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Select a video device
Aim To select the cameras for recording. Prerequisites Your devices are connected to the computer with MediaRecorder, and, if applicable, switched on. MediaRecorder is open. You opened the Video Settings window. To do so, choose File > Video Settings, o...
Select an audio device
Aim To select the audio source. Prerequisites Your devices are connected to the computer with MediaRecorder, and, if applicable, switched on. MediaRecorder is open. You opened the Video Settings window. To do so, choose File > Video Settings, or click V...
Video file options
Aim To specify one of the following: Format of the recording timer. See Timer format Maximum recording time Video file output: separate videos, or one video with the images from all the cameras. See Output settings Prerequisites Your devices are ...
Record your videos
Aim To create video files from the video stream of the connected recording devices. Prerequisites Your devices are connected to the computer with MediaRecorder, and, if applicable, switched on. MediaRecorder is open. You selected the cameras and, option...
Change the video file location
Aim To save the videos in another location than the default one. The default location where MediaRecorder stores its video files is: D:\Noldus\MediaRecorder\Video Files — If Noldus IT installed your system C:\Users\Public\Public Documents\Noldus\MediaRecor...
Set video file base name
Aim To select a word or phrase to start the video file name with. The video file name consists of the File base name followed by: The video input name. The date and the time the videos were recorded. The number of the video camera. Example – The File...
Select or deselect videos for recording
Aim To choose from which video sources to record video files. Prerequisite You selected the recording devices in the Video Settings window. See Select a video device Procedure Select or deselect video sources for recording in the Use column.
Mute audio in preview
Aim To mute audio sources in MediaRecorder. The muted audio is recorded normally in the video files. Prerequisite You selected microphones in the Video Settings window. See Select an audio device Procedure Select the audio sources you wish to mute in the...
Change video order in preview
Aim To change the order of the video cameras, for example to change the position of the images in a Picture in Picture recording. Prerequisite You selected the recording devices in the Video Settings window. See Select a video device Procedure Drag and...
Show frame rate, resolution and format
Aim To display hidden rows in the table with video devices. Procedure Right-click one of the column headers and select the preferred options. Notes The Format column shows the color space of the video file. The column is hidden by default, because the...
Refresh the preview
Aim To display video images in the preview after a temporary connection loss or if you connected a camera after you opened MediaRecorder. Procedure Click the Refresh button.
See which preview image comes from which camera
Aim To see which image comes from which camera. Prerequisite You selected the recording devices in the Video Settings window. See Select a video device Procedure Press the Identify button. Result — Numbers are superimposed on the camera images. These ...
Show or hide recording properties
Aim To show or hide the table under the preview of the camera images, so that the space for the preview images is increased. Procedure Click Recording properties. Result The size of preview images is increased.
Save the camera settings
Aim To make a configuration file that can be used to open the correct cameras, microphones and video settings. Prerequisites Your devices are connected to the computer with MediaRecorder, and, if applicable, switched on. MediaRecorder is open. You selec...
Pan, Tilt, Zoom control with IP cameras
Aim To change the camera view in MediaRecorder. Prerequisites Your IP camera supports ONVIF Profile S. Your IP camera can Pan, Tilt and Zoom. The camera is selected in MediaRecorder. See Select a video device Procedure Hover with your mouse over th...
Enter a default user name and password of IP cameras
Aim To enter the ONVIF user name and ONVIF password of IP cameras only once, in case you have several cameras with the same credentials. Procedure Choose File > Preferences > IP camera settings. Select Use default IP camera user name and password. Enter...
Use commands
Aim To control video recording with another program that can send commands, for example, EthoVision XT. Prerequisites Your devices are connected to the computer with MediaRecorder, and, if applicable, switched on. You selected cameras, microphones and vi...
Picture by Picture resolution
The highest allowed resolution of a recorded video is 1920 x 1280. The resolution of a Picture by Picture video is a sum of the separate videos. However, if that exceeds a width of 1920 pixels or a height of 1280 pixels, the video resolution is adjusted propor...
Record video
Main topics To get started Select a video device Select an audio device Video file options Record your videos Options Save the camera settings Use commands to control video recording with other software. Picture by Picture resolution
Options
What do you want to do? Change the video file location Set video file base name Select or deselect videos for recording Mute audio in preview Change video order in preview Show frame rate, resolution and format Refresh the preview See which preview i...