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This will require less motion (pixel change) to trigger recording to disk. To avoid this adjust the yellow highlighted slider to the LEFT.
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By default the motion threshold is set pretty high so depending on your camera view you will find that the small people moving through the scene will not create enough motion to build past the default threshold and you will miss critical footage. Once the motion (change in pixels) builds beyond a threshold defined by a black line on the red highlighted sliding scale the video starts recording to disk. Se the car moving through the scene below. If you open up Milestone management client and browse to the camera device and select the motion tab you will see these pixel changes or the “motion” depicted on the screen as green highlights on the video. Milestone then analyses the stream for changes in the pixels characteristics and these pixel changes constitute “movement”. Video is streamed to the Milestone XProtect recording server and is buffered and processed in RAM. Milestone processes motion detection on the server side allowing the administrator of the VMS lots of flexibility to adjust sensitivity, block out areas of with constantly moving objects such as trees and streets, enable hardware acceleration and more. What is the motion detection settings in Milestone XProtect? Today we’ll discuss video motion detection on the Milestone XProtect platform and why it is important to change it from its default.