Milestone XProtect Essential 2014 - Manual (Page 81)

Milestone XProtect ® Essential 2014 Administrator's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 81 Advanced configuration
When manual recording is enabled, XProtect Smart Client users with the necessary rights can
manually start recording if they see something of interest while viewing live video from a camera which
is not already recording.
If enabled, manual recording can take place even if recording for individual cameras (see "Recording"
on page 92) is set to Never or Conditionally.
When started from XProtect Smart Client, such user-driven recording always takes place for a fixed
time, for example for five minutes.
Name Description
Enable manual recording
Select check box to enable manual recording and specify further
details.
Default duration of manual
recording
Period of time (in seconds) during which user-driven recording take
place. Default duration is 300 seconds, corresponding to five
minutes.
Maximum duration of manual
recording
Maximum allowed period of time for user-driven recording. This
maximum is not relevant in connection with manual recording
started from the Smart Client, since such manual recording will
always take place for a fixed time. In some installations it is,
however, also possible to combine manual recording with third-
party applications if integrating these with XProtect Essential
through an API or similar, and in such cases specifying a maximum
duration may be relevant. If you are simply using manual recording
in connection with the Smart Client, disregard this property.
Frame rate - MJPEG
When you configure video and recording (see "About video and recording configuration" on page 65),
you can specify certain properties for many cameras in one go. Either in order to speed up things, or
because the properties in question are shared by all cameras rather than being specific to individual
cameras.
You can edit all properties on a white background. You cannot edit properties on a light blue
background. Note that all of the Frame rate - MJPEG properties can also be specified individually for
each camera (see "Recording" on page 92) using MJPEG.
Template and common properties
Name Description
Template
The template can help you configure similar properties quickly. Say
you have 20 cameras and you want to change the recording path,
archiving path, and retention time for all of them. Instead of having
to enter the same three pieces of information 20 times, you can
simply enter them once in the template, and then apply the template
to the 20 cameras with only two clicks.
Apply Template
Select which cameras you want to apply the template for. Use one
of the two Set buttons to actually apply the template.