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This action starts the export of a snapshot frame or a video. You must configure the conditions to start a macro beforehand (see Configuring filters for event-driven macros).

To configure, set up the following parameters:

Configuring an action

To configure the action, do the following:

1. Go to the Programming tab.
2. In the Event rules or Cycle rules list, click Create... (see Configuring macros).
3. Select a start condition that triggers a macro (see Configuring start conditions).
4. Click the Image Added button below start conditions.
5. From the drop-down list, select Camera: Start export.
6. In the Export agent parameter, select a server
Export agent (1)—select the Server
7. (formally the Export agent object) to which you want to export
the
8. a video
recording
9. (see Configuring Export agent).
   
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11.  In the Camera parameter,
—
12. select a camera
for
13. , the video from which you want to export.
An
14. In addition, an implicit camera selection
of a video camera is also allowed—
15. is allowed—Camera that initiated command execution (see Configuring start conditions).
    

    Note
    title Attention!
    If

the start of the macro was triggered by the activation of

16. a macro is initiated by an event from an input or output (see Configuring start conditions

for event-driven macros

17. ) that is not connected to any camera, you need to select a specific camera

here

18. for this action. If you select a group of cameras or a camera that

triggered

19. initiated the

command

20. macro, the action

will not

21. doesn't start.

Archive (3)—
22. In the Archive parameter, select an archive
for
23. , the video from which you want to export.
Set

24. In the parameter group, specify the export interval

(4). 

25. :

    Option	Description
    Image export	Exports a

snapshot with

26. frame corresponding to the time

stamp identical to the start time of action.

27. when the action was started. Note title Attention! Image

Important! The image

28. cannot be exported if the

video

29. camera

does not

30. doesn't have an archive
    Time schedule	You

need to

31. must select a time schedule. Exports images from within the time schedule.

Video recording interval

32. Interval of the exported video − [

Beginning

33. beginning of the specified time

slot

34. schedule;

the

35. end of the specified time

slot

36. schedule]. Note title

During:

37. Attention! If you don't specify the offset (see step 10c), the intervals from the time schedule are taken over the last 24 hours
    During	You must

You should

38. set the export duration in HH:MM:SS. The starting point of the exported video is the

command

39. action start. End point is defined on the basis of the specified duration

−

40. (

Interval

41. interval [

command

42. action start;

command

43. action start + duration])

    Finish after

Select

44. You must select one or more events

that will trigger export stop

45. , after receiving which (any of them) export is stopped. The starting point of the exported video

will be

46. is the

command

47. action start, the end point

−

48. is the moment of receiving any of these events

49. You can click the
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50. Image Added button to add additional parameters:

    1. File name

(5)

51. 1. —name of the exported file.

       Note
       title Attention!
       You can use the following templates for file names and text comments (see Text templates in the action settings): %startTime% , or [START_TIME], or {startTime}

: the starting

52. 1. —start time of exported interval. %finishTime% , or [FINISH_TIME], or {finishTime}

 : the finishing

53. 1. —finish time of exported interval. You

may

54. 1. can use the following templates for macros

triggered

55. 1. started by a text message from an event source (see Configuring start conditions

for event-driven macros

56. 1. ): %startEvent%, or [START_EVENT], or {startEvent}

: an event that triggered exporting

57. 1. —event that initiated export start. %finishEvent% , or [FINISH_EVENT], or {finishEvent}

: an event

58. 1. —event that stopped the export.

Comments

59. 1. Comment that is superimposed as captions over the exported video

(6)

60. 1. .

    2. Offset

(7)

61. 1. is a time period used to roll back the start time of exported video. If you set this this parameter

to non-zero

62. 1. , the time interval of the exported video will be as follows:

63. 1.  [action start − (duration + offset); action start − offset].
       If

exported video(s) fall into a specific slot on Time

64. 1. export is performed within a time schedule, this parameter is used to

define the start time for video retrieval. For

65. 1. determine the period in the past before the action started for which the export must be performed. For example, if you set the

Offset (GUI: Buffer)

66. 1. offset to 48 hours, all videos from the given

Time

67. 1. time schedule

slot

68. 1. recorded within 48 hours before the action start

will be exported.

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

1. 1. are exported.

   2. Set the Burn titles checkbox to burn titles on JPEG images and AVI videos.
2. Click the Apply Image Added button.

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