Recording Live Video

About Live Video Recording

The VA-SW3050 enables you to record live video from cameras in the following four ways.

Recording

Recording

Description

Refer

Mode

Method

to

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Records live video in manual operation.

 

 

 

In manual recording, the following recording

 

 

Manual

operations are available:

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• Recording by specifying the camera to record the live

 

recording

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video

Normal

 

 

 

• Recording live videos from all cameras

 

recording

 

 

 

simultaneously

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The timer recording enables you to record live video

 

 

Timer

automatically by specifying the start and end times.

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recording

Use the [Timer Setting] screen to configure the timer

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recording.

 

 

 

 

 

The alarm recording starts live video recording automatically, triggered by an input signal from a device connected to the camera such as door switch or infrared sensor.

Alarm recording

 

Records the post-alarm video after the alarm signal

Recording on

for specified duration on the PC’s hard disk drive.

Use the [Alarm Setting] screen to configure the

the PC’s hard

recording duration.

 

disk drive

Note:

 

directly

 

 

In this recording method, the pre-alarm recording is

 

not available.

 

 

Records both the pre- and post-alarm video before

 

and after the alarm signal respectively on the

 

camera’s memory by specifying the recorded video

 

size. The recorded alarm video is transferred one by

 

one to the PC and stored on the hard disk drive.

 

Use the [Alarm Setting] screen to configure the total

 

alarm video size and the ratio between the pre- and

Recording on

post-alarm video size in alarm recording.

 

 

the camera’s

Pre-alarm

Post-alarm recording

memory

recording

 

temporarily

 

 

 

Alarm detected

 

 

Alarm recording

 

When you perform the pre-alarm recording, you can

 

check the video from the point immediately before the

 

alarm signal while playing the alarm video.

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MEMO:

The recorded video data is stored on the PC’s hard disk drive. The preferences on storing the recorded video can be configured in the [DATA Storage] screen (see page 41).

Set video quality, etc. in normal recording on the [Camera Setting] screen (see page 10).

Note:

If simultaneously accessing from multiple PCs, alarm recording can only be performed from one.

Depending on the network environment, PC performance or number of PCs connected, it may not be possible to record at the designated recording rate.

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Sanyo va-sw3050 instruction manual Recording Live Video, About Live Video Recording