Milestone XProtect Express 2014 - Manual (Page 64)

Milestone XProtect ® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 64 Advanced configuration
Time spent on finding the best possible motion detection configuration for each camera helps you
avoid unnecessary recordings. Depending on the physical location of the camera, it may be a good
idea to test motion detection settings under different physical conditions such as day/night and
windy/calm weather.
Before you configure motion detection for a camera, Milestone recommends that you have configured
the camera's image quality settings, for example resolution, video codec and stream settings. If you
later change image quality settings, you should always test any motion detection configuration
afterwards.
In the following two tables, you can see the differences between enabling (table 1) and disabling (table
2) built-in motion detection for a camera.
Enabled motion detection
Recording properties
setting
Recordings
Motion-based
events Non-motion
based events
Sequences
Always Yes Yes Yes Yes
Never No Yes Yes No
Built-in Motion
Detection
Yes Yes Yes Yes
Built-in Motion
Detection & Event or
Event only
Yes Yes Yes Yes
Disabled motion detection
Camera's recording
settings
Recordings
Motion-based
events Non-motion
based events
Sequences
Always Yes No Yes No
Never No No Yes No
Built-in Motion
Detection
No No Yes No
Built-in Motion
Detection and Event or
Event only
Yes (depending
on settings)
No
Yes (depending
on settings)
No
Motion detection sensitivity
Motion detection is per default set up for dynamic sensitivity. However, you can also adjust the
sensitivity level manually under Motion Detection properties.
Milestone recommends that you do not enable manual sensitivity because:

With dynamic sensitivity, the system calculates and optimizes the sensitivity level automatically
and suppresses the motion detections that come from noise in the images.

Dynamic sensitivity improves motion detection at nighttime, where the noise in the images
often triggers false motion.