Recording
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Select a Microphone before configuring any Channels if you wish to Embed Audio &/or Save audio as a separate file.
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Embed Audio - Select if you wish to include audio narration with your video recording.
Option to embed audio and/or save it as a separate mp3 file. Feature auto-disables when no audio input is selected and does not record/embed audio.
Save audio as a separate file - Select if you wish to have audio recorded to a separate .mp3 file.
Smart Encoding - Automatically selects the best available encoder and bitrate based on your selected input resolution.
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Save the Inspector audio as a separate file -Inspector video & audio for each active Channel by default use to be saved in two sperate files (per active Channel), an audio and a video file. Now the default is to save both audio & video into a single file (per active Channel).
Select “Save the Inspector audio as a separate file” option if you prefer to have your audio and video files separate.
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When Smart Encoding is turned off, the following fields are available for you to manually select values for these options.
Encoder: n264 or mpeg4
BitRate (Mbps): Slide adjuster, range 1-100
Resolution:
Auto
3840x2160
1920x1080
1280x720
720x480
Framerate (fps):
Auto
30
20
15
5
Split Time (Minutes): Set the amount of time before a recorded video file splits.
Reevaluate tags on split: When selected, will modify the filename of recorded video files each time they split according to the tags in the Filename Template.
“Tags” referrer to these parameters for Filename settings ${yyyy}${MM}${dd}-${hh}${mm}${ss}-${channel} also ${fff} for milliseconds.
When Settings → Recording → “Reevaluate tags on split” is set to Off, you’ll get files named the original way with _1, _2, _3 etc in filename.
01-02-03_1.mpg
01-02-03_2.mpg
01-02-03_3.mpgWhen Settings → Recording → “Reevaluate tags on split” is set to On , you’ll get files names that include the Split time stamp.
See Section Record & Framegrab section