4kX settings help

[Timokreon]

Hello all, 4kx 3.6 camera.

I've just realized that after putting in new light bulbs in my garage exterior lights, I haven't changed my settings at all.
Last night we had a door checker walking right in front of my garage door, but I'm thinking maybe the picture should be better?

Any suggestions? Attached is the door checker, and my camera settings.

 

[bigredfish]

Not bad really. Is that a 3.6mm or 2.8? They do have tight focus areas

Two things I would change that work together to some degree
1- dial DNR back if possible (even 5 points can help)
2 - sacrifice a little shutter. Meaning drop back to 0-2 or 0-3 which should still freeze most objects and humans but allow more light

Is that a full main stream capture? Its only 2MB.
What bitrate are you running? Recommend 16,384 , CBR

 

[Timokreon]

Running 12,000 CBR. The picture I think is main stream... I'm not even 100% sure. How does one tell? I just went on my laptop, hit photo capture, and it states it's going to be 5MB, but then it saves to 2MB?

So maybe 46 for 2d and 3d DNR?

 

[bigredfish]

Yeah worth a shot. And go to at least 0-2 to compensate with a little more light. You have to play with it, you have good ambient light close in

Weird, my jpeg snaps from SmartPSS are 4.5MB

 

[Timokreon]

Here's a capture with PNG.

 

[bigredfish]

Just fine tuning from there.
I would try 16386 and h.264.h

 

[Mike A.]

Try taking sharpness down to ~30-35. That can help get rid of some of the "jags" in the detail. Also reducing saturation seems to help mine some with color at night. Seems to get a little more distortion with more colorful areas (see the stop sign and the red collar/shirt/bag for example).

I'd probably tweak that with a few steps more contrast myself.

 

[bigredfish]

Good catch, I run Sharpness at 38-40

 

[Timokreon]

Ok, knocked sharpness down to 37. Saturation down to 47. Shutter to 0-2.
Upped to 16386, already had h.264.h

 

[Mike A.]

Send the kid out again... we need movement to judge. ; )

Also, do you have some sort of backlighting turned on?

 

[Timokreon]

Send the kid out again... we need movement to judge. ; )

I'll step out tomorrow night if nobody is out tonight. Watching the hockey games.

 

[berto01]

Yeah worth a shot. And go to at least 0-2 to compensate with a little more light. You have to play with it, you have good ambient light close in

Weird, my jpeg snaps from SmartPSS are 4.5MB

Wow that looks real good. I guess I need to play with mine.

 

[bigredfish]

Every scene is different. Ambient light, distance to primary capture point, speed of targets, etc. I’ve probably got 30 hours in that and I’ll probably mess with it again