Setting The Camera Image And Audio; Camera Setting Menu; Common Tab - Sony SNC-M1 User Manual

Setting the Camera
Image and Audio

— Camera setting Menu

When you click Camera on the Administrator menu,
the Camera setting menu appears.
Use this menu to set the functions of the camera.
The Camera setting menu consists of four tabs:
Common, MPEG4, JPEG and Reset.

Common Tab

Video mode
Select the output format of the camera image.
MPEG4 or JPEG can be selected.
Image size
You can select the image size sent from the network
camera.
640 × 480 (VGA), 320 × 240 (QVGA), or 160 × 120
(QQVGA) can be selected.
Cropping
When the image size is set to 640 × 480 (VGA), you can
crop a portion of the image and display the cropped
image on the computer. With the cropping, the
transmitting data size, and thus, the network load is
reduced and a higher frame rate is obtained.
Select On for cropping the image, or Off for no
cropping.
Note
When Cropping is set to On, Motion detection function
does not work.
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Setting the Camera Image and Audio — Camera setting Menu
To crop an image
1
Set the Image size to 640 × 480(VGA).
The Cropping is displayed.
2
Set the Cropping to On and click the Area setting
button.
The cropping area frame in the "Area setting"
display appears.
3
Specify the cropping area.
Click and drag the cropping area frame to move it
or change the size of it. The frame indicates the
cropping area.
Cropping area frame
4
Click OK at the bottom of the window.
The cropped image is displayed on the main viewer.
5
To close the image, click
corner.
Flickerless mode
If the image is flickering by the fluorescent light, select
On to reduce it.
Note
This mode is available only for CE model.
Sharpness
Select the sharpness in 7 steps, from –3 to 3.
Selecting 3 gives the image with the highest sharpness.
Microphone
Select whether you send the audio from the built-in
microphone or from the m microphone input connector.
Select On to send the audio from this network camera.
Mic volume
Set the volume level of the audio input from the built-in
microphone or the m microphone input connectors. It is
adjustable from –10 to +10.
in the upper-right