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One You can select and configure video camera parameters as a package several cameras at once and edit their parameters to display them in the Monitorinterface box window.

To select video cameras as a packagein bulk, do the following:

  1. Go to the settings panel
  2. for
  3. of the Monitor interface object.
  4. Click
  5. In the
  6. Range button in the
  7. List of cameras tab
  8. (1)
  9. , click the Range button.
  10. Image Removed
  11. Image Added
    As a result, the Add/Edit Camera Objects
  12. dialog box is displayed
  13. window opens.
  14. Image Removed
  15. Image Added
  16. Select the required cameras in the left list of the Add/Edit Camera Objects
  17. box (1)
  18. window.
  19. Move the selected cameras to the right list by clicking the

  20. Image Removed button (2)
  21. Image Added button.

    Info
    titleNote
  22. .
  23. The right list is the list of cameras selected for displaying in the Monitor

  24. interface box
  25. window.
    The

  26. Image Removed button
  27. Image Added button is used for inverse action, i.e. for moving the selected video cameras from the right list to the left one

  28. (2)
  29. .

    In both lists, you can change the sorting by clicking the column names to make it easier to find the required cameras and their settings.

    As a result, the selected cameras will be displayed in the list on the right of the
  30. the
  31. Add/Edit Camera Objects
  32. box (3)
  33. window.
  34. If it is necessary, select the names of required cameras in the right list for

  35. complex
  36. bulk editing of their parameters

  37. (3)
  38. .

    Note
    titleAttention!
    The same parameters will be set for all selected cameras.
  39. If
  40. In the fps drop-down list, select the required frame rate of a video signal

  41. is to be groomed
  42. to enable decimation of a video signal for transmitting to the Monitor of the Client

  43. , then select the required frame rate of a video signal in the fps drop-down list (4)
  44. .


  45.  
  46. Note
    title
  47. Importantdiscouraged to set additional grooming
  48. Attention!
  49. It is strongly
  50. We strongly discourage you from setting additional decimation and/or compression for video signals displayed on the Server Monitor

  51. :
  52. , as this

  53. will result
  54. results in unnecessary consumption of the Server resources while the video image quality deteriorates.

    Info
    titleNote
  55. .
  56. The selected fps value

  57. is to
  58. must be less than the frame rate

  59. for
  60. of the video

  61. digitising
  62. signal digitized by

  63. a
  64. the video capture

  65. card
  66. device. Otherwise, the frame rate of the video signal will be

  67. the same as the fps of digitising.
    The fps, Compression, Gate, Backup archive and Gateway for backup archive settings are in
  68. equal to the frame rate of the digitization.
    All settings described below belong to the Common data for elements selected on the right group.
    For correct

  69. grooming
  70. decimation of a video stream compressed with the help of H.264 or MPEG4 codecs, the fps value

  71. is to
  72. must be equal to keyframe rate specified in the device (IP

  73. -
  74. camera)

  75. or INTELLECT
  76. or Axxon PSIM settings (see Configuring video compression

  77. section
  78. ).

  79. If video compression level

  80. is to
  81. must be changed for transmitting to the Monitor of the Client, select the required level of video signal compression

  82. in
  83. from the Compression drop-down list

  84. of the Compression column (5)
  85. . Compression level is increased from 0 (no compression) to 5 (maximum compression).

  86.   
  87. Info
    titleNote
  88. .
  89.  If
  90. If the compression level is set for the Client, a video signal on the Server
  91. is to
  92. must be
  93. preliminary
  94. decompressed
  95. , that results in a great load increase on CPU of the Server
  96. beforehand, which leads to a significant increase in the load on the Server CPU.
  97. If the Monitor
  98. is to
  99. must receive live and archive video from the selected cameras via the Gate object, then select the name of this object
  100. in
  101. from the Gate drop-down list
  102. (6)
  103. .
  104. To enable smart search in the archive of the selected cameras, select the VMDA metadata storage object corresponding to the VMDA
  105. trajectories
  106. tracks database
  107. intended to use
  108. for smart search from the VMDA metadata storage drop-down list.
  109. From the Hardware accelerated decoding drop-down list
  110. (7).
  111. , select Do no change (default value, hardware acceleration specified for each camera is used), CPU decoder (blank value), Nvidia decoder, or Intel Quick Sync. Selecting a hardware decoder increases the load on the corresponding CPU. 
  112. If a video archive from the selected camera
  113. is to
  114. must be transmitted to the Monitor from the Backup archive object, then select the name of this object
  115. in
  116. from the Backup archive drop-down list
  117. (8)
  118. .
  119. If the
  120. tansmission
  121. transmission from the Backup archive object is performed via the Gate object, then select the name of this object
  122. in
  123. from the Gateway for backup archive drop-down list
  124. (9)
  125. .
  126. If cameras are used to view video archive from external storage, set the Setup edge storage
  127. check box (10)
  128. checkbox. As a result, for each selected camera, the external storage available to it will be applied.
  129. By default, the
  130. Video Surveillance
  131. Monitor receives a video stream through the Server. If it is necessary to get the video stream not through a Server, but from cameras directly,
  132. in the
  133. from the Connection drop-down list, select Direct
  134. (11)
  135. .
  136. To save the
  137. set
  138. specified parameters, click the Set for cameras selected on the right button
  139. (12)
  140. .
    As a result
  141. set
  142. , the specified parameters will be displayed in the list on the right of
  143. the
  144. the Add/Edit Camera Objects
  145. box (3)
  146. window.
  147. Repeat steps
  148. 6
  149. 5-
  150. 12
  151. 15 for
  152. complex
  153. bulk editing of all required cameras.
  154. To save
  155. all
  156. the
  157. canges
  158. changes and close
  159. the
  160. the Add/Edit Camera Objects
  161. box
  162. window, click
  163. the
  164. the Apply changes and close button
  165. (13)
  166. .
  167. Set
  168. Specified camera settings will be displayed in the List table on the settings panel of the Monitor object
  169. (2)
  170. .
  171. To save
  172. all
  173. the changes, click the Apply button
  174. (3)
  175. .

Video cameras are now selected as a packageBulk selection of cameras is complete.