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This action starts the export of a frame or a video.You must configure the conditions to start a macro beforehand (see

Configuring an action

To configure the action, do the following:

1. Go to the Programming tab.
2. In the Event rules or Cycle rules list, click Create... (see Configuring macros).
3. Select a start condition that triggers a macro (see Configuring start conditions).

To configure, set up the following parameters:

1. Click the Image Added button below start conditions.
2. From the drop-down list, select Camera: Start export.
3. In the Export agent parameter, select a server
Export agent (1)—select the Server
4. (formally the Export agent object) to which you want to export
the
5. a video
recording
6. (see Configuring Export agent).
   
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7. Image Added
8.  In the Camera parameter,
Camera (2)—
9. select a camera, the video from which you want to export.
An
10. In addition, an implicit camera selection
of a video camera is also allowed—
11. is allowed—Camera that initiated command execution (see Configuring start conditions).
    

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    If a macro is

started

12. initiated by an event from

an 

13. an input or output (see Configuring start conditions) that is not connected to any camera, you need to select a specific camera

here

14. for this action. If you select a group of cameras or a camera that initiated the

command

15. macro, the action doesn't start.

Archive (3)—
16. In the Archive parameter, select an archive, the video from which you want to export.
Set

17. In the parameter group, specify the export interval

(4). 

18. :

    Option	Description
    Image export	Exports a frame

with

19. corresponding to the time

stamp identical to the start time of an action. 

20. when the action was started. Note title Attention!

The image

21. Image cannot be exported if the

video

22. camera

does not

23. doesn't have an archive
    Time schedule	You

need to

24. must select a time schedule. Exports images from within the time schedule. Interval of the exported video − [beginning of the specified time schedule;

the

25. end of the specified time schedule]. Note title Attention!

 

26. If you don't specify the offset (see step 5c), the intervals from the time schedule are taken over the last 24 hours
    During	You must set the export duration in HH:MM:SS. The starting point of the exported video is the action start. End point is defined on the basis of the specified duration (interval [action start; action start + duration])
    Finish after

Select

27. You must select one or more events, after receiving which (any of them) export is stopped.

 The

28. The starting point of the exported video is the action start, the end point is the moment of receiving any of these events

29. You can click the
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30. Image Added button to add additional parameters:

    1. File name

(5)

31. 1. —name of the exported file.

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       You can use the following templates for file names and text comments (see Text templates in the action settings): %startTime% , or [START_TIME], or {startTime}

: the starting

32. 1. —start time of exported interval. %finishTime% , or [FINISH_TIME], or {finishTime}

 : the finishing

33. 1. —finish time of exported interval. You can use the following templates for macros started by a text message from an event source (see Configuring start conditions): %startEvent%, or [START_EVENT], or {startEvent}

: an event

34. 1. —event that initiated export start. %finishEvent% , or [FINISH_EVENT], or {finishEvent}

: an event

35. 1. —event that stopped the export.

Comments

36. 1. Comment superimposed as captions over the exported video

(6)

37. 1. .

    2. Offset

(7)

38. 1. is a time period used to roll back the start time of exported video. If you set this this parameter

to non-zero

39. 1. , the time interval of the exported video will be as follows:

40. 1.  [action start − (duration + offset); action start − offset].
       If

exported video(s) fall into

41. 1. export is performed within a time schedule, this parameter is used to

define the start time for video retrieval. For

42. 1. determine the period in the past before the action started for which the export must be performed. For example, if you set the offset to 48 hours, all videos from the given time schedule recorded within 48 hours before the action start are exported.

Example: A macro command for automatically exporting video recordings of all alarm events evaluated by operators as "confirmed".

1. 1. Set the Burn titles checkbox to burn titles on JPEG images and AVI videos.
2. Click the Apply Image Added button.

Configuration of the Start export action is complete.Image Removed