Quantum XTRA Instruction manual

Vista QXTRA quick user guidel V1.0
Quick user guide for QXTRA range of
DVRs
Quantum XTRA –Quick User manual

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CE Information
The product must be installed according to the currently valid installation regulations
for EMC to guarantee the designed use and to prevent EMC problems.
The device supplied with this manual is according to the EC, EMC Directive,
2004/108/EC & LVD 2006/95/EC
Standard used for showing compliance with the essential requirements of the device:
EN 55022
EN 61000-3-2
EN 61000-3-3
EN 50130-4
EN 55024
LVD: EN60950-1
Safety Precautions
Caution before Use
Please read this manual before installing or using the DVR.
Please keep this manual in a safe place, to allow for future reference
For the safety and proper use, The DVR is marked with various symbols. Please read these
to prevent injury of financial loss.
Installation Site
Ensure installation position is level, secure and adequately ventilated.
Avoid installing close to sources of humidity or water.
Contact details
Belgium [phone]
Nederland [phone]
Portugal [phone]
South Africa [phone]
Spain [phone]
Middle East [phone]
UK [phone]
Rest of world [phone]

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Contents
OPERATION......................................................................................................................... 6
1. NAVIGATION..................................................................................................................... 6
1-1. Mouse Control.......................................................................................................................................... 6
1-2. Menu Navigation ...................................................................................................................................... 6
2. MONITORING.................................................................................................................... 7
2-1. Live screen OSD Description ................................................................................................................... 7
2-2. Select Channel......................................................................................................................................... 7
2-3. Digital Zoom............................................................................................................................................. 7
3. PLAYBACK ....................................................................................................................... 8
3-1. OSD Description....................................................................................................................................... 8
3-2. Playback Control ...................................................................................................................................... 9
3-3. Playback Search .................................................................................................................................... 10
DATE &TIME,EVENTAND BOOKMARK SEARCH .....................................................................11
Calendar / Date and time searches............................................................................................................... 12
Event Search................................................................................................................................................. 13
Log search..................................................................................................................................................... 14
Bookmark search........................................................................................................................................... 15
GOTO SEARCH OPTION.......................................................................................................16
4.ARCHIVING EVIDENCE TO DVD/CD OR USB .....................................................................17
Time and Date archive................................................................................................................................... 17
Event list archiving......................................................................................................................................... 20
CLIENT VIEWER SOFTWARE ............................................................................................21
1. LIVE MONITORING ...........................................................................................................24
2. REMOTE SEARCH............................................................................................................25
2-1. Search.................................................................................................................................................... 25
2-2. Archive.................................................................................................................................................... 27
INSTALLATION ...................................................................................................................30
1. FRONT PANEL CONTROLS................................................................................................30
2. REAR PANEL CONNECTORS .............................................................................................32
3. REMOTE CONTROL..........................................................................................................34
4. CONNECTION GUIDE........................................................................................................35
5. TURNING ON THE DVR ....................................................................................................37

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Operation
1. Navigation
You can navigate the on screen menus using the front panel buttons, remote controller or
mouse.
1-1. Mouse Control
Right clicking the mouse brings up the following popup menu.
Screen view selection
PAN/Tilt Menu
Search menu
Goto function (only in Search mode)
Setup menu icon
Sequence icon
Eject icon
Emergency record icon (Stop/start toggle)
Playback mode
1-2. Menu Navigation
To enter the Setup menu, the user has to have the required access rights and be logged on.
Press the Menu button or right click with mouse on screen and select the menu icon.
The following screen will be displayed asking for password.
Select the user ID.
Enter the password.
The default password is 00000000(8 zeros).
Press OK, the setup menu will be displayed
on screen.
All menus are navigated around using the Left/
Right/ Up/ Down and the Select button or mouse.
To step back out of the menus, press MENU button
or click the right button of the mouse.

