Performance Series HQA Digital Video Recorder Local User Guide
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4. Recording Video
This chapter contains the following sections:
• Manual Record Settings, page 38
• Automatic Record Settings, page 38
Manual Record Settings
In live view mode, you can manually record a clip directly to a connected USB storage device.
To record a video clip in live view mode
1. Connect a USB storage device (such as a USB flash drive) to one of the USB ports on the
DVR.
2. The Find USB device dialog box opens automatically. Right-click to close the window.
3. In live view mode, move the mouse pointer to the top of the channel window to display the
camera toolbar (see Camera Toolbar on page 26).
4. On the camera toolbar, click the Realtime Backup button to start recording. The
button changes to green while the DVR is recording.
5. Click the Realtime Backup button again to stop recording.
The video clip is saved automatically to the connected USB storage device. The file name uses
the following format: [DVR name]_[channel]_[video stream]_[recording start time]_[recording
end time]).dav.
Automatic Record Settings
The DVR supports independent real-time recording of each channel, even while searching
and playing recorded video.
To set up automatic recording, you have to do the following:
1. Select the recording type. (See Configuring General Record Settings on page 39.)
2. Configure the recording schedule. (See Configuring the Video Recording Schedule on
page 39.)
3. Configure the snapshot recording schedule. (See Configuring the Snapshot Recording
Schedule on page 41.)
4. Configure the snapshot recording settings. (See
To configure snapshot recording settings
on page 41.)