Overlays - Axis 01152-001 User Manual

AXIS M30 Series
Setup
About view area
A view area is a cropped part of the full view. You can stream and store the view area instead of the full view to minimize bandwidth
and storage needs. If you enable PTZ for the view area, you can pan, tilt and zoom within the it. By using a view area you can
remove parts of the full view, for example sky.
When you set up a view area, we recommend you to set the video stream resolution to the same size as or smaller than the view area
size. If you set the video stream resolution larger than the view area size it implies digitally scaled up video after sensor capture,
which requires more bandwidth without adding image information.
How to handle scenes with strong backlight
Use WDR to make both dark and bright areas of the image visible.
1. Go to Settings > Image.
2. Turn on WDR under Wide dynamic range.
Image without WDR.
Image with WDR.
Note
If you use WDR, you may experience some WDR artifacts in the image.
Find out more about WDR and how to use it at axis.com/web-articles/wdr

Overlays

About overlays
Overlays are superimposed over the video stream. They are used to provide extra information during recordings, such as a timestamp,
or during product installation and configuration.
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