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2. Monitoring
2-1. Live screen OSD Description
The Status Bar on screen shows HDD capacity, network connection, current time, etc.
Archiving in background
- HDD capacity: Used capacity / Total capacity
- Network connection: It is shown that admin or user is connected.
- Mouse connection
~ - Multi-screen Display Buttons
- Current Date/Time
–Click here to temporarily hide the information bar
2-2. Select Channel
Use the Multi-screen display buttons on the status bar to select the display mode.
Example: 9 Channel
Also you can use the DIS button on the remote controller to change the display mode.
Display switches in the following order when the DIS button is pressed.
Single Channel 4 Channel 9 Channel 16 Channel 17 Channel
2-3. Digital Zoom
When the system is in full-screen mode, left click and drag your mouse over the area to be
enlarged a grey rectangle will appear. Left click the mouse to zoom in on the highlighted

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area.
To exit digital zoom, right click the mouse.
3. Playback
Click the right button on the mouse, the popup menu will be displayed on screen.
(Ensure that the PTZ function is turned off –Otherwise Play back mode will not operate)
3-1. OSD Description
The Control Bar on screen shows Playback control buttons, Progress bar, Display mode
buttons, Playback time, etc.
To begin playback, press the
Play button on the popup
menu.

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3-2. Playback Control
Play Forward
When the Play Forward button( ) is pressed, the unit will play forward at the rate the data
was recorded. While in the play mode, the user may change the playback direction, playback
speed. To return to play forward operations, press the Play Forward button( ).
Reverse Play
To begin reverse playback, press the Reverse Play button( ).
Pause
During playback, press the Pause button( ). This feature pauses all full screen and multi-
screen images. To release the pause press the pause button for a second time.
Single Frame Advance
During the pause mode, press the Frame Advance button( ) to view the frame directly after
the frame displayed on screen.
Single Frame Rewind
During the pause mode, press the Frame Rewind button( ) to view the frame directly before
the frame displayed on screen.
Fast Forward
In playback mode, press the Fast Forward button( ) to switch between various fast play
modes such as x2, x4, x8, x16 play.
Fast Backward
In reverse playback mode, press the Fast Backward button( ) to switch between various
reverse play modes such as x2, x4, x8, x16 reverse play.
Stop
To stop playback and return to the live mode, press the Stop button( ).

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3-3. Playback Search
To search within the recorded video, while in play back mode, right click on the screen, the
following menu icon menu will appear,
Cameras Selection
Click the Camera selection icon to display the following box:
Interlace selection
A choice of OFF, D1 or D2 will be offered
OFF –Optimized for resolution, but shows 2 individual fields so can produce juddering on
moving objects.
D1 - Optimized for moving images, with slight reduction in resolution
D2- Optimized for resolution but shows integration artefacts on moving objects
Camera selection
Interlace selection
Date & Time, Event and
Bookmark search
GOTO selection
Main menu
Sequence selection
DVD Eject
Emergency record
Return to live
Full screen camera selection
Quad screen selection
Nine way split selection
Sixteen way split selection

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Click on the Date and time search icon to display the following selection window:
Review screen
Playback of recordings will be displayed in this window, in either full screen or split screen
format, format is chosen using icons below the screen.
Playback time
The time at which the recorded images were made is displayed in this box
Bookmark toggle arrows
Click on the right arrow to display the Bookmark search screen, see Book marks below.
Time
line
Calendar search,
days with recording
shown in blue
Date and Time
selection
Date and Time /
Event search
and log
selection bar
Toggle to
Bookmark
search
Review screen
split selection
Review
screen
Playback
time
Archive button

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Calendar / Date and time searches
Time Line
When a specific date is chosen in the calendar search box, cameras with recordings will be
graphically displayed in the this box,
Blue –Time-lapse recording
Red –Alarm recording
Yellow –Motion recording
Calendar Search
Select the required month using the arrows, days within this month that have recordings
related to them, will be displayed in blue
Time and Date selection
A specific time and date can be chosen; click on the start time, a data entry box will appear,
enter the correct start time and press PLAY.

