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Camera settings
Before connecting to your cameras, you must configure the settings that will be used by them.
To reduce overhead, you don’t need to create settings for each camera. Instead, configure
items such as schedules and video quality once, then re-use those same settings for all
cameras that should be similarly configured.
Camera configuration workflow
Camera configuration involves the following steps:
1. Video profiles
define video quality. Video profiles are used in camera profiles. To configure
video profiles, go to
Camera > Configuration > Video Profile
. For details, see
2. Camera profiles
define video storage options and recording schedules (either continuous or
motion detection). Camera profiles will be used when you configure the discovered cameras.
To configure camera profiles, go to
Camera > Configuration > Camera Profile
. For details,
.
3. Connect
the camera to the NVR. FortiRecorder NVR can discover the connected cameras
automatically and display them under
Camera > Configuration > Camera
with
Status
as
Not
Configured
. See
“Connecting FortiRecorder to the cameras”
4.
After you configure the above settings, go to
Camera > Configuration > Camera
to configure
all other camera settings, such as IP address, motion detection windows, and so on. See
5.
Go to
Camera > Configuration > Camera Group
to add individual camera to different groups
to facilitate camera management. For details, see
. Camera groups are
used in user profiles. For details, see
Configuring video profiles
Video profiles define the video quality that you want the camera to capture and stream to the
NVR. Note that the higher the video quality, the more bandwidth it consumes.
The video profiles will be used in the camera profiles. For details, see
.
To configure a video profile
1.
Go to
Camera > Configuration > Video Profile
.
2.
Click
New
.
