremely unusual lighting conditions or a very non standard monitor television should the automatic gain control be adjusted DWDR Menu DWDR Digital Wide Dynamic Range Menu You can change and set the way that the camera captures and represents different lighting conditions LEVEL The higher you set the LEVEL the more dynamic your images can be It works by changing how the camera interprets data from the CCD the actual image sensor If this setting is low then bright areas will have a tendency to white out while shadows will do the opposite and black out The higher you set the DWDR then the more the camera will attempt to compensate for this and you should get more detail in dynamic lighting scenarios In some cases setting the DWDR Level too high can degrade the quality of your images as the camera may try overcompensating when it doesn t need to 10 Special Menu CAM TITLE You can give your camera a name if you d like to There s no requirement to do so but it can make identifying which video feed you re viewing on a multiple camera setup easy to determine at a glance It s also kind of nice to feel like the camera is your friend MOTION The camera is able to detect motion and to highlight the areas
7. where motion is detected For more information see page 12 PRIVACY You can apply a privacy mask to any area of the screen you choose Selecting this option will open the PRIVACY sub menu where you ll be able to configure how and where the privacy mask will be applied Remember if you apply a privacy mask in camera and then record the images the images will always have the privacy mask superimposed you won t be able to remove it A better option is to apply a privacy setting on your DVR if your DVR Supports It The Swann DVR 2600 series and the DVR 2550 series support privacy masking 11 AREA SELECT Choose which areas of the camera view that you d like to configure You can have up to four areas defined and active simultaneously which can overlap or be quite discrete AREA STATE Whether the area has motion detection enabled or not A disabled area retains its border definitions size and placement but will simply not register activities Disabling an area will have no effect on other motion sensitive areas it happens to overlap HEIGHT How high the area you re editing will be LEFT RIGHT Where the area you re editing will be located along the horizontal axis TOP BOTTOM Where the area you re editing will be located along the vertical axis DEGREE The amount of motion that needs to be detected before the camera will register it as motion The higher the setting the more motion needs to occur before the came
8. against defects in workmanship and material for a period of one I year from it s original purchase date You must present your receipt as proof of date of purchase for warranty validation Any unit which proves defective during the stated period will be repaired without charge for parts or labour or replaced at the sole discretion of Swann The end user is responsible for all freight charges incurred to send the product to Swann s repair centres The end user is responsible for all shipping costs incurred when shipping from and to any country other than the country of origin The warranty does not cover any incidental accidental or consequential damages arising from the use of or the inability to use this product Any costs associated with the fitting or removal of this product by a tradesman or other person or any other costs associated with its use are the responsibility of the end user This warranty applies to the original purchaser of the product only and is not transferable to any third party Unauthorized end user or third party modifications to any component or evidence of misuse or abuse of the device will render all warranties void By law some countries do not allow limitations on certain exclusions in this warranty Where applicable by local laws regulations and legal rights will take precedence Swann Swann Communications 201 FCC Verification This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for Cla
9. ecommend not using this setting you can always invert the color later anyway However sometimes particularly monitoring video feeds with low contrast the negative image function can make details more apparent to the eye 14 CRT Adjustment Menu PED LEVEL Altering the PED level will slightly alter the output voltage of the composite video out altering the way that a CRT monitor will build images by combining the red green and blue pixels on screen Higher values will give brighter images particularly in darker areas of greyscale This is an expert feature we d recommend not touching it unless you know exactly what you re doing COLOR GAIN The amount of color in the video signal As different televisions and monitors have different native saturation levels LCDs are typically less saturated than a CRT for example you might need to adjust the level here to get natural looking images Remember you don t need rich vivid images for the purposes of security footage sometimes lowering the saturation creates a sharper image which might be more useful for identifying fine details or recognising individuals 15 LCD Adjustment Menu GAMMA Allows you to fine tune the gamma reproduction curve of your monitor This is an expert feature and intended for advanced users only If you want to make adjustments to your images we suggest using the Image Adjustment menu and the options located therein the vast majority of ou
10. er color temperature about 5600 K and appears slightly blue The OUTDOOR setting will accurately represent colors under these conditions BLUE RED You can make alterations to the color mix here Changing these values directly alters the mix of RED GREEN and BLUE in your signal The lower the values the less of these colors you will have and of course the inverse is true There is no direct way to control the amount of green in your signal however it is easy to do To increase the amount of green decrease the amount of red and blue To decrease the amount of green increase both the red and blue channels 19 Swann Technical Support All Countries E mail tech swannsecurity com Telephone Helpdesk USA toll free AUSTRALIA toll free 800 627 2799 1300 138 324 Su 2pm l pm US PT M 9am 5pm AUS ET M Th 6am O0pm US PT Tu F lam 5pm AUS ET F 6am 2pm US PT Sa lam 9am AUS ET USA Exchange amp Repairs NEW ZEALAND toll free 800 627 2799 Option 0800 479 266 M F 9am 5pm US PT UK 0203 027 0979 See http www worldtimeserver com for information on time zones and the current time in Melbourne Australia compared to your local time Swann Communications USA Inc Swann Communications Swann Communications LTD 2636 Clark Street Unit 13 331 Ingles Street Stag Gates House Santa Fe Springs CA 90670 Port Melbourne Vic 3207 63 64 The Avenue USA SOI7IXS United Kingdom Swann Communications warrants this product
