Honeywell K14392V1 manual Scheduling Cameras, Frame Rate for Continuous Recording, Quality

System Administrator’s Guide

Scheduling Cameras

Scheduling can lengthen a video archive. One key application is for the recording of transactions that do not occur 24/7, as shown in table 7–3.See Scheduling: Configuration, p. 105.

Table 7–3 Scheduling of Cameras: Effect on Storage

Recording	Recording	Video Archive	Oldest Available Video
(hours / days)	Suspended (%)	(camera-day)	(to closest date)
24/7*	0.0	1153	3 years, 1 month
12/5 + 24/2 †	35.7	1793	4 years, 11 months
12/7 ‡	50.0	2306	6 years, 3 months
8/5 **	76.2	4842	13 years, 3 months

*Default value: every day, all hours, for one camera, Resolution @ 320 × 240; Frame Rate = 1; Quality = 8 and Storage = 500GB.

† Nights and weekends.

‡ Nights only; all week long.

**Business hours, five days a week.

Frame Rate for Continuous Recording

Table 7–4shows how higher frame rates can reduce the length of a video archive. For more cameras, divide the time of the archive by the number of cameras.

Table 7–4 Frame Rate: Effect on Storage

Frame Rate	Video Archive	Oldest Available Video*
(images per second)	(estimated, camera-day)	(rounded to shortest time)
1†	1153	3 years, 1 month
2	576	1 year, 6 months
6	192	6 months
15	77	2 months
30	38	1 month

*For one camera; Resolution = 320 × 240; Quality = 8; Storage = 500GB.

† Default value

Quality

Video compression (“Quality”)

A higher Quality setting means less video compression and less time before your oldest video gets replaced by fresher video; see table 7–5.For example: setting Quality to “10” uses up almost twice as much storage as a setting of “6”.

Lowering quality to spare storage

At sites where storage is at a premium, you can lower the recording quality to six (6) compression units. Table 7–5shows that this can give you about 25% more storage—other settings unchanged.

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