About recording profiles

2026-04-14Last updated

A recording profile is a configuration for multiple cameras with predefined camera settings, such as retention period, storage location, resolution, frame rate, and bit rate. You can use a recording profile to quickly configure cameras before or after you add them to your system.

Profile types

Security Center SaaS provides three types of recording profile:
Cloud recording profile
Defines the camera configuration when recording video to the cloud. If your cameras support edge recording, you can configure the profile to have cameras record to an SD card if the cloud connection is lost. After restoring the connection, video is uploaded to the cloud and cleared from the card.
Note:
Video is not available for playback until it has been uploaded to the cloud.
Appliance recording profile
Defines the camera configuration when recording to a Genetec Cloudlink™ appliance.
Edge recording profile
Defines the camera configuration when recording to a local SD card. If the device supports two SD cards and both are inserted, recordings are stored on only one SD card. To verify which card is storing video, see your camera's web page.
CAUTION:
There is no fallback if an SD card fails or becomes unavailable. SD card support requires Axis direct-to-cloud camera to have firmware version 11.11 or later. For details about supported SD cards, see your Axis documentation.

Default recording profiles

Security Center SaaS provides default recording profiles for cloud, appliance, and edge recording. You can modify these profiles to suit your needs, or create custom recording profiles.

If a camera doesn’t support a profile, you can't select the profile. If a camera doesn’t support one or more settings in a profile, the closest value supported by the camera is used instead.

Sensor-specific profiles

If you have a multisensor camera, you have two options to manage recording profiles:
  • Select a single recording profile to apply to all camera sensors.
  • Select sensor-specific profiles that apply to individual camera sensors.

You can manage the single profile from the camera's Settings page. Sensor-specific profiles are controlled from the camera's Sensors page.

When you modify any sensor profile from the sensors Settings page, the camera Settings page updates to show that sensor-specific profiles are now in use.

Custom camera settings

You can use custom camera settings to configure a camera setting that isn’t available through the recording profile configuration. After configuring the custom camera settings, the camera is no longer associated with a recording profile.

Note:
The custom camera settings can only be configured after the camera has been added to Security Center SaaS. This custom settings configuration is performed from the camera Settings tab.

Custom camera settings for multisensor cameras

If you have multisensor cameras, you have two options to configure custom camera settings:
  • Configure custom settings to apply to all camera sensors.
  • Configure sensor-specific custom settings that apply to individual sensors.
You can manage custom settings from the camera Settings tab. Sensor-specific custom settings are controlled from the Sensors > Settings tab.
Note:
In Security Center SaaS, quad-view or stitch-view isn’t supported. Axis provides a fifth stream or lens which stitches all four views into one.