11. he paper in front of the camera so that it covers just over half the viewing area If you are using a camera with a vari focal lens such as the PRO 680 681 adjust the focus so that the piece of paper s edge is sharp and clear Then press SELECT The camera will use the white card paper to ascertain the color of the light and will adjust itself accordingly Manual Click SELECT to open the Manual White Balance control menu Here you ll be able to have full control of how the camera determines color For a rundown of the Manual White Balance Control menu see page 19 Backlight Controls what part of your images the camera will try and properly represent and how it responds to really bright lights OFF The default setting The camera will try and expose the whole scene evenly This may cause some areas to black out under expose or white out Over expose BLC Backlight Compensation The camera will try to expose things in the foreground properly even if this means that the background will over expose white out Press SELECT to open the BLC Menu where you can fine tune how the camera responds to backlighting HLC Highlight Compensation Places a black mask over extreme highlights in your images It can be useful to block out for example a bright window during the day or car headlights at night Press SELECT to open the HLC menu to control how and when highlight masking will occur Reset Possibly the most important menu item of t
12. hem all If you find that the camera is behaving strangely then chances are something has been set amiss F Aa j AUTO NES From the EXPOSURE menu you can control how the camera reacts to lighting conditions SHUTTER This setting controls the behaviour of the electronic shutter In a nutshell it controls how long the camera will expose each frame The longer that the electronic shutter is open the more light it will let in We recommend leaving this on AUTO this will adjust the shutter speed automatically Only on rare occasions will AUTO not prove the best option however these are so infrequent as to be almost unmentionable BRIGHTNESS How light dark the images coming from the camera will be Unlike the SHUTTER setting this won t affect how much light the camera needs to see to create a high quality image Rather it affects how the camera processes the images once they ve been captured Increasing the BRIGHTNESS setting can be useful if you have an unusually dark monitor television or are trying to view images in a very bright environment Typically the default value is fine unless you have specific problems you re trying to overcome AGC Automatic Gain Control Gain is a fancy term for amplifying a video signal It works in a similar way to amplifying music the higher the gain the louder brighter your images will be but so will the background noise in video terms noise refers to the
13. ng at it in a mirror 13 e Adjustment Menu Continued FONT COLOR What colors the on screen text will be There are fifteen options the default white is 3 The text will always have a black border CONTRAST Controls the dynamic range of the camera s output The higher the contrast the greater the difference between the blackest black and the whitest white will be Note that this setting will have no bearing on how the camera actually captures images in situations with harsh lighting Also setting the contrast too high will degrade the quality of your images and introduce digital noise and grain into your images SHARPNESS How crisp your images will be Setting the sharpness too high will make your pictures look pixilated like old computer graphics On the other hand setting the sharpness too low will make everything look soft and blurry a bit like looking through lightly frosted glass DISPLAY Here you can customise the camera s output specifically for the type of monitoring device you have connected For old school televisions or bulky computer monitors choose CRT For more modern screens LCD is typically the best choice If you are using an unusual type of monitor such as OLED or plasma you ll probably have to experiment to see what works best on your screen NEG IMAGE Negative Image Reverses the colors and luminance of the image So white becomes black black becomes white and so on We would generally r
14. ra will highlight it VIEW Whether or not the area will be visible when motion is detected 12 e Adjustment Menu IMAGE Abd NS SHAD lt OPP m 7 Sca ta AS 1 mS fol A T p Si oe F 1 Eaj Sl j aa N F L l Le me p MII a ty joa la L i A i i Ei OED A ill aos es br Je T jo i Wiz IMAGE ADJ The Image Adjustment menu allows you to control many aspects of the camera s pictures LENS SHAD If your lens is exposed to direct light the LENS SHADE option can improve the quality of your images When this is ON the camera will automatically adjust the content of your images to remove as much as possible of the direct light Note The Lens Shading feature is a quick fix and won t completely correct for direct light entering the lens Of course the best way to improve the quality of your images is to ensure that light from an intense source such as the sun doesn t enter the lens directly 2DNR Second Level Digital Noise Reduction DNR is a process whereby the camera is able to improve the quality of your video images if they appear noisy The camera employs a noise reduction algorithm all the time it s a standard feature of these cameras and others like them this option doubles the amount of noise reduction MIRROR Flips the image horizontally like looki
15. ss B digital device pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions may cause harmful interference to radio or television reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna Increase the separation between the equipment and the receiver Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected Consult the dealer or an experienced radio TV technician for help WARNING Modifications not approved by the party responsible for compliance could void user s authority to operate the equipment
16. tcomes achievable by using the GAMMA adjustment setting here can also be achieved more easily and accurately by tweaking the Brightness and Contrast settings on the ProcAmp PED LEVEL Altering the PED level will slightly alter the output voltage of the composite video out altering the way that an LCD monitor will build images by combining the red green and blue sub pixels on screen Higher values will give brighter images particularly in darker areas of greyscale This is an expert feature we d recommend not touching it unless you know exactly what you re doing COLOR GAIN The amount of color in the video signal As different televisions and monitors have different native saturation levels LCDs are typically less saturated than a CRT for example you might need to adjust the level here to get natural looking images Remember you don t need rich vivid images for the purposes of security footage sometimes lowering the saturation creates a sharper image which might be more useful for identifying fine details or recognizing individuals 16 A preme LE ITR ie in rd g ad C y T nNoaqQoce t AREA SELECT Choose which areas of the camera view that you d like to configure You can have up to four areas defined and active simultaneously which can overlap or be quite discrete AREA STATE Whether the area has backlight compensation enabled or not A disabled area retains its border definitions size and
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