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Milestone XProtect ® Essential 2014 Administrator's Manual
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Name Description
Retention time
Total amount of time for which you want to keep recordings from
the camera (that is, recordings in the camera's database as well as
any archived recordings). Default is 7 days.
Retention time covers the total amount of time you want to keep
recordings for. In earlier XProtect Essential versions, time limits
were specified separately for the database and archives.
The template can help you configure similar properties quickly. For example, if you have 20 cameras
and you want a particular frame rate on all of them, you can enter it once in the template, and then
apply the template to the 20 cameras.
Name Description
Apply Template
Select which cameras you want to apply the template for. Use one
of the two Set buttons to actually apply the template.
Select All Click button to select all cameras in the Apply Template column.
Clear All Click button to clear all selections in the Apply Template column.
Apply template on selected
cameras
Apply the value from the template to selected cameras.
Adjust motion detection wizard
The Adjust Motion Detection wizard helps you quickly configure your cameras' motion detection
properties.
Cameras that do not support multiple simultaneous video streams cannot connect to the surveillance
server and the Management Application at the same time. Therefore, Milestone recommends that you
stop the Recording Server service when you configure such devices for motion detection and PTZ.
See also View video from cameras in Management Application (on page 38).
Adjust motion detection: Exclude regions
Disable motion detection in specific areas of cameras' views in the Exclude regions section of the
wizard. Disabling motion detection in certain areas may help you avoid detection of irrelevant motion,
for example if a camera covers an area where a tree is swaying in the wind or where cars regularly
pass by in the background.
Cameras that do not support multiple simultaneous video streams cannot connect to the surveillance
server and the Management Application at the same time. Milestone recommends that you stop the
Recording Server service when you configure such devices for motion detection and PTZ. See also
View video from cameras in Management Application (on page 38).
For each camera for which exclude regions are relevant, use the list in the left side of the wizard
window to select the camera and define its exclude regions. Exclude regions are camera-specific, and
you must configured motion detection individually for each camera on which they are required.