Panasonic Network Disk Recorder Wj Nd400 Operating Instructions

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Playback on a multiscreen  Images being played back are displayed on a split screen (4-screen).
 Displays multiple images from up to 4 cameras at the same time. Each time the button is clicked, the 4  screens change. Refer to the Setup
Instructions (PDF file) for info rmation about camera group settings.
 To return to a single screen display, click the camera title in the [Cam. select] box or a camera title displayed in the image.
Note:
 The various channels may lose  synchronization while viewing
multiscreen. The times can be sync hronized by pausing and then clicking
the [PLAY] button again.
 Using the single frame function while multiscreen are displayed may cause discrepancies in the image of that channel.
Electronic zoom  Enlarge the size of the image.
Clicking the button in the [El-z oom] box while one screen is being
displayed enlarges the image.
[x1] button: Digitally zooms image by 1x.
[x2] button: Digitally zooms image by 2x.
[x4] button: Digitally zooms image by 4x.
 The point where a zoomed image is clicked becomes the center of the screen.
Zoom in [Zoom in]  Enlarges images being played.
 Right click on the image being played,  and select [Zoom in] from the menu
that is displayed. 
 To return from the zoomed display to  the regular display, right click on the
image being played, and select [BACK] fr om the menu that is displayed. 
Note:
 When MPEG-4 image is enlarged, it may take the first few seconds for
refresh interval of image.
FunctionButtonOperation 
						

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Playback images from a designated time and date. You can also
playback while recording.
1Click the [Cam. select] button.
The camera list is displayed in the [Cam. select] box.
2Click the camera channel you want to play back.
3Click the [Go to date] button on Playback Point
Operation area.
This displays the [Go to date] window.
4Click the [V] button and select the time and date of the
image to play back.
 Standard channel 
If cameras are setup in multiple countries, you must set
which camera channel time and date to use as standard.
If the recorder and the camera are set in the same time
zone, set to [--].
5Click the [PLAY] button.
Playing [Step 1] is displayed  in the status display area and
images recorded at the designated time and date are played
back.
 Refer to page 20 for information about operations during playback.
6On the [HDD] tab, click the [STOP] button.
Playing [Step 1] disappears fr om the status display area
and playback is stopped.
 The live image from the camera is displayed in the Image
display.
Note:
 When an MPEG-4 image is being  played back, playback may
start from a point several seconds before or after the
designated time and date.
 To playback SD memory data saved on the recorder, display the rec event list and search for the recorded event to playback
(page 24).
Playback is not possible by pl aying back from the designated
time and date.
 Where there is no image for the designated time and date, the image closest to the entered time and date is played back.
Search for and playback recorded  events on the rec event list (rec
event search). 
Note:
 When doing a rec event search, the area that can be searched depends on the disk area that is selected.
Refer to page 26 for details about area selection.
Playback from a designated time 
and date
Search for and playback images 
						

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Note:
 The rec event list is displayed when the [Refresh] button is pressed, or when searching (page 24, page 25) or when 
selecting an area (page 26). 
 The [All list] button is disabl ed during playback. Stop playback
and then do the search operation.
 When there are many cameras, the recording start time may vary for each channel.
Filter conditions
Filter 
ConditionsSearch
Time and 
date Select the starting and ending time and date to 
search for images recorded during that period.
Event Search only for images of the selected recording mode. Select from the following recording modes.  Manual [MAN]
 Schedule [SCH]
 Emergency [EMR]
 Site alarm [CAM]
 Terminal alarm [TRM]
 Command alarm [COM]
 SD memory recording [SD] : Manual recording (page 1
8)
: Schedule recording (refer to the Setup Instructions (PDF file))
: Emergency recording (refer to the Setup Instructions (PDF file))
: Records according to site alarms (refer to the Setup Instructions (PDF file))
: Records according to terminal alarms (ref er to the Setup Instructions (PDF file))
: Records according to command alarms (refer  to the Setup Instructions (PDF file))
: SD memory recording (refer to the Setup Instructions (PDF file))
Camera Searches selected camera channels.
Rec event list displayNumber of the list
data : Displays the total number of the listed data.
When there are more than 10 000 logs,
[>10000] is displayed.
[All list] button : Removes any  conditions and  lists, all rec 
events are listed.
[Refresh] button : Updates the display to the most current status.
[Prev page] button : Displays the previous page of the list.
[Next page] button : Displays the next page of the list.
[Time & date] : Start time of  recording will be displayed.
[Ch] : Displays the channel of the recording
camera.
[Rec] : Displays the recording mode.
[HDD] : Number of the disk where the recorded
image is located.
[Info] : Additional information will be displayed,
when audio is attached. 
						

