System Administrator’s Guide
Document K14392V1 Rev A 69
07/07
Fig. 5–4. A Red Dot Is Added to the Icon of a Camera that Is Recording.
Turning recording OFF
A camera's settings are retained when recording is turned OFF.
Disabling a camera resets the recording settings and other configurations to default
settings. The defaults are used when the camera is re-enabled.
Customizing Settings for Recorded Video
Flexibility
Use the Recording tab to customize a Resolution, Frame Rate and Quality for each camera's
continuous recording and for event recording. The recording settings can be the same for all
cameras or customized, camera-by-camera.
Making settings
Values for Event Recording cannot be lower than settings for Continuous recording.
Forecasting results
For
Computing the Length of the Video Archive, see p. 122.
To compare resolution settings, see
Comparing the Resolutions of Recorded Video, p.76.
Resolution Setting
On the Recording tab, click a cell in the Resolution column. Select a value (of pixels × pixels) from
the list that appears. For comments about the values, see
Optimizing Recorded Video, p. 72, and
Resolution Reference: Recorded Video, starting on p. 81. The default values are, for
NTSC: 320 × 240; for PAL: 384 × 288.
Tip
Honeywell recommends optimizing the resolution of recorded video using the Automatic
DSP Performance Maximization.
Honeywell does not recommended gauging the resolution of recorded video based on live
video. Live video is always shown at an optimal resolutions that can differ from the
resolution for recording.