Boosting video recording quality manually

You can boost the video quality of the recording stream using a manual action.

Before you begin

The video quality settings for the recording stream during Boost quality on manual recording and Boost quality on event recording must be configured in the camera's Video tab.

What you should know

When the video quality is boosted through an action, the custom boost quality settings override the general settings for event recording until you trigger another action, or until the Archiver restarts.

To boost video recording quality manually:

  1. In the Security Desk notification tray, click Hot actions ().
  2. In the Hot actions dialog box, click Manual action.
  3. In the Configure an action window, select one of the following action types, and select a camera:
    • Override with manual recording quality: Click to hide description
      Turn the Boost quality on manual recording option to ON.
    • Override with event recording quality: Click to hide description
      Turn the Boost quality on event recording option to ON.
  4. Click OK.

    The custom boost quality settings for video recording are applied to the selected camera.

  5. To return to the normal recording video quality settings:
    1. In the notification tray, click Hot actions ().
    2. In the Hot actions dialog box, click Manual action.
    3. Select the Recording quality as standard configuration action, and select a camera.
    4. Click OK.