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Table of Contents
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Enhancing Video for Security ............................................................... 103
Event Recording: Configuration................................................................................................................................ 103
Using Higher Settings for Video Recorded During an Event ......................................................................... 103
Setting Lower Values for Continuous Recording ........................................................................................... 104
Event Recording on Demand, Using the Boost Button ................................................................................. 104
Automating Event Recording: Events of Interest ........................................................................................... 105
Scheduling: Configuration ........................................................................................................................................ 105
Making Use of a Schedule.............................................................................................................................. 107
To Add a Schedule ......................................................................................................................................... 107
Customizing a Schedule................................................................................................................................. 107
To Assign a Schedule to a Camera, or Group of Cameras ........................................................................... 108
Using a 15-minute Increment in a Schedule .................................................................................................. 108
To Rename a Schedule .................................................................................................................................. 109
To Delete a Schedule...................................................................................................................................... 109
Alarms and Scheduling................................................................................................................................... 109
Holiday and Exception.................................................................................................................................... 110
Adding Holidays and Exceptions ................................................................................................................... 111
Event Recording for Video: Scheduling a Response ............................................................................................... 112
Trigger: an Event of Interest ........................................................................................................................... 112
Displaying the Response Panel Used for Making Rules................................................................................ 113
Checklist for Setting a Rule in the Response Schedule................................................................................. 113
Renaming a Rule............................................................................................................................................. 114
Rule Status: Icons ........................................................................................................................................... 114
Managing the Response to a Rule ................................................................................................................. 115
Assigning a Schedule to a Response Rule .................................................................................................... 115
Disabling a Response Rule............................................................................................................................. 115
Motion Detection ....................................................................................................................................................... 116
To Configure Motion Detection....................................................................................................................... 117
Customizing Detection: Masking.................................................................................................................... 117
Example: Masking an Area of the Video Feed ............................................................................................... 117
To Mask Part of a Video Feed from Motion Detection ................................................................................... 118
False Positives ................................................................................................................................................ 118
Customizing Detection: Scheduling ............................................................................................................... 118
Motion Detection Reference ........................................................................................................................... 119
Motion Search ........................................................................................................................................................... 120
Camera Sabotage: Detection.................................................................................................................................... 120
To Configure CSD........................................................................................................................................... 121
Calibration of CSD .......................................................................................................................................... 121
Moved-type CSD: Learning and Rearming Alarms ........................................................................................ 122
Computing the Length of the Video Archive............................................................................................................. 122
Rapid Eye Storage Estimator ......................................................................................................................... 123
Number of Cameras, Audio ............................................................................................................................ 124
Scheduling Cameras ...................................................................................................................................... 125
Frame Rate for Continuous Recording........................................................................................................... 125
Quality ............................................................................................................................................................. 125
Resolution ....................................................................................................................................................... 126
Using Higher Values When Recording Video ................................................................................................ 127
A Multi-Media Unit’s Storage Statistics ..................................................................................................................... 127
To Obtain a Unit’s Statistics............................................................................................................................ 128