Define auto-exposure areas of interest

Last modified: Wednesday September 28, 2022.

For situations where, due to the varying ambient lighting conditions across an Avigilon Ava cameras field-of-view, the auto-exposure cannot correctly calculate an overall exposure for the view, you can define areas of interest for the auto-exposure to use.

Task — Define exposure area

  1. Choose Tools Open a tool > Devices Devices.
  2. Select the Avigilon Ava camera to add the auto-exposure area of interest.
  3. From the Settings pane, click Edit settings.
  4. Click Video adjustments.
  5. From Exposure area, click Show.
  6. Create rectangular masks for the zones to be excluded from the exposure settings.
    After a few seconds, the auto-exposure for the camera is recalculated, and the camera view updated to show the new settings in use.
  7. Click Done.