Add Recording Schedule to Camera

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On the Recording Schedule tabbed page, the recording schedule list is featured to deliver the recording schedule(s) of a camera. It is also a group of settings to configure the recording schedule(s) of a camera. The group of settings features a add sign icon clip0002 to add a recording schedule to a camera. Click such clip0002 icon to open a dedicated page to add a recording schedule to a camera.

 

To open the dedicated page to add a recording schedule to a camera:

 

1. From the Tree Console, click the topic Recording Server.

 

2. Click the topic Video Device.

 

3. Click the Video Device to which the camera to configure belongs.

 

4. Open the Recording Schedule tabbed page of a camera.

 

The Recording Schedule tabbed page opens in the Configuration Pane.

 

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5. Find the recording schedule list group of settings in the middle of the Recording Schedule tabbed page. And find the clip0002 icon at the bottom of the recording schedule list.

 

6. Click the clip0002 icon.

 

The dedicated page to add a recording schedule to a camera then opens.

 

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The featured settings are:

Setting

Description

Default

Select Schedule

Selects an existing schedule to add, or adds a new schedule to add.

The existing schedules are the schedules created as described in Create A Schedule.
Click the clip0002 icon on the right to create a new schedule.
To create a new schedule, see Create A Schedule for more details.

The

Always” schedule

Schedule table

Shows the selected schedule or the schedule about to be added in an overview table.

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Recording type

Sets how videos are recorded for the selected schedule or the schedule about to be added.

Options available are:

Option

Description

Always

Records videos 24 hours a day.

When set to Always, the Video encode setting becomes available. Select Modify video frame rate to be able to adjust the MJPEG video frame rate from 1 to 30.

Recording on Event

Records videos when an event occurs.

When set to Recording on Event, the Video encode setting becomes available. Select Modify video frame rate to be able to adjust the MJPEG video frame rate from 1 to 30. Also available are the Pre-record and Post-record settings, which is configurable from 5 to 180 sec.
When set to Recording on Event, the Event type setting also becomes available so users can set which event to trigger video recording.

Boosting recording

Records videos with original frame rate when an event occurs and lower frame rate when no event occurs.

When set to Boost Recording, the Normal Video encode group of settings and Event Video encode group of settings both become available so users can set which frame rate to record videos when an event occurs or when nothing happens (“normally”). Select Modify video frame rate to be able to adjust the MJPEG video frame rate from 1 to 30.
When set to Boost Recording, the Event typesetting also becomes available so users can set which event to trigger video boost recording.

Disabled

Disables video recording.

Always

Video Encode

Selects the video format for the recording schedule.

Available video encode are original profile and modify video frame rate.

 

 

   Take a closer look at the Recording schedule list:

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   The information delivered is:

 

Name

Delivers the name of the schedule currently applied to the camera.

Property

Delivers when and how to record videos.

Description

Delivers the brief description of the schedule (profile).

Pre-record

Sets the time to start recording right before the scheduled time.

Post-record

Sets the time to keep recording after the scheduled time elapses.

 

 

   The featured settings are:

 

clip0002

Click this add sign icon to open another page to add a schedule.

Available options are the schedules created as described in Create A Schedule.

clip0004

Deletes the selected schedule.

Click a schedule to select it.

clip0009

Edits the selected schedule.

Click a schedule to select it.

clip0007

Moves the selected schedule priority up.

Click a schedule to select it.

clip0008

Moves the selected schedule priority down.

Click a schedule to select it.