ChaseCam PDR 100 User Manual - page 14
INTELLIGENT VIDEO
ChaseCam PDR100 User Manual – 4/10/09
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When the DISPLAY CONTRAST screen is up, you may press the LEFT and RIGHT keys to
change the LCD’s text screen contrast. Press Menu to save your settings.
SET SERIAL NUMBER
If your PDR is not factory preset,
do not enter one
unless instructed to by ChaseCam. Use the
directional keys to change the settings and enter to save. Do not guess at a serial number, it will
not work! Serial numbers have to be supplied from the factory. If a serial number has already
been set, this menu selection will display the set serial number. Once a number has been
assigned and set, it can’t be changed. The serial number is used for specific software features.
This is not the manufacturing date serial number on the back of the unit.
FEATURES
ON SCREEN DISPLAYS
The menu options here will depend on the options that are built into the PDR. If your unit has the
GForce option, then you will see the GForce menu. All units will have the TIME DISPLAY menu.
You cannot select Gforce or MoTeC AND the TIME DISPLAYS at the same time. You have to
pick one of the options available. All units built after January 2009 will include the GForce option.
You can turn off displays by pressing the 2 key in this menu. You will see the text above the 2
key saying TURN OFF DISPLAYS.
PRIORITY OF DISPLAY.
Turning on GFORCE DISPLAY will override the TIME DISPLAY. If
TIME DISPLAY is on, then turning off the GFORCE DISPLAY will allow TIME DISPLAY to
function. You can not at this time have both GFORCE and TIME displaying.
TIME DISPLAYS.
You have four different ways of displaying time as text recorded directly on the
video. The first menu section will toggle through the options. You can show DATE + TIME on the
video, show only the actual TIME, or show elapsed RECORDING TIMER. Recording time is
useful as a track timer.
SHOW FRAME COUNT.
Pressing select on this will turn on a video frame counter. If it says
SHOW on the menu, it is not on. If it says HIDE, it is on.
CLEAR BACKGROUND – SHOW BLACK BACKGROUND.
This will put white text directly on
the video. Less obtrusive, but might not work as well if the background is very light. You may get
better results in that case, by toggling this to SHOW BLACK BACKGROUND which will place the
white text on a black bars.
PUT AT TOP – PUT AT BOTTOM.
Moves the text and bars to either the top or bottom of the
screen.
TURN ON DISPLAY – TURN OFF DISPLAY.
Pressing key 2 will toggle the on screen displays
on and off from being recorded on the video. If it says TURN ON DISPLAY, it is OFF now.
GFORCE MODULE.
See GFORCE section below.
AUTO RECORD AT START
Selecting BEGIN RECORDING AT START to select this feature. This means the PDR will
automatically start recording as soon as it is powered up, has a Compact Flash card in it, and has
video connected. This is useful for situations where you want the PDR to always be recording
without requiring anyone to push any start buttons.
You will also set this feature on if you want
to automatically record using the GForce trigger.
AUTO SHUT DOWN