Milestone XProtect Express 2014 - Manual (Page 45)

Milestone XProtect ® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual
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For each camera, you can initially select between two online schedules:

Always on: The camera is always online.

Always off: The camera is never online.
If these two options are too simple for your needs, use the Create / Edit... button to specify online
schedules according to your needs, and then select these schedules for your cameras. This way, you
can specify whether cameras should be online within specific periods of time, or whether they should
start and stop transferring video when specific events occur within specific periods of time.
The template can help you configure similar properties quickly. For example, if you have 20 cameras
and you want a particular frame rate on all of them, you can enter it once in the template, and then
apply the template to the 20 cameras.
Name Description
Apply Template
Select which cameras you want to apply the template for. Use one
of the two Set buttons to actually apply the template.
Select All Click button to select all cameras in the Apply Template column.
Clear All Click button to clear all selections in the Apply Template column.
Apply template on selected
cameras
Apply the value from the template to selected cameras.
Configure storage: Live and recording settings (motion JPEG
cameras)
This wizard page only appears if one or more of your cameras use the MJPEG video format.
Select pre- and post-recording, which allows you to store recordings from the time before and after
detected motion and/or specified events. Also specify which frame rates to use for each camera
(XProtect Enterprise and XProtect Professional only).
Properties available in all XProtect software versions:
Name Description
Pre-recording
You can store recordings from periods preceding detected motion
and/or start events. Select check box to enable this feature. Specify
the required number of seconds in the neighboring column.
Seconds [of pre-recording]
Specify the number of seconds for which you want to record video
from before recording start conditions (that is motion or start event)
are met. Usually, only some seconds of pre-recording is required,
but you can specify up to 65535 seconds of pre-recording,
corresponding to 18 hours, 12 minutes and 15 seconds. However, if
specifying a very long pre-recording time, you can potentially run
into a scenario where your pre-recording time spans scheduled or
unscheduled archiving (see "About archiving" on page 120) times.
That can be problematic since pre-recording does not work well
during archiving.