# How to avoid multiple recordings in a short time
**URL:** https://community.mobotix.com/t/how-to-avoid-multiple-recordings-in-a-short-time/2156
**Category:** Recordings
**Created:** [January 29, 2020, 1:50pm UTC](https://community.mobotix.com/t/how-to-avoid-multiple-recordings-in-a-short-time/2156 "2020-01-29T13:50:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@747driver](https://community.mobotix.com/u/747driver)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2020, 1:50pm UTC](https://community.mobotix.com/t/how-to-avoid-multiple-recordings-in-a-short-time/2156/1 "2020-01-29T13:50:18Z")
M15 with MX-V4.7.2.35-r1 (2019-10-09)
I have setup several Image Analysis Events which are used to start a recording.
Each of these video motion events consist of a number of windows as defined in “Video Motion Definitions”.
The “Event Dead Time” for each event is 30 seconds.
In the “Storage Settings - Start Recording” all these events are selected with a recording time of 90 seconds.
“Retrigger Recording” is set to “(select none)”.
The issue I have is that multiple recordings are generated when something moves in one of the motion detection windows.
In MxManagementCenter 2.2 I can have 9 recordings in 3 seconds!!!
What I was expecting was a 90 seconds recording for the first activation and another one if a motion detection window is triggered after the Event Dead Time of 30 seconds.
Am I doing something wrong??
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### Author:  [@747driver](https://community.mobotix.com/u/747driver)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2020, 9:24am UTC](https://community.mobotix.com/t/how-to-avoid-multiple-recordings-in-a-short-time/2156/2 "2020-01-30T09:24:05Z")
Just fed the birds in the garden and checked the Research in the View selection.
77 recordings while I was in the garden for exactly 60 seconds!!
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### Author:  [@LMCS.amin](https://community.mobotix.com/u/LMCS.amin)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2020, 8:00am UTC](https://community.mobotix.com/t/how-to-avoid-multiple-recordings-in-a-short-time/2156/3 "2020-03-20T08:00:10Z")
If you are referring to the number of events triggered then keep in mind that each of your events are handled individually. A triggered event will not suppress other events from triggering. So in 30 seconds you can trigger all of them once.
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### Author:  [@747driver](https://community.mobotix.com/u/747driver)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2020, 11:16am UTC](https://community.mobotix.com/t/how-to-avoid-multiple-recordings-in-a-short-time/2156/4 "2020-08-17T11:16:52Z")
[THIS](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMAsoRSy6PE) video helped me a lot to understand the issue i had.