AXIS Design Tool is used for determining camera coverage and creating a bill of materials. This tool helps system designers and installers to accurately plan camera placements, ensuring optimal coverage of the surveillance area, and to generate a comprehensive list of required components, facilitating project planning and budgeting.

The Group of Video (GOV) length setting affects both the bandwidth and storage requirements of video streams. A longer GOV length, which specifies the interval between keyframes in a video stream, reduces the frequency of keyframes, thus lowering the bandwidth consumption. However, it can also increase the storage time on an SD card because fewer keyframes are stored over a given period, making the video stream more compression-efficient.

Focusing a camera with an auto iris is more accurate when set during lowlight conditions. In low light, the iris opens wider, resulting in a shorter depth of field. This forces the focus to be more precise within that narrower range, ensuring that the focus is set correctly. When lighting conditions improve and the iris closes down, the depth of field increases, maintaining a broader range of focus.

Image flickering on an AXIS P1344 can often be attributed to the camera's exposure settings. Flickering is usually caused by lighting conditions that fluctuate at a frequency different from the camera's current exposure settings, leading to the perception of flicker. Adjusting the exposure settings can synchronize the camera with the lighting conditions, thus reducing or eliminating the flickering issue. This can be done by accessing the camera's web interface and navigating to the image settings to adjust the exposure mode or exposure value. According to Axis Communications' product documentation, fine-tuning the exposure settings is a recommended step to mitigate flickering.