General settings of export consist of:

  1. Export period. It is specified in the Export period from and to fields. When you start the utility, the period is set depending on the initial conditions described in the table:


    Surveillance window condition at the moment of starting the AviExport utilityExport period, the from fieldExport period, the to field
    Live video modeOne hour less than the current system timeCurrent system time
    In the archive view mode, several video fragments were selected in the listStart time of the earliest selected fragmentEnd time of the last selected fragment
    In the archive view mode, the last fragment of the video is selected, which is not on the first frameOne hour less than the current system timeCurrent system time
    In the archive view mode, one video fragment is selectedStart time of the selected fragmentEnd time of the selected fragment
    In the archive view mode, several cameras and several fragments are selectedStart time of the earliest selected fragment of the camera active at the moment of launching AviExportEnd time of the last of the selected fragments of the camera active at the moment of launching AviExport
    Archive view mode without a selected active cameraThe period will be set to the time of the selected fragment of the previous active camera if the camera is in archive mode. If there was no previous active camera, then the time of the selected fragment of any camera in the archive mode will be set if there is only one such camera. In other cases, the last hour will be set (period [one hour less than the current system time;current system time])


  2. Copying of the Axxon Player Portable to the export folder is set in the Player radio button group:

    This setting is only available in the extended mode of the Export window. Click the >> button in the bottom right corner to view the setting. If it is not displayed in the extended mode, set 1 for the AviShowPlayerSection key of the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\AxxonSoft\AxxonPSIM\Video\AviExport registry (see Registry keys reference guide).

    1. If you select No player, then only archive files in the specified format are exported.
    2. If you select Copy player, then AxxonPsim_player_portable.exe file along with archive files are stored in the folder. The file includes a portable version of Axxon Player. Information on how to work with this utility is given in Axxon Player documentation.
    3. If you select Export to exe-file, then the archive is exported to an EXE file that can be played back without Axxon PSIM or Axxon Player installed. If required, it is possible to set a password to open the exported EXE file, which you will need to enter every time you start it. To set a password, do the following:
      1. Click the Configure... button. The Export to exe setup window opens.
      2. Set the Specify password checkbox.
      3. Enter the password and confirm it in the corresponding fields.
      4. By default, all specified password characters are masked. If you want these characters to be displayed, then set the Show password checkbox.
      5. Click the OK button.

        The export of more than 10 streams in the EXE file works as follows:
        Suppose that the following set of streams is exported: 11 different cameras (camera numbers 1-11) where one video stream and two caption streams (camera number and time) are loaded for each camera, and one audio stream is loaded for cameras 1 and 11.
        Once the streams are divided into groups based on the camera, the stream groups are added into a file as long as the file has space for it (the file includes only 10 streams). The remaining groups are added into the file until all stream groups are allocated to the files. The files are named the same, but with a prefix number at the beginning: 1-, 2-, 3-, 4-...
        The streams from the example are exported in the following way:
        File 1: video stream by camera 1 + audio stream by camera 1 + two title streams by camera 1, video stream by camera 2 + two title streams by camera 2, video stream by camera 3 + two title streams by camera 3. Ten streams in total in the 1-AxxonPSIMExport 2025-02-24 11-55-37_279 [1m5s].exe file.
        File 2: video stream by camera 4 + two caption streams by camera 4, video stream by camera 5 + two caption streams by camera 5, video stream by camera 6 + two caption streams by camera 6. Nine streams in total in the 2-AxxonPSIMExport 2025-02-24 11-55-37_279 [1m5s].exe file.
        File 3: video stream by camera 7 + two title streams by camera 7, video stream by camera 8 + two title streams by camera 8, video stream by camera 9 + two title streams by camera 9. Nine streams in total in the 3-AxxonPSIMExport 2025-02-24 11-55-37_279 [1m5s].exe file.
        File 4: video stream by camera 10 + two title streams by camera 10, video stream by camera 11 + audio stream by camera 11 + two title streams by camera 11. Seven streams in total in the 4-AxxonPSIMExport 2025-02-24 11-55-37_279 [1m5s].exe file.

  3. Adding captions to video image. If you set the Add captions checkbox, then video is exported with captions saved in the captions database. Features of adding captions:

    1. If there are captions from POS terminals or ATMs, then these captions are also exported.
    2. If you select the export mode without data conversion, you cannot disable captions overlay—see Selecting the format and recompression for the exported file.
    3. You can configure the parameters of the exported captions—see Setting the parameters of caption export.
    4. We recommend viewing video with captions in the Axxon Player utility (see Axxon Player documentation). The video with captions can also be viewed in other players, for example, in Windows Media Player with the enabled captions display function, though proper display of captions is not guaranteed in this case.
  4. If you set the Video and captions only checkbox, only video and captions are exported without audio (by default, the checkbox is clear). When you export again, this setting is kept.
  5. You can enter a comment in the Comment field. When exporting, it is saved in the “Camera_<camera id>.txt” text file in the folder specified for writing.

  6. Select a folder for export using the button next to the Folder for writing field. The Open button is used for going to the specified folder in the Windows Explorer.
    Features folder selection:

    1. The specified path to the export folder is written to the ExportDir registry key located in HKLM\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\AxxonSoft\Axxon PSIM\Video\AviExport (see Registry keys reference guide). Please note that the same path is used to save video recordings exported from the Monitor or an archive period (see Export and print out).

    2. If a CD or a DVD is selected as the export destination (see The size of the exported file), the Burn a Disc window opens. In this window:

      • enter the disc title;

      • select Like a USB flash drive;

      • click the Next button.

    3. You can add a file to the export result using the AviRequiredAdditionalFilePath key of the HKLM\SOFTWARE\AxxonSoft\AxxonPSIM\Video\AviExport registry (see Registry keys reference guide).

Below is an example of the selected folder contents after export (see Starting export) with the Add captions checkbox set (with captions saved in a separate file) and the Comment field filled in:

General export settings are complete.