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Video Color

Menu Location: Settings - Video Audio Configuration

Changes the video color settings of the video, brightness, contrast, saturation and hue.

Changes the color settings of all the cameras at once.

To change color of a single camera configure that individual camera from the numeric button pad in the Monitoring Control Window, configure the camera and click on the Camera Brightness button. Separate Camera Brightness must be enable first.

This is alternative way to set video color if menu Video Source does not available with your video capture driver.

Put a check mark beside Using Black and White Cameras if you are using at least one black and white camera in your video monitoring system. It automatically sets saturation and hue to 0 so as to avoid color noise in the image which can cause false motion detection.

This menu item available if  the Hardware Type selected is a PCI card with a Conexant chip on it.

If  you run the Video Surveillance WebCam Software, and there is a loss of color in the image and you cannot seem to get it back, under menu item Video Source do not use S-Video, but change to it to Composite.