Apparently, you don't understand digital technology. The recording MUST be saved in order to "go back" to the few seconds leading up to the "recorded" incident. If the camera has 8 mb of memory, that's enough "saved" footage to cover an hour or more, and those files exist until such time as they are overwritten...meaning the memory gets filled up, and the OLDEST file is written over. If the company has it set up so that only 20 seconds of footage are reported, they are likely 10 second files, with 2 files protected so they aren't overwritten until they are uploaded. The non-incident files still exist on the camera, as long as the camera hasn't been running long enough to overwrite them. In other words, if the upload happened quickly enough following an incident, the company could go back and grab additional files from immediately before and after the event that was triggered.
If you think it ONLY records a 20 second loop, you're sorely mistaken.
It's official...no inward facing drive cam starting tomorrow
Discussion in 'Swift' started by 3523, Mar 21, 2017.
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Another big difference is Driver facing cameras have the video constantly monitored through a computer algorithm specifically designed to flag possible driver wrong doings which can actually be used to fire them or even land them in jail. All via some desk jocky or LEO "Monday morning Quarterbacking" a drivers split-second life or death decision. That's not the same scrutiny a Walmart associate faces while stocking toilet paper under a benign camera 30 feet away, possibly pointed in his general direction.mathematrucker, Gearjammin' Penguin, Chewey2 and 3 others Thank this. -
8MB will save a few minutes, but not an hour. At least not at a quality that would really show anything useful.
The Swift cameras have 8GB of storage, and we were told this a long time ago by Scott Barker.
The camera I had could save around 10 hours of video with a 64GB card, but half was reserved for 'saved files' in a separate folder. That was at 1080P resolution.
So if it takes 32GB to store 10 hours worth of video, how much do you think 8MB would save?
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To throw this in here. My GoPro records 5 min files in a 20 min loop. Can be set to record 1 min files in a 4 min loop. So there are constantly 3 files saved and fourth recording. As the fourth one hits the last second, the first file is deleted and a new recording starts.
What I'm trying to point out is that my own personal camera doesn't fill up the memory card and then delete the first file. It only records a set time and that's it. Now I'm not sure if swift has theirs set up to record the whole cards but.. it's possible they don't.
As far as storage, my 128gb card will hold 8hrs of 1080p video with audio. 8gb will hold quite a bit if that is how they record it. -
In that time several videos were turned in, I think around 8 or 9.
I was not called out for any one of them. They were all resolved without contacting me by my DM.
Some big potholes while in a yard and I wasn't belted in. A few hard braking events when a light went red and I decided to stop instead of going through - as I was doing the speed limit I might add.
No one could have made a case against my driving habits with what was shown on those videos.
But I could imagine where some drivers could be caught off guard at too many critical times to show that their attention was not where it should have been at the moment. -
In that time several videos were turned in, I think around 8 or 9.
I was not called out for any one of them. They were all resolved without contacting me by my DM.
Some big potholes while in a yard and I wasn't belted in. A few hard braking events when a light went red and I decided to stop instead of going through - as I was doing the speed limit I might add.
No one could have made a case against my driving habits with what was shown on those videos.
But I could imagine where some drivers could be caught off guard at too many critical times to show that their attention was not where it should have been at the moment. -
That is a good thing if you need to grab a plate number from a single frame.Friday Thanks this. -
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