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Custom camera settings allow you to configure camera options that are not available through recording profiles. After custom camera settings are applied, the camera is no longer associated with a recording profile.

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        Custom camera settings allow you to configure camera options that are not available through recording profiles. After custom camera settings are applied, the camera is no longer associated with a recording profile.
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Custom camera settings

2026-08-24

Custom camera settings allow you to configure camera options that are not available through recording profiles. After custom camera settings are applied, the camera is no longer associated with a recording profile.

Custom camera settings can only be configured after the camera has been added to Security Center SaaS by selecting the Custom recording profile and making changes from the camera's Settings page.

Using custom camera settings on multisensor cameras

If you have a multisensor camera, you can configure custom settings in one of the following ways:

Configure custom settings to apply to all of a camera's sensors from the camera's Settings page.
Configure sensor-specific custom settings that apply to individual sensors from the camera's Sensors page.