VideoIQ User Guide77
2. The Preview type drop-down menu allow you to see either your alarm or non-
alarm videos based on the current bitrate and storage compression settings.
To preview high-quality video, select the Alarm Video option.
To preview the low-quality, continuous record video, select the Non-alarm
Video option.
3. The iCVR allows recording and monitoring of 2 video streams: a high-quality
video stream for alarms, and a low-quality video stream that can be used to
record continuously. If you want to continuously record low-quality video
select Video or Video with Audio. When you choose Video with Audio you
will be asked to read and accept a privacy warning.
If you do not want to record continuously select None. This will ecord event
video only.
Note: Recording video with audio will double the size of the alarm clips.
4. The Disk Clean-up option allows you to decide which files are deleted when
the storage within the iCVR is filled. Selecting Delete non-alarm files first
will keep alarm files and delete continuous recording files first.
Note: After months of usage, this could result in only 1 days worth of continuous
recordings and the rest of the disk will retain alarm files.
If you select Delete any files based on age, this will delete the oldest files
first.
5. Use the Estimated average alarm activity option buttons to specify the
expected number of alarms. This is used to estimate the number of days that
video will be stored on the iCVR hard disk.
Typical - Alarm events occur up to 30% on average.
High - Alarm events occur 30%-50% on average.
Virtually continuous - Alarm events are occurring more than 50% of the
time on average.
6. Click the Modify button to change the Resolution, Frame Rate and Bit Rate
for alarm and non-alarm recording. Available rates will change based on the
resolution chosen.
7. Use the Pre-alarm Recording drop-down menus to specify the number of
seconds prior to an alarm being triggered that are recorded for full alarm
events or an alarm clip.
8. The Storage Capacity field reflects the size of the camera’s disk space.
9. Days of Storage reflects the number of days of storage based on the settings
you’ve selected.
10. Click Apply. Review the quality of the video in the Preview window and make
any configuration adjustments necessary.
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