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Event Search
Click on the Event search selection button the screen below will be displayed.
Event type
Select either motion or alarm events
Time period
Set the start and stop times for the parameters of the search
Camera selection
Select the camera channels that are valid for the search
Start search
Click start search, the search results will be displayed in the table on the right side of the
screen. To play the events, double click on the entry in list
Archiving Events
To Archive, tick the boxes on the right hand side of the list for the required events, then click
the Archive box at the bottom of the list.
Event type
Event search selection
Camera selection
Time period selection
Start search
Move to archive
screen
Archive
selection
tick box

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Log search
The system logs can be accessed and reviewed from the same search screen, click on the
Log search button to display the menu below:
A total of 5000 events can be recorded the oldest being overwritten when a new one occurs,
they can be viewed all together or as individual types.
The log file contains information on the following:
Power : Power on, Power off, Power fail
Record : Rec fail, Rec start, Rec stop, Rec error, Rec full
Operation : Play start, Play stop, HDD format, Menu set
Event : Alarm, Motion, Audio, Video loss, Email fail
Archive : This lists the user, time/date when archive was done, and time range of
archived section.
Select the parameters to be search.
Press the Start Search button, the list will appear in the box on the right
Selecting any event from the list will display it is detail in the Log detail box.
Log
display list
Start search
Log parameter
selection
To export the log,
click the archive
button, this will
display the Archive
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Bookmark search
Using the arrows on the left side of the screen toggle to the Bookmark option, to display the
screen below:
To play the recorded data, double click on the entry in the list.
Bookmark
list
Bookmark
details
Delete all bookmarks

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To operate the GOTO function, while in playback, right click on the screen to display the
following icon option menu:
The following selection bar will appear on screen:
Click on the time and date box, a data entry screen will appear on screen, fill in the desired
Time and date, click ok then click on the GOTO button.
Select the GOTO icon

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4. Archiving Evidence to DVD/CD or USB
Once the required video has been found,it may be necessary to down load it for evidential
purposes. This can be done either onto the internal CD/DVD-R writer or via the USB port.
Archives can be made from a known time and date period or from a list of events.
Time and Date archive
To do this press the Archive icon then follow steps below for a know time and date period:
Device
This allows selection between the internal CD /DVD-R writer and the FLASH option via the
USB port.
Insert media (disc or USB flash drive) and then press Device box.
The media will be automatically recognised by DVR.
Device Format
This is only required when using a USB pen, there is no need to format CDs or DVDs.
Type
Exclusive : If evidence is downloaded as an Exclusive file, the DVR will download
bespoke player software on to the CD / DVD or USB device along with the
evidence. This means that no special software is required, by the reviewing
PC. This format is secure and watermarked.
AVI : The evidence is downloaded as an AVI file, this backup file can be played on
a PC using the well known media player like Windows media player. Only
one camera at a time can be downloaded.
Devices
Device format
Calculate
Archive Size
Transfer
Type
Log
Config
From / To

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Log
The Log file can be downloaded from this menu screen, check the Log box.
Config
The Configuration files for the DVR can be downloaded and saved.
From / To
Click on the select to edit box, the following screen will appear:
Click on add, the following screen will appear:
When selection is complete click OK
The Archive list screen will reappear:
Add button
Enter the
start and stop
time
Select the
camera inputs
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Right click on the list, an “ACCEPT LIST” box will appear, click YES.
The original Archive screen will be displayed:
Click on the Calculate Archive size, to confirm the file will fit on the available media.
Next click on the “Transfer” button, a percentage done, during downloading, will be shown
on the screen. Once the download process has started, it will operate in the background,
while the DVR is being used normally.
NOTE Do not shutdown the DVR during the archiving process.
Ensure the
boxes for any
periods
required are
ticked

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Event list archiving
To create an archive from an list of events, create the list of events as described in the
previous section “Event Search”. At this point the following screen will be displayed:
Once the archive box has been clicked, the original Archive screen will be displayed.
Click on the Calculate Archive size, to confirm the file will fit on the available media.
Next click on the “Transfer” button, a percentage done, during downloading, will be shown
on the screen. Once the download process has started, it will operate in the background,
while the DVR is being used normally.
Tick the boxes of
the events to be
archived.
Click the
“Archive” box