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I'm just going to put this out there. I've searched but I'm to new to this stuff to even know the right terminology. So this is kind of just a question to see if this feature exists anywhere or in ZM.

Can you have your recorded video increase it's frame rate when in detects motion? So you cruise along at 1 FPS until something interesting starts happening and then bump it up either at the camera or in the recorded video. Or do you have it just record nothing at all when no motion is detected?

I suppose a single video file probably has a fixed frame rate? Would you have to leave it recording at the higher setting and hope the video compression compensates when you only fed it 1 FPS?

Sorry if none of that makes sense, just trying to get a handle on how to get the best use of available disk space.

I have mine set to not record anything when no motion is detected; it also checks for motion at 10fps. When motion is detected it records at 30fps. All this and a ton more are covered in detail in the wiki. I think you'll find ZM does a lot.

I think that would be sufficient for what I want to do. Enough to start out with ZM as the default plan. Not that I expect to find anything else with better functionality. Certainly not anything that comes with the cameras. Once it comes to digging in and actually getting it working I'm sure I'll find more info (and have more questions).

One good judge of a user community is the mildness of the RTFM responses. Thanks! (Seriously)