Digital Video Recorder
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Recording Setup
Figure 34 — Record menu.
Record
Highlight
Record
in the Record menu and press the button. The
Record
setup screen appears.
Highlighting
Recycle
and pressing the button toggles
between On and Off. In the Recycle mode, the DVR records
over the oldest video data once all available storage space
has been used. When Recycle is turned off, the DVR 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.
Figure 35 — Record Settings screen.
Highlighting
De-Interlace
and pressing the button toggles between On and Off. When set to
On
, the DVR will
turn the de-interlace filter on while recording video with Very High (D1) resolution.
NOTE: The video signal has a time difference of 1/60 second (1/50 second for PAL) between odd and even fields
because it is composed of 60 interlaced fields per second (50 fields for PAL). When recording video with
Very High (D1) resolution, video is made up of frame units combining two fields – one odd field and one
even field. This can cause horizontal scan lines or flashes in areas with motion because of the time
difference between the two fields. Turning on the de-interlace filter provides clearer video by eliminating
these horizontal scan lines and flashes.
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 DVR 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 DVR records over the oldest “time-lapse” video once all available storage has been used
in the Recycle 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 DVR records over the oldest video data (time-lapse or event video)
as it would in the Recycle 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.