Status/Control (PTZ Camera)

Zooms out. Gives you a wider angle of view. Click and release for small increments, or click and hold to zoom continually.

Zooms in. Gives you a smaller angle of view. Click and release for small increments, or click and hold to zoom continually.

Tilts the camera upward. Click and release for small increments, or click and hold to tilt continually until the camera reaches the mechanical limits.

Tilts the camera downward. Click and release for small increments, or click and hold to tilt continually until the camera reaches the mechanical limits.

Pans the camera left. Click and release for small increments, or click and hold to pan continually until the camera reaches the mechanical limits. Allows for 360° pan.

Tilts the camera downwards. Click and release for small increments, or click and hold to pan continually until the camera reaches the mechanical limits. Allows for 360° pan.

Positional coordinates X=Pan Y=Tilt Z= Zoom. Each coordinate is separated by a space. A set of coordinates of 0 0 0 puts the camera level, facing front, and zoomed fully out.

Copy and paste these coordinates into a Q-SYS Snapshot to create camera presets. In addition, you can select the coordinates and type in the desired position if you know it.

Speed by Zoom button

When engaged, the speed of the pan, tilt and zoom decreases as you zoom closer to give you more control. The speed of the pan, tilt and zoom increases as the angle of view gets wider.

Recalibrate PTZ button

Re-calibrates the camera's PTZ stepper motor locations (Pan, Tilt and Zoom) and returns the camera to Home.

Ceiling Mount button

Engaging this button flips the picture upside down to accommodate mounting the camera on the ceiling. The up and down Tilt controls are flipped as well.

The Home button returns the camera to the default Home position, or the position that was saved by the Save Home button.

The Save Home button saves the current camera position (PTZ Coordinates) as the Home position.

When engaged, the Load Privacy button recalls the privacy preset position as captured when the Save Privacy button was clicked. By default the camera is facing backwards and outputs a black video stream.

When the button is disengaged, the camera returns to the position it was when the Load Privacy button was engaged.

The Load Privacy button is disengaged when a coordinate is entered in the Coordinates field, or if a Q-SYS Snapshot is evoked.

The Save Privacy sets the privacy preset position. This is the location to which the camera returns when the Load Privacy button is clicked, and when the camera first powers up. By default, this location is pointed towards the back of the camera.

The Auto Privacy toggle button turns the feature on and off. This button is on the I/O Video Bridge only, not the Camera component.

When on, cameras connected to the bridge will automatically be in privacy mode until video is requested (USB connected to a computer, and an application viewing the video) in which case the cameras exits the Privacy mode and moves to the home position.

AP Delay

Enter a value from 1 to 600 seconds.

After video is turned off, or USB disconnected, after the AP Delay timeout period, the cameras returns to the privacy mode again.

Pan Speed

Adjust the speed of motor movements for panning the camera using the Pan buttons. Use your mouse to drag the slider to the speed you want, or enter a number from 0 to 1.00.

Tilt Speed

Adjust the speed of motor movements for tilting the camera using the Tilt buttons. Use your mouse to drag the slider to the speed you want, or enter a number from 0 to 1.00.

Zoom Speed

Adjust the speed of motor movements for zooming the camera using the Zoom buttons. Use your mouse to drag the slider to the speed you want, or enter a number from 0 to 1.00.

Recall Speed

Adjust the speed of motor movements when recalling PTZ coordinates, such as when loading a saved Snapshot. Use your mouse to drag the slider to the speed you want, or enter a number from 0 to 1.00.

Focus Mode – turns Auto Focus On. Auto Focus is turned off when one of the Manual focus buttons is clicked.

The Focus In button changes the focus mode to Manual and pushes the focal point toward the background of the shot. Objects in the foreground are less likely to be in focus, objects in the background are more likely to be in focus.

The Focus Out button changes the focus mode to Manual and pushes the focal point toward the foreground in the shot. Objects in the foreground are more likely to be in focus, objects in the background are less like to be in focus.

Manual Speed

The Focus Speed slider adjusts the speed at which the Focus In and Focus Out buttons operate. Does not apply to the Auto Focus mode. Use your mouse to drag the slider to the speed you want. or, enter a number from 0 (zero) to 0.100.

