Sony SNC-CS3P, SNC-CS3N manual Recording Images in Memory, Image memory setting, Overwrite

Recording Images in Memory

— Image memory setting Page

When you click Image memory on the Administrator menu, the Image memory setting page appears.

Use this page to set up for the image memory function which captures a still image and records it in the built-in memory of the camera (about 8 MB). You can capture a still image at the moment when a trigger occurs by an external sensor input, the built-in activity detection function or a manual trigger button. The captured still image is recorded in the built-in memory. You can also record a still image periodically.

The recorded image file can be found or downloaded to the computer using the FTP server function. (See “Downloading Images from the Camera — FTP server setting Page” on page 30.)

Activating/Deactivating the Image Memory Function — Image memory usage setting Page

Built-in memory

Displays the free space of the built-in memory of the camera.

Use image memory function/Do not use image memory function

To activate the Image memory function, select Use image memory function and click OK. The Image memory setting page appears.

When you do not use the Image memory function, select Do not use image memory function and click OK.

Notes

•The image recorded in the built-in memory will be erased when the power of the camera is turned off.

•The frame rate and operability on the main viewer page may decrease during image storage.

•The image memory function cannot be activated if the Backup sending mode menu is set to On. To use the image memory function, set the Backup sending mode menu to Off.

Recording an Image in the Memory

— Image memory setting Page

Image file name

Type the basic file name you want to assign to the images when saving in the memory. You can use up to 6 alphanumeric, - (hyphen) and _ (underscore) for naming.

Suffix

Select the suffix to add to the file name.

None: No suffix is added. The basic file name is assigned to the image to be recorded in memory.

Date/Time: The date/time suffix is added to the file name.

The date/timer suffix consists of lower two-digits of year (2 digits), month (2 digits), date (2 digits), hour (2 digits), minute (2 digits), second (2 digits) and consecutive number (2 digits), thus 14-digit number is added to the file name.

Sequence number: A consecutive number of 10 digits between 0000000000 and 4294967295 is added to the basic file name.

Tip

When the Mode menu is set to Alarm, the type of alarm and the capture timing to the alarm are added to the suffix.

Type of alarm: S1 (Sensor), AD (Activity Detection)

Capture timing: PR (Pre-alarm), JT (Just alarm), PT (Post-alarm)

Sequence No. clear

Click Apply to reset the Sequence number suffix to 0.

Overwrite

Select if you overwrite the file or not when there is insufficient memory space to record the image.

Select On to allow overwriting. The oldest file or folder is overwritten first.

Select Off to prohibit overwriting. In this case, a new file cannot be stored.

Administrating the Camera

Recording Images in Memory — Image memory setting Page

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