Input/suggestions for night time footage

[TheE]

The good, bad, or ugly -- any constructive criticism would be greatly appreciated!

Camera: Dahua 5231R-ZE

Video settings:



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Picture:



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Exposure:



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Backlight:



WB: Auto

Day & Night: B/W

IR Light: Manual - 63

 

[fenderman]

Are you recording direct to disk in blue iris? Try increasing your bitrate to 4096

 

[TheE]

Are you recording direct to disk in blue iris? Try increasing your bitrate to 4096

Yes, sir, I am recording direct to disk... I'll increase the bitrate now; is there anything in particular I should be looking for after I make the change?

 

[TheE]

Bitrate @ 4096:

 

[TheE]

Are you recording direct to disk in blue iris? Try increasing your bitrate to 4096

Yes, sir, I am recording direct to disk... I'll increase the bitrate now; is there anything in particular I should be looking for after I make the change?

**Correction** This camera was NOT recording direct to disk on the first video. The second video with the bitrate at 4096 was recorded direct to disk. Sorry about that.

 

[handinpalm]

May want to add a timestamp embedded on your video and sync to a NTP server.

 

[TheE]

May want to add a timestamp embedded on your video and sync to a NTP server.

Thank you. I do want to do this... I'm still trying to figure out how to set this up properly.

 

[bigredfish]

First, it aint all that bad as it is.

Kinda tough to diagnose because there's so many settings that affect each other.

Things I'd try one at at time:

- Match FPS and Iframe - both 15
- Humor me and bump bitrate to 8192
- Backlight may be part of the problem. Try with it off
- Try 1/30 and 1/60 with Backlight off. about 0-50 Gain
- DNR as low as you can stand, but you dont have much noise
- Play with that Gamma setting a bit, Ive rarely moved it from default 50 with any success...

 

[TheE]

First, it aint all that bad as it is.

Kinda tough to diagnose because there's so many settings that affect each other.

Things I'd try one at at time:

- Match FPS and Iframe - both 15
- Humor me and bump bitrate to 8192
- Backlight may be part of the problem. Try with it off
- Try 1/30 and 1/60 with Backlight off. about 0-50 Gain
- DNR as low as you can stand, but you dont have much noise
- Play with that Gamma setting a bit, Ive rarely moved it from default 50 with any success...

Thanks for the input!! If the kiddos go down easy this evening, I’ll start tonight with some of your suggestions.