Best night setting for recording people walking

[105437]

I'm really only concerned with getting a good night recording of people walking within a 20' radius of my LTS CMIP2032 camera. My current settings don't do a very good job in that there is a good deal of blur when someone is walking slowly. I'd like to hear any suggestions for changes to my settings. Thanks!


Exposure: 1/30 (Gain 100)
BLC & WDR: Off
White Balance: Natural Light
DNR: On (Level 100)

 

[Q™]

Your DNR and WDR settings are also going to come into play to optimize your night image 105437 but I'm not certain what you need. If you're running 20FPS I would set my iFrame at 20 also.

 

[105437]

Your DNR and WDR settings are also going to come into play to optimize your night image 105437 but I'm not certain what you need. If you're running 20FPS I would set my iFrame at 20 also.

Thanks @Q2U... I'll change iFrame to 20 and about posting what it looks like.

 

[nayr]

those encoding settings dont do anything for your night image, you want to change your exposure settings; thats whats causing the blur..

 

[Q™]

Also set the camera's receive buffer in Blue Iris to 20mb. I'll leave it at that until someone who knows what they're doing shows up to help you, eh?

 

[105437]

those encoding settings dont do anything for your night image, you want to change your exposure settings; thats whats causing the blur..

Thanks @nayr... so I would assume 1/60 should be better than 1/30 for reducing blur... right?

 

[nayr]

yes the higher the shutter speed the better it does w/motion.. but inversely its a darker image that results in more gain/noise.

other exposure settings such as 3DNR, WDR, and others will add blur aswell.. usually at night you run WDR off, and 3DNR @ ~33% with an exposure around 1/30-1/60 depending on light avilable..

 

[105437]

yes the higher the shutter speed the better it does w/motion.. but inversely its a darker image that results in more gain/noise.

other exposure settings such as 3DNR, WDR, and others will add blur aswell.. usually at night you run WDR off, and 3DNR @ ~33% with an exposure around 1/30-1/60 depending on light avilable..

I do have WDR off and DNR at 100% so maybe I'll bump it down to 33%. Here's what my initial capture looks like.

 

[nayr]

yeah thats totally noise reduction blur.. and you definitely will see it with it @ 100%, back it off..

 

[105437]

Set DNR to 33% instead of 100%... big difference! Thanks

 

[klasipca]

Well I guess you can at least now tell it's a male walking, but you really need more light in there or better cam

 

[105437]

Yeah, that's only light from the IR.


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