CCTV Camera Pros Geovision 8.5 Multicam Digital Surveillance System User Manual

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Advanced Merge

Advanced Merge allows you to merge several AVI files into a big single file or into a number of files of a

set duration.

1. On the function panel, click the Save as AVI button (No. 2, Figure 4-2) and select Advanced

Merge. This dialog box appears.

Figure 4-15

2. In the Time Period section, specify Start and End time to locate files. The number of video and

audio files for each camera found within the specified time is displayed on the left camera list. For

example, “Camera 9 18+0” means the Camera 9 has created 18 video files and 0 audio files

within the specified time. By default you can only merge the files of one day.

3. In the Merge Mode section, select one of the merging methods:

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Single File: Merges several AVI files into a single file. The maximum size of the merged file is

2 GB for FAT32 file system and 4 GB for NFTS file system. If the merged file exceeds the limit

of Windows file system, it will be split up into another file.

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Multiple Files: Merges AVI files into several files of a specific duration. After specifying the

duration, you can see the number of merged files will be created.

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Direct Merge (Higher Speed): The merging method only joins video files together without

the inclusion of their video effects, such as privacy masks, watermarks, time stamps, GPS

data and etc.

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