Neat benefit to IP cams :)

[Soundy 1]

...I can have my DVR record it on multiple channels with multiple settings For example, I have one channel with a regular masked motion record at 10fps... and another set for a time-lapse, one frame every 60 seconds. Sure, I could do that with an analog camera... using a splitter and losing some quality. I like this way better Plus I can add as many different variations on the concept as I want!

[rory 0]

I dont get it ... we used this feature on DVRs for years .. with any camera connected to it

[Soundy 1]

You get one camera to record on multiple different channels with multiple different settings, without splitting the signal? Really?

 

Here's a case in point: I set the DVR up to record 60-second time-lapse constantly, jumping to 5fps when motion is detected in a certain area. Pretty standard, right? Except those motion records really mess up a nice smooth time-lapse playback. So now I can make two completely independent recordings: one dedicated time-lapse, one motion-triggered.

 

Not something that you're going to use every day, but still something different that could have specific uses.

[rory 0]

Ok i see what you mean. Course a loop through card will do the trick with no loss. But yes neat

 

But No I use Motion Record pretty much standard, hardly ever timelapse. But either way its 3 minute clips and 3 second pre and 3 second post record. Never had an issue with the smoothness of the motion recordings. Ofcourse each DVR has their own method of recording, some do 10-30 second clips. the couple I have set up with timelapse and event (more like 15fps on event, 1fps on timelapse) all function great. Just depends on what DVR it is.

 

Also, with some IP software out there, that extra channel just cost you another $100+ and additional resources from the PC

 

a really neat trick I d like to see is 2 cameras into one single channel .. a BW CCTV camera and then a color MP camera ... switching over depending on a photocell, but cheap like the acti price and in bullet camera form

[Soundy 1]

Ok i see what you mean. Course a loop through card will do the trick with no loss. But yes neat

 

Yeah, but how many times? I could set up all 16 channels on this machine to record the same camera with different parameters

 

But No I use Motion Record pretty much standard, hardly ever timelapse.

 

I don't normally use time-lapse either, but this is just a wide shot of our back yard, and I wanted a time-lapse progression of the changes in weather. But I found setting that up precluded using motion-record of events... unless I set it as a separate motion-alarm recording... but then that messed up my smooth time-lapse flow (steady minute-by-minute progression, interrupted by blocks of slow progression during motion events)... so it occurred to me, I could just record the two separately from the same stream.

 

And I'm not limited to two recordings - I could set one channel that records motion on the railroad tracks in the background at 2fps with low sensitivity, one that does motion in the driveway at 10fps with high detection sensitivity, and yet another for my time-lapse... and so on.

 

I know some others allow you to stack different sensitivity zones for triggering, which Vigil doesn't, but I haven't yet seen one that lets you assign different record settings to each zone within one channel using analog cameras.

 

But either way its 3 minute clips and 3 second pre and 3 second post record. Never had an issue with the smoothness of the motion recordings. Ofcourse each DVR has their own method of recording, some do 10-30 second clips. the couple I have set up with timelapse and event (more like 15fps on event, 1fps on timelapse) all function great. Just depends on what DVR it is.

 

True. I'm dealing with a Vigil here... motion-triggered clips aren't fixed-length, they'll go as short or as long as motion is occurring, with the specified pre- and post- tailings.

 

Extending this concept, IP cams also make it easy to record a single camera on multiple DVRs, no splitters or signal loss needed... something that can be handy for off-site recording and so on.