Sony SNC-RZ30N manual Memory, Overwrite

Administrating the Camera

Memory

Select the memory you want to store the image to, from the drop-down list.

Built-in memory: Built-in memory of the camera (about 8 MB)

ATA memory card (A-slot):ATA memory card inserted into A slot of the camera

ATA memory card (B-slot):ATA memory card inserted into B slot of the camera

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.

Recording an Image in the Selected 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 is added to

the basic file name. A number of up to 10 digits between 0000000000 and 4294967295 is added to the 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 1), S2 (Sensor 2), S3 (Sensor 3), 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.

Mode

Select the mode of the Image memory function.

Manual: Records a still image in the selected memory manually.

In this mode, when you click the (Trigger) button on the main viewer page, a still image is captured and recorded in the selected memory. (See “Controlling the Application Manually” on page 13.)

Alarm: Records a still image in the selected memory by synchronizing with an external sensor input or the built-in activity detection function. When you select Alarm, the Alarm mode setting section appears (see page 36).

Note

If the Suffix menu is set to None, you cannot select the Alarm mode. When you want to use the Alarm mode, set the Suffix menu to Date/Time or Sequence number.

Periodical recording:Records still images in the selected memory periodically. When you select Periodical recording, the Periodical recording mode setting section appears (see page 37).

Alarm mode setting Section

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Recording Images in Memory — Image memory setting Page