About recording profiles

2025-04-01

A recording profile is a configuration for multiple direct-to-cloud cameras containing predefined camera settings. The profile includes settings to control resolution, frame rate, maximum bit rate, recording location, and the video retention period for multiple cameras.

Default recording profiles

In Security Center SaaS, two default recording profiles are provided to get you started:

Camera edge recording (Default)
Cloud recording (Default)

Note: The default cloud recording profile is used during the enrollment of all direct-to-cloud (D2C) cameras.

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. The default cloud profile is used when enrolling a direct-to-cloud camera. Direct-to-cloud camera profiles can be changed at any time.

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 the recording profiles creation are automatically associated with a Custom settings configuration to retain their camera settings. The selected profile 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.