navigating continous recordings - in smart way?

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veert

Young grasshopper
Jul 27, 2018
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Hello everyone.

First off, I am aware, thanks to this forum, that I can use continuous recording while leaving Motion Detection on, which will let me navigate the resulting clips afterwards.

Now, let's say, I have to use continuous recording because I'm not confident in the motion detection function. Given my reasons for recording continuously, the question becomes - since I can't rule out that Blue Iris will miss some events, is there a way to detect those manually other than watching the entire clip?

Thanks!
 
Two options...You can play them back at 8x or 16x speed but that can push your CPU utilization through the roof. You can use UI3 to view the clips. Start one and pause it, then drag the cursor on the time line to get sort of a "high speed", preview effect.
 
awsum140 said:
Two options...You can play them back at 8x or 16x speed but that can push your CPU utilization through the roof. You can use UI3 to view the clips. Start one and pause it, then drag the cursor on the time line to get sort of a "high speed", preview effect.
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blue iris can playback up to 256x. If you are not at you limits in cpu, it should do so with no issues.
 
veert said:
Hello everyone.

First off, I am aware, thanks to this forum, that I can use continuous recording while leaving Motion Detection on, which will let me navigate the resulting clips afterwards.

Now, let's say, I have to use continuous recording because I'm not confident in the motion detection function. Given my reasons for recording continuously, the question becomes - since I can't rule out that Blue Iris will miss some events, is there a way to detect those manually other than watching the entire clip?

Thanks!
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If you set the motion detection to be over sensitive it will never miss an event.
 
awsum140 said:
Two options...You can play them back at 8x or 16x speed but that can push your CPU utilization through the roof. You can use UI3 to view the clips. Start one and pause it, then drag the cursor on the time line to get sort of a "high speed", preview effect.
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Got it. Much appreciated.
 
veert said:
Well, I would certainly expect it to miss fewer events. But to never miss one? Why are the Cliff Notes mentioning failure to record continuously as a typical mistake, then?
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because motion detection is not setup correctly. If you err on the side of too sensitive, you will never miss anything, ever.
 
fenderman said:
because motion detection is not setup correctly. If you err on the side of too sensitive, you will never miss anything, ever.
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Okay. so continuous recording is a [expensive] precaution to make up for potential detection gaps.
My personal problem with the "setup correctly" bit in your suggestion is that don't trust my own abilities to achieve that goal. I surely can handle the gray rectangles, but Simple vs. Gaussian? High definition? Too many variables.
I surely understand, all of them are justified, but to err on the safe side, it's easier to just set up continuous, no?
 
veert said:
Okay. so continuous recording is a [expensive] precaution to make up for potential detection gaps.
My personal problem with the "setup correctly" bit in your suggestion is that don't trust my own abilities to achieve that goal. I surely can handle the gray rectangles, but Simple vs. Gaussian? High definition? Too many variables.
I surely understand, all of them are justified, but to err on the safe side, it's easier to just set up continuous, no?
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yes its easier..leave simple, dont use high def. Just lower the make time, size and contrast until it picks up everything.
 
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