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1Click the [Control] button.
2Click the [Search] button in the [Search] box.
This will display the [Select search method] window.
3Click the [Rec event search] button.
This displays the [Rec event search] window.
4Conditions for filtering.
 Time & date
Filter by time and date. Click the [V] button and select the
starting and ending time and date.
 Rec event Filter by recording event by  clicking the recording event to
search for.
 Selecting [SD memory rec.]  clears all selections other
than SD memory data. Selecting something other than
[SD memory rec.] clears the SD memory data selection.
 Standard ch If cameras are setup in multiple countries, you must set
which camera channel time and date to use as standard.
If the recorder and the camera are set in the same time
zone, set to [--].
 Camera Filter by camera channel by se lecting the check box of the
camera channel to search.
5Click the [OK] button.
 [FILTERING] is displayed on the status display area and the filtered results are displayed.
 This displays the search  results on the rec event list
window.
 To clear the filter, click the [A ll list] button. All events are
displayed and [FILTERING] disappears.
6Click the recorded event time to playback.
The image at the selected recorded event time is played
back.
 Refer to page 20 for information about operations during
playback.
7On the [HDD] tab, click the [STOP] button.
Stops playback.
Note:
 Playback of SD memory dataIf there are only a few images recorded during a single event,
they may not play back correctly (black screens may appear or
refreshing may take a long time). If this happens, you can use
next frame/previous frame to display the images.
 Playback of SD memory data on multiscreen If the images are not played back  correctly on multiscreen, play
them on a single screen.
Search for and playbac k recorded events 
						

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Search for images with motion on a specific time and date from
images recorded by cameras that support VMD search and view
them in a list. Select and playback images of a specified time and
date from the results list.
1Click the [Control] button.
2Select the camera showing the live image you want to
search for or playback.
3Click the [Search] button in the [Search] box.
This will display the [Select search method] window.
4Click the [VMD search] button.
The [VMD search] window is displayed.
Note:
 Live images are shown live and  recorded images are shown
paused in the image area.
5Click the [V] button and set the date range and the basic
channel for the VMD search.
6Set the area for the motion search.
Specify the area by dragging the mouse on the area of the
image.
7Click the [OK] button.
Searching starts.
 This displays the search  results on the rec event list
window.
 Searching may take a while.
8Click the recorded event time to playback.
The image at the selected recorded event time is played
back.
 Refer to page 20 for information about operations during  playback.
 Images are played back in 1-screen only. Click the [Multiscreen select] button  after playback has started to
display images in multiscreen.
9Click the [STOP] button.
Stops playback.
Search for and playback images with
motion at a specific  time and date (VMD
search)
Important:
 To do a VMD search, the cameras that support VMD search
need to be set in advance. 
Refer to the readme.txt file on the CD-ROM bundled with the
recorder for information about the camera models that support
VMD search.
For details refer to the operating instructions for the camera.
Important:
 In the list of VMD search results, the [Info] audio informationicon is not displayed even if audio is attached to the file. 
 You cannot do VMD searches of  SD memory or pre-event
recording data. 
						

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Note:
 When doing a VMD search in the multiple image screen, theupper-left image is searched. 
 If you do a VMD search during sequence operations, the sequence operation stops.
Playback camera images saved in t he Normal recording area, Event
recording area, and Copy area on the HDDs.
1Click the [Control] button.
2Click the [Search] button in the [Area select] box.
This will display the [Area select] window.
 The Area select window is not displayed during playback.
3Select the check box for the area to be played back.
 Normal area/Event area
 Copy area
4Click the [OK] button.
The selected disk is displayed in the status display area.
5Click the [HDD] tab.
6Click the [PLAY] button.
Playing [Step 1] is displayed  in the status display area and
the recorded images on the selected disk are played back.
 Refer to page 20 for information about operations during  playback.
7Click the [STOP] button.
Stops playback.  Playing [Step 1] disappears fr
om the status display area
and a live image from the camera is displayed in the
Image display.
 If you press the [PLAY] button after stopping playback, playback resumes from the time and date when playback
was stopped.
Select an area to play back 
						

