This exports a snapshot or video.

To configure, set up the following parameters:

  1. Export agent (1) - Select Server (aka Export agent object) to send recording to (see Configuring an Export Agent).

  2. Camera (2) - select a camera for export.  An implicit selection of a video camera is also allowed - Camera that initiated command execution.

    If the start of the macro was triggered by the activation of a sensor or a relay (see Configuring filters for event-driven macros) that is not connected to any camera, you need to select a specific camera here. If you select a group of cameras or a camera that triggered the command, the action will not start.

  3. Archive (3) - select an archive for export.

  4. Sets the export interval (4).

    Option

    Description

    Image export

    Exports a snapshot with the time stamp identical to the start time of action. Important! The image cannot be exported if the video camera does not have an archive.

    Time schedule

    You need to select a time schedule.

    Exports images from within time schedule. Video recording interval - 

    [Beginning of the specified time slot; the end of the specified time slot]

    During

    You should set the export duration in HH: MM: SS. The starting point of the exported video is the command start. End point is defined on the basis of the specified duration -

    (Interval [command start; command start + duration]).

    Finish after

    Select one or more events that will trigger export stop. The starting point of the exported video will be the command start, the end point - the moment of receiving any these events.

  5. You can click the  button to add additional parameters:

    1. File name (6).

    2. Comments superimposed as captions over the exported video (7).

    3. Offset (8). It is the time period before the starting time of the exported video. In the case, the length of the exported video is [start action - (duration + pre-recording time); start action - pre-recording time].

Example: A macro command for automatically exporting video recordings of all alarm events evaluated by operators as "confirmed".