Help understanding why Blue Iris is recording long clips

[Meza]

I'm new to BI, and getting my head around it - it's a bit of a beast for new users. Powerful but not the most intuitive.

I have some questions around motion triggered recordings and the playback window, which I couldn't find answers to.

Clip window

1. Some clips have a red border around them - what does that mean?

Viewer window

2. When reviewing recordings in the multiple view (screenshot attached), what is the difference between cameras displaying as black screens or a faded out image?

Timeline
3. On my timeline I have some sections which are black, and some which have a teal/blue coloured bar. What does that signify?
4. Where there are motion trigger icons (blue man walking?), some of the icons have a horizontal red bar extending to the right - what does this mean?

Clips/recordings

5. I have my cameras all set up to only record on motion. Some of my clips are 5seconds, 15seconds, 4 minutes etc which is what I'd expect, but some display as 4-5hours long. However when I play one of the 5 hour long clips, it just seems to be made of two tiny clips separated by a number of hours - eg one at 08:43 and another at 14:14. I am so puzzled by what it's telling me.

Thanks for any help getting my head around these concepts.

 

[fenderman]

I'm new to BI, and getting my head around it - it's a bit of a beast for new users. Powerful but not the most intuitive.

I have some questions around motion triggered recordings and the playback window, which I couldn't find answers to.

Clip window
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1. Some clips have a red border around them - what does that mean?

Viewer window
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2. When reviewing recordings in the multiple view (screenshot attached), what is the difference between cameras displaying as black screens or a faded out image?

Timeline
3. On my timeline I have some sections which are black, and some which have a teal/blue coloured bar. What does that signify?
4. Where there are motion trigger icons (blue man walking?), some of the icons have a horizontal red bar extending to the right - what does this mean?

Clips/recordings
View attachment 30631
5. I have my cameras all set up to only record on motion. Some of my clips are 5seconds, 15seconds, 4 minutes etc which is what I'd expect, but some display as 4-5hours long. However when I play one of the 5 hour long clips, it just seems to be made of two tiny clips separated by a number of hours - eg one at 08:43 and another at 14:14. I am so puzzled by what it's telling me.

Thanks for any help getting my head around these concepts.

most of this info is in the help file
timeline will display black when no recording is present...you can actually select a different color for each camera - see camera properties >general>event color. If you have combine and cut set in the record tab, the timeline will sometimes so a long clip, but it its actually a few small clips.

 

[davej]

Yeah, I have something messed up. I have one clip and every new trigger from the camera appends to that one clip.

 

[fenderman]

Yeah, I have something messed up. I have one clip and every new trigger from the camera appends to that one clip.

because you didnt read the help file. That is normal operation by default, its not "messed up".

 

[lcam]

In the camera properties, record tab, you can change the "Combine or cut video each" setting to split the clips.