Record Setup Menu - Swann Advanced series Easy Setup Manual

Confi guring DST (Daylight Savings Time) Settings
As the standards for daylight savings diff er from country to country, and often state
to state, you might need to manually tell the DVR exactly when it commences and
ends in your locality. First, turn DST on. We suggest setting the Daylight Saving Time
Mode to Date, and manually entering the dates and times that daylight savings time
applies to and from, in your locality.
NOTE: Some NTP servers are NOT fully compatible with DST. This may cause your system
to double-count adding one or removing one more hour than they should, or cancel
each other out. You may need to intentionally change your time zone to compensate, or
simply not use NTP and DST simultaneously.
Remember to APPLY your changes
Unlike other menu screens on the DVR, the Date and Time menu will not
ask you to confi rm your changes upon exit. Instead, any changes made are
automatically discarded unless the APPLY button is selected.
54 Remember: After making changes to the settings press/click the APPLY button.

Record Setup Menu

Enabling / Disabling Recording: Choose whether the channel you've selected
will be recorded or not here. A channel which is "disabled" will still appear in live
viewing mode, but won't be recorded. This is a "master" setting, and will override the
recording schedule or manual recording modes (i.e. pressing the REC button).
Enabling / Disabling Audio: You can choose whether the associated audio channel
will be recorded. Unless you have an audio device connected that you want to
record, we recommend disabling the audio as this will save a small amount of hard
drive space.
Quality: The "quality" setting determines how much hard drive space the DVR will
use when recording images. The higher the quality, the more detail your images will
contain but you won't be able to store as much on the hard drive. A lower quality
setting means more footage, but will reduce the amount of detail.
Pack Duration: Pack Duration is a measurement of how long the DVR will record
for before splitting the output fi le into discrete units. "Packs" are something like the
scene numbers on a DVD - though the video is broken up into separate units, it will
still play through as one continuous movie (unless interrupted by the schedule or
motion detection turning the recording on or off ). If you don't want to worry about
setting Pack Durations, you can leave it on the default value; it will make little
diff erence to the day-to-day running of the DVR.
Remember: After making changes to the settings press/click the APPLY button. 23