Documentation for Axxon PSIM 1.0.0-1.0.1.

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Video recording segment with sound is exported using the playback control panel. The main archive of the video server can be exported as well as the backup archive, the video gate archive and the external archive depending on the playback mode selected (see Archive browsing modes).

Choose Export in the function menu of the video surveillance window and then select Save Recording to AVI.

Parameters of the video and sound, which will be saved, may be configured in the displayed sub-menu.

Compression quality is selected in the standard Windows dialog box.

Select Codec in the dialog box and, if available, compression quality.

Note

Settings of video compression will be ignored if export of the archive period in original format was performed (see Export of the archive period). 

Compression quality of the synchro sound is selected in the standard Windows dialog box.

Choose the audio format in the dialog box and select a set of sound quality parameters, or a pre-defined settings profile.

As soon as recording saving parameters are selected, the video segment may be exported to the file by selecting the Start Saving command. If you want to export a fragment starting from some other frame, not the first one, then play the video up to the desired moment before you start saving.

The Playback button will be highlighted in the course of saving, whereas the playback position indicator will count down the frame currently being processed.

Click the  button after the start of saving for quick export (export of speeded video record). This button double speeds up export of video record. Maximal available speed up is 8 times.

Attention!

If you export a speeded video record, the sound will not be exported. If sound is required, then it is necessary to export without speed-up.

Note

When speeding up the video record export, only the key frames are played back. Hence, only the key frames are saved to the file when exporting.

To terminate export, click or . In this case, only the part of video fragment before the moment you click one of these buttons is exported.

As soon as the video segment saving process is complete, the Playback button is not longer highlighted.

The file containing the saved video recording supported with sound is saved to the C:\Users\%current user name%\Documents\Axxon PSIM\export\ directory. The file name is generated as follows: <camera number> (<date> <time>). For instance, 02 (03-10-07 16'28'06).avi (file extension depends on video compression settings). The path to the video recording folder can be changed using the ExportDir registry key located in HKLM\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\AxxonSoft\Axxon PSIM\Video\AviExport (see Registry keys reference guide).

Note

If captions are added to the video image (see Configuring the captions showing), they will be present in the exported video recording. The caption size is set on the Captioner object settings panel and may change during export if the video resolution is reduced. To enable adaptive title size, use the ExportFontAdaptive registry key (see Registry keys reference guide).

Note

If AVI format is used, the resulting file cannot be bigger than 2 GB.