About recording profiles

2025-06-19

A recording profile is a configuration for multiple cameras containing predefined camera settings, including settings for retention period, storage location, resolution, frame rate, and bit rate.

Default recording profiles

In Security Center SaaS, three default recording profiles are provided to get you started in managing storage locations and retention settings:

Appliance recording (Default)
Camera edge recording (Default)
Cloud recording (Default)

All recording profiles contain the following settings:

Video: resolution, frame rate, and maximum bit rate.
Storage: recording location and video retention period.

The default recording profiles can’t be deleted. However, they can be used as a starting point and modified to suit your needs.

Using a recording profile, you can quickly configure or update the recording and storage settings for multiple cameras either before or after camera enrollment.

When a camera doesn’t support a profile, the profile or its associated settings aren’t displayed. If a camera doesn’t support one or more of the recording profile settings, the closest value supported by the camera is used instead.

If required, you can add more recording profiles with different settings to suit each of your use cases.

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 are applied individually to each camera sensor.

You can manage the single profile from the camera Settings tab. For sensor-specific profiles, they are controlled from the camera Sensors tab.

Note:

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

You can return all camera sensors back to a shared single profile using the Associate cameras with profile function.

Custom camera settings

Any cameras enrolled before recording profiles existed are automatically associated with a Custom settings configuration to retain their camera settings. The profiles and settings for those cameras can be changed later.

Custom camera settings can also be used when a specific camera configuration is required that isn’t available through the recording profile configuration. Once the custom camera settings are configured, the camera is no longer associated with a recording profile.

Note:

The custom camera settings can only be configured after camera enrollment. This custom settings configuration is performed from the camera Settings tab.

Camera settings tab in Genetec Configuration web showing a custom settings configuration.

Custom camera settings for multisensor cameras

If you have multisensor cameras, you have two options to configure custom camera settings:

Select a multisensor camera, then configure custom settings to apply to all camera sensors.
Select a multisensor camera, then configure sensor-specific custom settings to apply to each sensor individually.

You can manage custom settings from the camera Settings tab. For sensor-specific custom settings, they are controlled from the Sensors > Settings tab.

Note:

In Security Center SaaS, quad-view or stitch-view isn’t supported. Axis provides a 5th stream or lens which stitches all four views into one.