General information

This action starts the export of a frame or video.

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).
4. Click the  button below start conditions.
5. From the drop-down list, select Camera: Start export.
6. In the Export agent parameter, select a server (formally the Export agent object) to which you want to export a video (see Configuring Export agent).
   
7.  In the Camera parameter, select a camera, the video from which you want to export. In addition, an implicit camera selection is allowed—Camera that initiated command execution (see Configuring start conditions).
   

   If a macro is initiated by an event from an input or output (see Configuring start conditions) that is not connected to any camera, you need to select a specific camera for this action. If you select a group of cameras or a camera that initiated the macro, the action doesn't start.

8. In the Archive parameter, select an archive, the video from which you want to export.

9. In the parameter group, specify the export interval:

   Option	Description
   Image export	Exports a frame corresponding to the time when the action was started. Image cannot be exported if the camera doesn't have an archive
   Time schedule	You must select a time schedule. Exports images from within the time schedule. Interval of the exported video − [beginning of the specified time schedule; end of the specified time schedule]. If you don't specify the offset (see step 10c), 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	You must select one or more events, after receiving which (any of them) export is stopped. The starting point of the exported video is the action start, the end point is the moment of receiving any of these events

10. You can click the button to add additional parameters:

    1. File name—name of the exported file.

       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}—start time of exported interval. %finishTime% , or [FINISH_TIME], or {finishTime}—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}—event that initiated export start. %finishEvent% , or [FINISH_EVENT], or {finishEvent}—event that stopped the export.

    2. Comment superimposed as captions over the exported video.

    3. Offset is a time period used to roll back the start time of exported video. If you set this this parameter, the time interval of the exported video will be as follows: [action start − (duration + offset); action start − offset].
       If export is performed within a time schedule, this parameter is used to 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.

    4. Set the Burn titles checkbox to burn titles on JPEG images and AVI videos.
11. Click the Apply button.

Configuration of the Start export action is complete.