1. A system for selective video recording, comprising: a video camera that provides output video; a video separator that separates the output video into object video including one or more objects and background video against which the one or more objects appear; a video analysis module that respectively identifies each of the one or more objects as a predetermined type of object by tracking each of the one or more objects over two or more video frames; and a storage control module that independently stores the object video and background video, an object from the one or more objects being associated with an image header having an indication that the object is one of several predetermined types of objects, the image header having coordinate data associated with a position of the object in relation to the background video, the background video being associated with an image header having an indication that the background video is a background video, wherein each of the one or more objects is recorded at a respective frame rate corresponding to the predetermined type of object identified by the video analysis module.