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General information

This macro allows you to record events to the archive and stop recording after certain conditions are met.

Configuring an action

To configure recording To configure Record to archive, 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
camera or a
4. start condition that triggers a macro (see Configuring start conditions).
5. Click the Image Added button below start conditions.
6. From the drop-down list, select Camera: Start recording.
7. In the Camera parameter, select a camera or group of cameras,
the
8. video from which you want to record to the archive
(1). An implicit selection of a camera is also allowed—
9. . In addition, an implicit camera selection is allowed—Camera that initiated command execution
(see Configuring start conditions)
10. .
    
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    Note
    title Attention!
    If a macro is

started

12. initiated by an event from an input or output (

see 

13. 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.

Select
16. In the Record to parameter, select an archive to
write
17. record to
(2)
18. .
Specify
19. In the parameters of the Finish after group, specify the conditions that end recording.

    Condition	Description
    Timer

(3)

20. Only a timer value is set. Recording stops

according to the time setting

21. after a specified time

    Event filter

(5)

22. 	One or several events are set, the timer is set to 00:00:00. Recording stops when any event from the filter occurs
    Timer

(3)

23. +

Event

24. event filter

(5)

25. One or several events are set, the timer is set to non-zero. Recording stops when the set time interval expires after any event from the filter occurs

Timer (3)

26. Timer + OR checkbox

(4)

27. +

Event

28. event filter

(5)

29. One or several events are set, the timer is set to non-zero, the OR checkbox is set. In this case, the recording stops when any of the two conditions occurs first: after the time interval expires or when any event from the filter occurs

    Info
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    You can set the OR checkbox only if the timer setting is not 00:00:00. An implicit selection of an event is

allowed—

30. allowed—Last event for condition that initiated execution

(see Configuring start conditions)

31. . For example, if the event that initiated the execution of the command

was the Start time of detection tool trigger

32. is Triggering start from any type of

detection tools

33. detector, then the end event

will be the End time of detection tool trigger

34. is Triggering end from the same

tool

35. detector.

Set

36. In the Prerecord, sec parameter, set the prerecord time

(6)

37. in seconds. The maximum prerecord time is 30 seconds.
    

    Note
    title Attention!
    By default, the prerecord time interval is set to the value specified in the archive settings (see Configuring recording to an archive). The duration of the prerecord time corresponds to the longest value among the set values. Changing

this

38. the value of the prerecord time in a specific macro does not affect the archive settings.

If
39. In the Recording frame rate parameter, enter the required frame rate value if you have cameras in continuous recording mode (see Configuring recording to an archive) and you want to
record with a specific FPS (see example 2), to
40. change
the
41. frame rate
, enter the required frame rate (7)
42. in some cases. After the macro completes, recording resumes at the frame rate specified in the archive settings.
    You can use special values:

    • 0

—do

43. • —do not change the current frame rate (default).

    • -1

—record

44. • —record only key frames.

    • 1000

—record

45. • —record at the standard FPS of the camera.

      Note
      title Attention!
      FPS for prerecord doesn't change. If the macro is set to complete some time after a specified event is received

(see step 3)

46. • , the frame rate changes for this time. When decimating all video streams except MJPEG, only

keyframes

47. • key frames are saved, so we recommend using special values for

them

48. • them -1 and 1000. If you specify a custom frame rate, decimation is performed by key frames. In MJPEG video stream all frames are key frames, so it makes sense to set an explicit frame rate value for it.

49. Click the Apply Image Added button.

Configuration of the Start recording action is complete.

Example use

Example 1

.A macro to initiate start recording to the archive when the Motion detection motion detector generates an event from on any camera within the the Default Axxon-domain (see see Configuring start conditions).
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Example 2

. All cameras from the the Default Axxon-domain are set to continuously record video with decimation to the archive (see see Configuring recording to an archive). To record A macro records to the archive by events from the Motion detection at full FPS, the following macro must be configured:
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