IPC/Camera Configuration

How to Configure Video Settings of IP Camera

Understanding the settings

In order to get the optimal use out of your IP camera(s) first review and understand the following pages:

Advanced

Brightness - makes video feed brighter or darker

Contrast - difference in luminance or colour that makes an object

distinguishable, this varies from blending to separating hue

saturation - difference in black and white to full color. This can cause issues

when compressing an image since it takes more information to process colors.

Also if the picture is oversaturated then it will also cause blurry or

artifacted pixels which will cause less compression in the image to occur.

Sharpness - is the edge contrast among its surroundings, this can blur or define

details in an image. The sharper the image the more noise it will create in a

moving image. This causes the compression to render more of the image which

results in a larger bit stream and saved file size.

Gamma - A nonlinear lighting adjustment used to eliminate blinding whites and

absolute dark areas. Think of this like brighness with contrast included, and

use it to accent darker areas as a fine adjustment.

Anti-Flicker - Used for lights (mostly flourecent lights) to sync up the rate at

which they pulse. This is used if you see indoor lights flickering on the camera

Exposure:

Auto, this will automatically adjust the exposure time and the gain (aka ISO)

for the average lighting setting in the area

Low Noise - This setting will maximize the gain for the ideal exposure. Low

Noise Basicly turns up the ISO to the best setting without sacrificing exposure

timing.

Low Motion Blur - This setting will maximize the fastest exposure time, and will

sacrifice the gain in return.

Manual - This setting lets you select your exposure time and have the gain adjust automatically. Selecting customized range will let you both the gain an adjust the gain manually.