Sensitivity

The Sensitivity drop-down list controls how aggressive the algorithm operates to keep the camera in focus. Setting this too low can create a semi-blurry image, setting this too high can create focus-hunting. Does not apply to the Manual Focus mode.

Preview Screen

Preview of the camera's image that updates once per second. Q-SYS Touchscreens can accommodate two or three images on an single UCI before its operation and controls become sluggish.

Zooms out. Gives you a wider angle of view. Click and release for small increments, or click and hold to zoom continually.

Zooms in. Gives you a smaller angle of view. Click and release for small increments, or click and hold to zoom continually.

Tilts the camera upward. Click and release for small increments, or click and hold to tilt continually until the camera reaches the mechanical limits.

Tilts the camera downward. Click and release for small increments, or click and hold to tilt continually until the camera reaches the mechanical limits.

Pans the camera left. Click and release for small increments, or click and hold to pan continually until the camera reaches the mechanical limits. Allows for 360° pan.

Reset all Camera settings

This button resets all of the camera's settings back to their default values. This includes all of the items on Control and Imaging tabs. This is a quick method to go back to auto mode on all of the settings.

Brightness

The general intensity of light in an image. Increasing this number makes the image brighter. Decreasing this number and the image will appear darker.

Saturation

Amount of total color (chroma) in the image. Reducing this number will result in the image displaying dull or muted colors. Increasing this will result in the images colors being more vivid.

Sharpness

The boundaries between different tones or colors. Increasing this number will improve definition between objects. Decreasing this number will reduce definition, creating blurred lines between objects.

Contrast

The separation between the darkest and brightest parts of an image. Increasing this number will make the separation grow, decreasing this number will reduce the separation.

Mode

Toggle button to choose exposure mode, between Auto and Manual. In Auto Mode, the controls for Manual Mode are not available, and vice-versa.

Backlight Comp

With this mode selected, a dark subject against a bright background, or a bright light in a dark image will be compensated for by allowing more light in to brighten the image. With this mode selected in normal lighting conditions, the image will be overexposed.

Anti-Flicker

A toggle (On / Off) button to reduce the "beating" pattern created by the camera's exposure time and frequency of the lighting source. When on, the shutter's exposure time is increased to reduce the image "flicker" artifacts in the image. For very bright scenes, turn this off to allow the camera to reduces the exposure time and prevent the image from being overexposed.

Compensation

This is the best adjustment to compensate for changes made by the Auto Exposure Mode. Increase this value to make the image brighter, reduce it to make it darker.

Gain Limit

The camera will increase the gain in its image sensor up to this limit to get the best image exposure. Too high of a gain shows more noise, too low can create a darker image.

Dynamic Range

The range of which a camera can successfully capture the lightest and darkest area of an image. Increasing the range can lead to blurring and loss of detail. Too little dynamic range and there will not be separation of color or contrast between light and dark components in an image. This field is available in both Auto and Manual Modes.

Aperture

This controls the Iris in the lens of the camera. Moving the slider to right increases the f-stop, making the Iris smaller, reducing the amount of light, and extending the field of view. Moving the slider to the left does just the opposite.

Shutter

This controls the camera's exposure time. The longer the exposure time more light is allowed into the camera, which makes the image brighter .

Gain

Often referred to as 'Iris Gain' this adjustment brightens or darkens the image sensor's output. Video with high gain is likely to be very 'noisy' or 'grainy' after all, "gain equals grain."

Mode

White balance adjusts the camera's color settings to compensate for the ambient lighting conditions. To our eyes, white looks white regardless of the ambient lighting. For example, if you take a picture under florescent light it looks greenish. You can adjust the camera settings to make the white appear white under these and other lighting conditions.

Drop down menu to select the mode.

• Auto – Full automatic mode for White Balance
• Manual – Full manual mode for White Balance
• Indoor/3000K – Preset for indoor lighting with color temperatures around 3000° Kelvin
• Outdoor/5000K – Preset for outdoor lighting with color temperatures around 5000° Kelvin
• One Push – When selected, the camera uses its Auto White Balance algorithm once and then does not adjust the white balance again unless you click the One Push button again. If you press the AWB One Push button while in any white balance mode, it causes the camera to enter One Push white balance mode.

AWB Sensitivity

Sensitivity setting (Low, Medium and High) for Auto White Balance mode. Adjusting this will adjust the threshold for the AWB algorithm to recalculate.

