5.4.3 Export

The Export allows user to customize some basic or advanced settings for selected files which will be exported. The page is as below:



Export steps are listed as below:

Step1: Select video which will be exported. You can select video through two ways:

(1) Select the files in the Tags or Locked Files page of the Archive Management window and click button.

(2) Select a period of time on the timeline and select the Export Video option. Then the selected video files will be listed in the bottom of Export Setting page as above.

Step2: Click button to directly export selected files, and you can click button to check task exporting situation as below. For more details about Client Files Management, you can see the table of User Interface Introduction.



In addition, before starting exporting, you can also click button to half split the time of video file, or click button in the Archive Management window to set the exported file. Export settings include General, Text OSD, Image OSD, Timestamp, Transcoding and Privacy Mask. Each setting page is as below:

  • General

The page is as below:



The meanings of the items can be referred to the table below:

Table 1.

Item

Function Introduction

Export Name

Name the exported file name as shown below:

After setting the items and finishing the export of video file, you can see the customized exported files name as shown below in the local storage.

Export Destination

Click button to select storage path of exported files.

Video Format

The avi, mp4, exe, mkv, and asf formats are supported.

Password

Set password for exported video.

Note: This option is available just for exe format.

After setting, you need to enter the password when playing the exported video.

Re-export

Set whether the exported video can be exported again.

Note: This option is available just for exe format.

Export Content

The video, Audio, Video and Audio are supported.
  • Text OSD


Table 2.

Item

Function Introduction

Text to Show

After setting the items, you can see the real-time added text information showed on the thumbnail window as below:

Text Color

Select color for added text, including White, Black, Blue, Yellow, Green and Brown.

Area Width

Adjust area width of text show from 100 to 1920

Front Size

Adjust Front Size from 40 to 400
  • Image OSD


The meanings of the items can be referred to the table below:

Table 3.

Item

Function Introduction

Choose Image

You can choose image saved in local storage to be added to the video file.

After setting the items, you can see the customized image as shown below on the thumbnail.

Opacity

Choose opacity of image added in the video from 100 to 1920.

Image Width

Adjust width of image added in the video from 0-100.

Image Height

Adjust height of image added in the video from 0-100.
  • Timestamp


The meanings of the items can be referred to the table below:

Table 4.

Item

Function Introduction

Date Format

Date format, including YYYY-MM-DD, MM/DD/YYYY and DD/MM/YYYY.

After setting the items, you can see the customized timestamp as shown below on the thumbnail.

Time Format

Time format, including hh:mm:ss and hh:mm:ss AP.

Font Color

The White, Black, Blue, Yellow, Green and Brown are available.

Font Size

Adjust size of font from 10-400.

Including Timezone

Check the checkbox to make the display information include timezone.
  • Transcoding

Timelapse page:



Reduce Data Size page:



The meanings of the items can be referred to the table below:

Table 5.

Item

Function Introduction

Transcoding Type

Timelapse and Reduce Data Size are available.

Initial Length

Initial time length of the exported video. This option is available when choosing Timelapse as Transcoding type.

Speed Up to

Set play speed of the exported video.

Exported Length

The Exported Length varies with the Speed Up to of the exported video, and the unit of Exported Length includes second and minute.

Frame Size

Frame size of the exported video, including Original, 704*576, 352*288 and 320*176. This option is available when choosing Reduce Data Size as Transcoding type.

Bit Rate

Bit Rate of the exported video, including Original, 16kbps, 32kbps, 64kbps, 128kbps, 256kbps, 512kbps, 1024kbps and 2048kbps.

Frame Rate

Frame Rate of the exported video, including Original and these options from 1-25fps.
  • Privacy Mask


The meanings of the items can be referred to the table below:

Table 6.

Item

Function Introduction

Mask Type

Set colors of privacy masks, including White, Black, Blue, Yellow, Green and Brown. After choosing the mask type, you can drag left key of mouse to draw the mask area on the thumbnail as below:

Note: Up to 8 masks can be set.

Clear Masks

Click the button to clear all masks.