User Manual

Chapter 10: Recording
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2. Select a holiday period from the list and click Edit to modify the settings. The Edit
screen appears.
3. Enter the name of the holiday period and click Enable.
4. Select whether the holiday period will be categorized by date, week or month and
then enter the start and end dates.
5. Click Apply to save the settings and then OK to return to the Edit screen.
6. Repeat steps 2 to 5 for other holiday periods.
7. Click Back to return to live view.
Manual recording
The recorder lets you manually record video during live view. This can be useful if you
know that the recorder is not currently recording and you see something of interest on a
camera screen that should be recorded.
Once a manual recording is started, the recording continues until it is manually stopped.
If an alarm occurs during a manual recording, the alarm recording has priority over the
manual recording. If a scheduled recording is already in progress when a manual
recording is started, it continues to record as scheduled.
You can check to see if a camera is recording manually by looking at the icon on the
quick access toolbar. The icon is red when manually recording. Default is off.
Manually recorded video is identified in the color-coded timeline shown in playback (see
“Searching and playing back recorded video” on page 76).
There are two ways to start and stop a manual recording:
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Use the quick access toolbar
You can start/stop manual recording for each camera individually. Position the
cursor over a camera image and left- click the mouse to display the quick access