AWB One Push button

Momentary button. Refer to One Push under Mode above.

Hue

If the you believe the camera's white balance algorithm isn't quite right, or the display they are using isn't displaying whites as white, manually adjust the Hue setting to adjust the image to get the desired white.

Red Gain

In Manual White Balance Mode this adjusts the amount of red in an image.

Blue Gain

In Manual White Balance Mode this adjusts the amount of blue in an image.

2D NR Mode

Select the type of 2D (spatial) noise reduction.

• Auto – causes the camera to try to eliminate the spatial noise in the image.
• Manual – enables the 2D NR control to the right.

3D NR Enable

Temporal noise in the image can be effectively reduced by enabling 3D Noise Reduction. The amount of 3D NR reduction applied to the image is determined by the 3D Noise Reduction control to the right of the button. The higher the value, the more temporal / 3D noise is removed. Set too high, the image will create "ghosting" artifacts behind moving images.

Hot Pixel Enable

This button, and its control to the right, allows the camera to compensate for bad pixels in the camera's image sensor. Often seen as bright or "hot" pixels, these can be effectively eliminated by enabling this Hot Pixel compensation setting. The higher the Hot Pixel setting, the more consecutive bad pixels can be compensated for / filtered out.

2D NR

Only available in Manual 2D NR mode. The higher the value, the more the image is spatially softened / blurred.

3D NR

Only available in 3D NR mode. The higher the value, the more the image is temporally filtered.

Hot Pixel

Only available when Hot Pixel mode is enabled. The higher the Hot Pixel setting, the more consecutive bad pixels the camera will compensate for (filter out).

IP Stream 1 Quality

Drop down list to select Good, Better, or Best constant bit-rate stream over the network for its IP Stream 1, MJPEG CBR.

• Best – Camera will stream a 30Mbps IP stream
• Better – Camera will stream a 25Mbps IP stream
• Good – Camera will stream a 20Mbps IP stream

IP Stream 2 Quality

Drop down list to select Good, Better, or Best constant bit-rate stream over the network for its IP Stream 2, H.264 CBR.

• Best – Camera will stream a 2Mbps IP stream
• Better – Camera will stream a 1Mbps IP stream
• Good – Camera will stream a 0.5Mbps IP stream

SDI/HDMI Enable

When enabled, the SDI and HDMI outputs are active, otherwise they are turned off (default is on). The SDi/HDMI outputs are turned on whenever the OSD is turned on (ID Mode is on).

SDI HDMI Format

This drop down list allows the user to select the video format on the SDI and HDMI outputs on the camera. The Frame Rate can be changed in the Camera section of Q-SYS Core Manager.

ID

When the ID / Identify button is pressed on one of the following:

• Q-SYS Designer Status component
• Configurator's Network Configuration for the hardware
• On the physical hardware,

the ID buttons in the Configurator and Status component flash, and the LED on the physical Hardware flashes to indicate the association between the three.

The indicators will flash for 5 minutes unless you stop them by pressing any one of the buttons.

Status LED

Changes color to indicate status.

Status

Displays the current status of the Camera both in text and color. The following is a list of possible status colors, and some example conditions.

OK – Green – (0) – Video is good, hardware is good.

Compromised – Orange – (1) – Video is good but a non-fatal hardware problem exists (camera is stuck in one position, etc.)

Fault – Red – (2) – Video is not passing, or hardware is malfunctioning or mis-configured etc.

Missing – Red – (3) – A piece of hardware, defined in the design, has not been discovered. Video is not passing through that piece of hardware.

Initializing – Blue – (5) – In the process of firmware, configuration update, and design start. Video is obviously bad.

Not Present – Gray – A camera component in the design, with the Is Required property set to 'No', has no hardware assigned to it.

IP Streaming LED

Like the green LED on the front of the camera, this LED is illuminated if the camera is streaming video over the Ethernet network.

Streaming URL

• If the camera is configured to unicast its video streams, the camera's IP address is shown along with the word "Unicast".
• If the camera is configured to multicast its video streams, its RTSP multicast address is shown for each of the streams.

Model

PTZ-12x72 or PTZ-20Z60 - Found on the label on the rear of the camera.

MAC Address

00:60:74:00:39:67 - Found on the label on the rear of the camera