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Screen operations
Live images
Live images from a camera are displayed on a web browser. The live images from the cameras can be displayed on a web browser in one or
multiscreen.
Images can also be automatically displayed in a sequence.
1Click the [Cam. select] button.
The camera list is displayed in the [Cam. select] box.
Note:
 About Selecting a Camera Click [WJ-ND400] to display the  group titles of the cameras set
on the recorder. Clicking a group  title displays the cameras that
belong to that group. Clicking a cameras title displays that
cameras image.
 About selecting a camera from the right-click menu You can change the image by right clicking on the image and
selecting a camera from the menu that appears.
2Click [WJ-ND400] and select in order the camera group
title and camera title.
The live image from the selected camera channel is
displayed.
1-screen display 
						

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* This operation is only available when 1 screen is displayed.
Useful functions while images are displayed
Function NameButtonOperation
Electronic zoom* Enlarges live images.
Clicking the button in the [El-zoom]  box while one screen is being displayed
enlarges the image.
[x1] button: Digitally zooms image by 1x.
[x2] button: Digitally zooms image by 2x.
[x4] button: Digitally zooms image by 4x.
 The point where a zoomed image is cl icked becomes the center of the
screen.
Zoom in [Zoom in]  Enlarges live images.
 To zoom in to the image, right click on the image, and select [ZOOM IN]from the menu that is displayed. 
 To return from the zoomed display to  the regular display, right click on the
image being played, and select [BACK] fr om the menu that is displayed. 
Note:
 When MPEG-4 image is enlarged, it may take the first few seconds for
refresh interval of image.
Skip to the latest image [Go to last] By  clicking  on  a  di splayed live image, you can skip to and playback the latest
image on that camera channel. Refer to page 15 for more information. 
						

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The following camera operations are available when live images
from a camera with the pan and tilt function are displayed on a single
screen. Operations may not be possible depending on the model of
the connected camera.
Pan & tilt operations 
Adjust the camera images horizontal and vertical position.
1Click the [CAM] tab.
Zoom, focus, brightness operations
Adjust the zoom, focus, and brightness of the image.
1Click the [CAM] tab.
 Zoom Click the [-] or [+] button in the [Zoom] box to adjust the zoom.
Click the [x1] button to reset the zoom.
 Focus Click the [Near] or [Far] button in the [Focus] box to adjust the
focus.
Clicking the [Auto] button to do set focus automatically.
 Brightness Click the [-] (Dark) or [+] (Bright)  button in the [Brightness] box to
adjust the lens iris (brightness).
Click the [Reset] button to return brightness to normal.
Note:
 You can also adjust the zoom by using the mouse wheel button.
Camera control
Pan & tilt : Adjust the cameras horizontal and vertical  position.
Zoom : Zoom in/out the image.
Focus : Adjust the focus point of the image.
Brightness : Adjust the lens iris. (brightness)
Preset operations : Registers the preset position of camera. / Moves the camera to the registered preset
positions.
Auto : Select the cameras automatic mode
function.
Control button : Click to adjust the direction of the camera.
Control pad : Click to adjust the direction of the camera. If a clicked point gets farther from the center
point of the control pad. 
Image display 
area : Click the desired point to be center of the
field angle in the displayed image.
The camera direction moves to the position
you clicked.
Zoom : Adjust the size of the image. The degree of
zoom depends on the type of camera. For
details refer to the operating instructions for
the camera.
Focus : Adjust the focus point of the image. The
focus point can be adjusted automatically
(auto focus).
Brightness : Adjust the lens iris (brightness). The lens iris can also be reset. 
						

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Registration of a camera direction on the preset
position. 
The current camera direction can be registered on the specified
preset position. Registered preset positions can be used with a
camera supporting the preset position function.
1Click the [CAM] tab.
2Perform the cameras pan and tilt operation to move the
camera to the position to be registered.
3Click the [V] button in the [Preset] box and select the
preset number (1 to 256) you want to register. [Home]
cannot be registered.
4Click the [Set] button.
The selected preset number is registered.
Move a camera to the preset position. 
Move a camera to the preset position registered in advance.
Registering preset positions is required to perform the preset
function.
1Click the [CAM] tab.
2Click the [V] button in the [Preset] box and select the
preset number (Home, 1 to 256) to be moved.
3Click the [Go] button.
The camera moves to the position that was registered as the
preset position for that number.
Auto mode function (Auto pan etc.)
Operates the auto functions set for the camera.
1Click the [CAM] tab.
2Click the [V] button in the [Auto mode] box and select
the auto mode (auto tracking, auto pan, preset
sequence, sort, patrol) you want to start.
3Click the [Start] button in the [Auto mode] box to start
the auto mode function.
To turn off the auto mode function, click [Stop].
Note:
 For information about cameras auto mode functions, refer to
the cameras operating instructions.