Author Archives: David Spreadborough

Reading time: 13 minFrom legacy format compatibility to enhanced timing control, this Amped FIVE update strengthens your forensic video workflows. Get up to speed on HAR/LWX support, improved playback and timestamp logic, smarter Convert DVR defaults, and practical filter upgrades for faster video evidence processing.

Reading time: 12 minThe latest Amped FIVE update delivers new improvements to accelerate your workflow. The new big addition of Filter Presets allows you to reduce manual steps. We’ve also expanded proprietary format decoding and introduced Project Snapshots. Moreover, you’ll find updates to Convert DVR, Annotate, Compression Analysis, Advanced File Info and much more!

Reading time: 10 minThe capabilities in Amped FIVE for the correction of lens distortion have recently increased with the new Camera Calibration filters. Supporting filters such as Undistort and Correct Fisheye, Camera Calibration allows for finer control and flexibility, especially with portable cameras or difficult scenes. Read more in this latest “How-To” blog post.

Reading time: 17 minThis update to Amped FIVE includes many new additions and increases in proprietary format decoding. New Writing Queue utility, Camera calibration filters, RIFF Viewer, Video Writer Timing Control and much more.

Reading time: 10 minIn this “How To” blog post, we examine the new Coding Tree Units (CTU) filter released in the latest revision of Amped FIVE. Evaluating CTUs, used in the encoding of H265/HEVC Video, is often a necessary process in Forensic Video Analysis.

Reading time: 14 minThis update to Amped FIVE includes many new additions and increases in proprietary format decoding. A new filter for the analysis of HEVC/H265 video, new functionality to Video Loader, Video Writer, and Timestamp adjustment, along with many improvements to Link filters, Multiview, and Annotate.

Reading time: 11 minThe final post in our File Formats and Conversion blog series reviews the last part of the coding/decoding process. You will learn how decisions made during video decoding can affect data reliability and image representation.

Reading time: 13 minThe latest update to Amped FIVE enhances investigative workflows with improved bookmark management, introduces Variable Frame Rate Writing, upgrades the CCTV data timestamp feature, and expands Advanced File Info capabilities.

Reading time: 15 minThis latest post on video conversion explores the critical issue of lossless data extraction from proprietary formats.

Reading time: 30 minVideo codecs and formats form the bulk of our source material, from both proprietary and standard files.Our Video Formats and Conversion blog series continues with a full breakdown of all the common types encountered in forensic video analysis.

Reading time: 12 minThe Video Formats and Conversion blog series continues with an in-depth look into the history, challenges, and solutions of proprietary data. Often originating from video surveillance systems, this volatile source of evidence must be handled correctly to avoid errors in analysis or presentation.

Reading time: 8 minIn this first post from our new Video Formats and Conversion blog series, we cover some of the terminologies we will be using throughout. Looking ahead, we run through the upcoming posts to give you an overview of what to expect over the next few months.