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4.3 Recording Setting

In the Recording dialog box, click OK to accept the new settings, click Cancel to exit without
saving, and click Default to revert back to original factory setting.
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(1) Camera Icons
Select the camera number you want to set the recording setting for. To select all the cameras,
enable the ALL check box. To select more than one camera, Right click on the camera icon. To
select one camera only, Left click on the camera icon. The camera icon turns red when it is
selected.
(2) Recording Mode
The blocks from 00 to 23 represent the time in 24-hour clock. To record in full 24 hours, select the
recording mode and click the ~ button. If you want to only record at a particular time, click the
colored block beside the recording mode then click on the time blocks. When the system starts
recording a red triangle mark would appear at the upper left corner of the screen. The recording
modes are listed below:
- Always Recording
Record the video from the selected camera and save it to the designated storage path (see
also Chapter 4.1 #1).
- Motion Recording
Start recording the video from the selected camera only when the system detects
movement. Once a motion is detected, the system automatically saves the previous frames
and stop based on the Start Record Prior and Stop Record Af ter settings.
- Smart Recording
Automatically switch to record at the maximum frame rate setting once a motion is detected
and if there is no motion, it records at the minimum frame rate setting Set the maximum and
minimum frame rate setting in (7) Frame Rate section.
- Voice Detecting Recording
DVR system will record the sound when the voice exceeds the intensity value in Voice
Detection setting.