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Specifying Recording settings
The maximum file duration can include multiple files. For example, if you
specify a five-hour recording duration, but you have entered a file switching
duration (see “File switching duration” on page 37) of one hour, your overall
recording session will stop after four hours and fifty minutes (assuming the
storage media has enough space), but Monarch HD will create five individual
hour-long files.
File switching duration
Enter a
File switching duration to separate your recording session into more
than one file at predetermined intervals. For example, if you enter a duration of
30 minutes, Monarch HD will close the current file and start recording to a new
file every 30 minutes.
The size of the created files (in approximated MBs) is displayed next to the
duration. The file size adjusts depending on the video data rates you set in the
encoding options (see “Target video data rate” on page 32).
Remarks
• The maximum file switching duration you can set is four hours and fifty
minutes.
• If you enter a file switching duration of 0, Monarch HD will automatically
switch to a new file every four hours and fifty minutes. This is a precaution
that will avoid possible data loss that may occur from having files that are
too large.
• On FAT32 storage media, file switching will occur automatically after 4 GB.
This is a limitation of the FAT32 file system architecture. You can stop
recording at any time, either by using the control buttons in the Command
Center (see “Control buttons” on page 26), or the Stream and Record buttons
on the Monarch HD device (see “Streaming and recording” on page 6).
File type
Select the type of file that will be recorded. You can create either an
MOV or
MP4 (MPEG-4) file.
Path and filename
Specify the destination and filename for your recording based on your recording
destination. When specifying the path, all folders in the path must already exist.
Monarch HD will not create new folders. Each recorded filename contains the
base name, date, time, an automatically incrementing 5-digit number, and file
type, using the following naming convention:
Basename-[YYYY-MM-DD_HH-MM-SS].00001.mov or .mp4.
For more information on how to set up shared folders for Windows or Mac OS,
see Appendix B, “Sharing a network folder,” on page 51.
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