Axis Camera Station User Manual

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AXIS Camera StationHow to...AXIS Camera Station also supports failover recordings. When enabled, a failover recording starts automatically if the connectionbetween the camera and AXIS Camera Station is lost during an ongoing recording. See Failover Recordings, on page 30.For information on how to set up recordings triggered by signals from I/O ports, system alarms, tampering attempts etc, seeEvent Configuration Wizard, on page 43.Continuous and Scheduled RecordingsTo set up a continuous or scheduled recording, follow these steps:1. From the Configuration menu, select Recording Settings.2. Select the camera and click Continuous to open Edit Continuous Recording Settings.3. Check the Enabled box and choose a Profile from the drop-down list or click Change to create a new media profile.4. Under Schedule setting select Always for a continuous recording, or select a schedule from the Custom scheduledrop-down list. Click Edit to revise an existing schedule, or click New to create a new schedule. See Set Up Schedules,on page 39 for more information.5. Click OK to save settings and start recording.Note• Multiple cameras can be configured at the same time.• A continuous recording uses more disk space than a triggered recording.Manual RecordingsA manual recording can be started and stopped from the Live View workspace or the Actions menu:• Open the Live View workspace and click the button that appears in the upper right corner when the mouse pointer isover the camera's live view frame. Click the button again to stop recording.• From the Actions menu, open the Record Manually dialog. Select one or more cameras and click Start to start recording.Click Stop to stop recording.During manual recording, a yellow indicator appears in the upper right hand corner of the live view image.To configure manual recording settings, follow these steps:1. From the Configuration menu, select Recording Settings.2. Select the camera and click Manual to open Edit Manual Recording Settings.3. Choose a Profile from the drop-down list or click Change to create a new media profile.4. Use the sliders to set the Prebuffer and Postbuffer, that is, the number of seconds to include before starting (prebuffer) andafter stopping (postbuffer) the manual recording.5. Click OK to save settings.27