Filenames with Times
I am developing a project for customer service quality control. I need video that an app can jump to any point, for managers to evaluate a customer greeting. ie Exactly 2:15 pm. We want to send these clippings to Trint/AI for closed captioning results.
In the past we setup SS to record every hour at the top of the hour. SS time stamps the file names with the hour number it was recorded. It starts the videos at exactly the top of the hour. This is great, I can jump to 15 minutes into the video and know I'm looking at 15 minutes after the hour. But, the files turn out 350MB+, and are too large to transfer and submit to AI.
I've tried changing to recording every 15 minutes or every 10 minutes. The file sizes are smaller. But the recordings start at random times? I expected the file names and videos to start at the top of the increment. ie. "MyVideo 2025-06-27 14:15:00 My Camera.m4v", but instead it wants to record "MyVideo 2025-06-27 14:16:12 My Camera.m4v"?
Is there a way to synch the desired recording time from the top of the increment? Does this make any sense?
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With the "every X minutes" option, the first file is started whenever the camera is armed, with the next file being started X minutes later and so on. There is no current way to force a recording at exact minute increments during the hour. This could be achieved using an AppleScript perhaps - let me know if you want more information about how to do this.
Otherwise, you could instead tweak the camera encoding so that you get hourly files that are small enough to manage. Log on to the web interface of the camera in question and locate the video encoding options. Try a frame rate of 15fps, VBR with medium quality, and H.265 encoding if available. You may also consider reducing the camera's resolution - see what your AI service recommends for the optimum resolution in which to submit clips, as this could be less than the camera's maximum resolution.
