Periodical recording Tab — Setting the Periodical recording mode

You can set to record the image file to the built-in memory periodically.

Periodical recording

Select On when you want to use periodical recording. If you select Off, the Periodical recording is not executed.

Image file name

Type the file name of the image recorded to the built-in memory up to 10 alphanumeric, - (hyphen) and _ (under score).

Note

You cannot send the audio file by using the periodical recording function.

Suffix

Select a suffix to add to the file name.

None: The recording file name will be the Image file name.

Date & time: The date & time suffix is added to the Image file name.

The date/time 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 0000000001 and 4294967295 and two fixed digits 00 is added to the Image file name.

Sequence number clear

Click Clear and the suffix of the sequence number returns to 1.

Interval

Type the interval at which you want to record an image in the built-in memory periodically. You can set the hour (H), minutes (M) and seconds (S) between 1 second and 24 hours (one day).

Note

The actual interval may be longer than the set value, depending on the image size or the network environments.

Efective period

Set the period when the periodical recording is effective. Always: The periodical recording is always effective. Schedule: You can specify the period when the

periodical recording is effective in the schedule setting in the other section.

Click Schedule and the setting menu for the effective period is displayed. (“Setting the Schedule — Schedule setting Menu” on page 55)

OK/Cancel

See “Buttons common to every setting menu” on page 29.

Folder structure of image memory

When the image memory function is used, the images are recorded with the following folder structure.

Root

 

Date_No.

 

xxxxxxx.m4f

 

 

 

 

yyyyyyy.m4f

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

aaaaaaa.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

bbbbbbb.jpf

 

 

 

 

 

 

Date_No.

 

ccccccc.m4f

 

 

 

 

 

 

zzzzzzz.m4f

 

 

 

 

qqqqqqq.m4f

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A represents a folder created automatically.

The Date_No. folder has a 9-digit name consisting of the last two digits of the year (2 digits), month (2 digits), day (2 digits), underscore and sequence number (2 digits).

In the built-in memory, one folder automatically created can store image files of about 1 MB. If the size of the image files exceeds that value, a new folder is created automatically to continue recording.

About the extension of a file

A file to be recorded/sent using the image memory function or the FTP client function has one of the

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Recording Images in Memory — Image memory setting Menu

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