best practice for detailed screenshots..??

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Young grasshopper
Aug 8, 2017
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Hello and thanks,

Hope fully not a dumb question but would like some feedback.

Current setup:
Blue Iris w/ Dedicated computer
HDW 5231z - 2 MP
HDW (6 mp version .. dont recall model #)

2 MP is at front door
6 MP is above garage looking back towards front yard

I have these on direct 2 disk recording 24/7..

My question is.. say there was an incident that I needed to review..
What is the best way to get a snapshot picture of the video and would it be able to be blown up like a camera picture..( I have a 10MP camera that I can view a picture on my computer but literally zoom in and see the finest of details like for example a button on a shirt..)

Will I be able to get that type of zoom from the video feed?

Hope that makes sense
 
If you need a snapshot from a clip, you can pause the playback and right click the video and choose Snapshot. It will then ask you where to save the jpeg.

You can use the mouse wheel to zoom in and out on the live video or while playing a recording. It probably won't match the level of detail you get from a 10MP handheld camera since security cameras often have fewer pixels, stretched over a wider field of view, and in many cases using an inferior lens to what you've got in a handheld camera.

If you want great detail captures, you need to plan for it. You can't zoom in after the fact and get more detail than was originally captured.

For example, this is a 2MP camera with a very wide angle lens, about 2.8mm delivering about 90 degrees horizontal field of view. It is great for an overview. It sees my entire porch and driveway and most of my front yard. But if someone walks up onto my porch to steal a package, it is going to suck, because most of the pixels are focused elsewhere.

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Now below is an older 4MP camera with a 6mm lens that is also mounted closer. It is much better for detail capture, though it can't see nearly as much area. That is the tradeoff.

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It would be even better if that was a 12mm lens (half the field of view again), but that wasn't cost-effective at the time I got the camera so I had to go with 6mm.
 
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