Milestone XProtect Smart Client 2013 - Manual (Page 144)

Milestone XProtect ® Smart Client
2014
User's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 144 Exporting evidence
Name Description
Select content
Select if you want to export video only, audio only, or both video
and audio.
Select format
Select if you want to export video in AVI format or MKV format.
You cannot use MKV format in XProtect Go.
Codec
A video codec is a particular compression/decompression
technology used when generating video files. Your choice of codec
will affect the quality and size of the AVI file.
The list contains the video codecs available on your PC.
You can change the codec, but we recommend that you keep the
default codec settings, unless you have a good reason to change
these.
The codec that you use must be similar on the computer that you
play the video clip from.
Include timestamps
Select if you want to add the date and time from the surveillance
system to the exported images. The timestamp will be displayed at
the top of the exported video.
Reduce frame rate
Select to reduce the frame rate for the export; every second image
will be included, yet still play back in real-time.
Video texts
Click to open the Video Texts window where you can create pre-
and post-texts for the AVI file. These texts will be added to all
cameras for the export and displayed as still images before (Pre-
slides) and/or after (Post-slides) the video.
Important: When you perform an export in MKV format: if you have not used privacy masking in video
recorded in H.264, JPEG or MPEG-4 formats, no transcoding takes place on recorded video in the
export (the recorded video is kept in the original quality). In contrast, if you have used privacy masking
or have recorded video using any other codec (for example MxPEG or MPEG-4 short header mode),
recorded video is transcoded into JPEG in the export.
Still images settings
If you want to export single video frames, you can export these as still images.
Name Description
Include timestamps
Select if you want to add the date and time from the surveillance
system to the exported images. The timestamp will be displayed at
the top of the exported video.