the issue is that every so often, motion recordings start showing a ghosting/artifacting effect for the moving object
I have my camera (Amcrest ProHD) set to 15FPS. I noticed that when this happens, if I got to the Video tab for the camera, it shows an FPS of 17 (while the General tab is actively showing an avg of 15FPS). If I drop this back to 15, then it records fine again and the clips look good (direct to disc). I emailed support about the FPS showing up in the video tab, and they say it's a cosmetic issue, that BI adjusts to what the camera is sending and if it ever detects something higher, then that's what it shows in the video tab. I even set that FPS to 30 in the video tab and it just stays at 30. It seems to show the high water mark for the FPS.
I assumed my issue was that setting somehow. But maybe it's me making a change and saving and BI resetting itself for the camera feed. I want to run BI3 for a while just to see if it shows up there too. I may just use BI4 and see if making a simple change elsewhere and saving it would cause recordings to look good for a while as well.