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Recording Setup
General
Figure 26: Record – General setup screen
Highlighting “Overwrite” and pressing the button toggles between On and Off. In the Overwrite mode, the
recorder records over the oldest video data once all available storage space has been used. When Overwrite
is turned off, the recorder stops recording once all available storage space has been used.
Highlight the “Event Record Dwell” box and set the length of time you would like to record for the associated
event. You can set the dwell from 5 seconds to 30 minutes. Refer to “Event Actions” screen in this chapter for
information regarding event recording.
The recorder can record up to four audio inputs. Highlighting “Record Audio” and pressing the button
toggles between On and Off.
Highlight the slide bar beside “Auto Deletion”, and use the Left and Right arrow buttons or Up and Down
arrow buttons to adjust the length of time recorded data will be kept from 1 to 999 days. The recorder
automatically deletes video recorded earlier than the user-defined period under three conditions: at midnight,
whenever the system reboots or whenever the user changes the Auto Deletion settings. Selecting “Never” will
disable the Auto Deletion function.
Highlight the slide bar beside “Limit Time-Lapse Recording”, and use the Left and Right arrow buttons to
adjust the length of the maximum storage time for time-lapse recording from 1 to 99 days. The Limit Time-
Lapse Recording feature will function when the storage device has enough space to record video data longer
than the preset period. When this feature is On, the recorder records over the oldest “time-lapse” video once
all available storage has been used in the Overwrite mode, so more event video can be saved. Selecting
“Never” will disable the Limit Time-Lapse Recording function.
Note: When the storage device does not have enough space to record video data longer than the
preset Limit Time-Lapse Recording period, the recorder records over the oldest video data
(time-lapse or event video) as it would in the Overwrite mode even if this feature is turned On.
The maximum storage time is only an estimate because the amount of space required to store
video varies depending on many factors such as motion and image complexity.
Important: When more than one disk is installed in the unit, the recorder records video on the disks
sequentially based on time. And these sequentially recorded videos have the advantage
that you can search recorded video easily even though a disk is removed from the unit.
However, video recorded in the same time range might be saved on different disks by
channel and by the type of recording mode. Once the Limit Time-Lapse Recording is set to
On, the recorder will maintain this recording limitation even after disabling the function. If
you want the recorder to record video on the disks sequentially based on time again, you
must format all disks that are currently used for recording.
