Author Archives: David Spreadborough

Reading time: 17 minAnother huge update to Amped FIVE brings the decoding of many more CCTV Formats, Nested Folder Support, Advanced Frame Analysis and Timing Macros.

Reading time: 4 minThe latest update to Amped DVRConv and Amped Engine brings exciting news for the future of proprietary video extraction and conversion. Welcome to the latest update post for Amped DVRConv and Amped Engine. For those new to our software suite, Amped Engine is the power unit behind all of our forensic video applications. Without it, […]

Reading time: 10 minHello dear friends and welcome to the very last article in our “Learn and Solve It with Amped FIVE” series. We hope you enjoyed the variety of content in this series and that you have learned something new. In this final article, we will discuss how to correct the aspect ratio of CCTV footage.

Reading time: 9 minHey there everyone, thanks for checking out what’s new in this latest revision of Amped FIVE. There is a theme with this release. As you go through the improvements, changes, and additions, you may sense a concentration on file integrity and hashing. There is an important reason for this. Data integrity is vital when dealing […]

Reading time: 10 minWe have made it! After several months of posts, we have come to the series summary on CCTV Acquisition. Thank you for joining us on this journey.  It’s now time to look back and remind ourselves of some of the key points, and understand how incorrect acquisition may affect the future tasks required. 

Reading time: 7 minWelcome back to the blog series on CCTV Acquisition where, in this article, we cover viewing CCTV after acquisition. At initial thought, you may believe this to be a quick subject. However, as we dive deeper you will see that there are several considerations at different stages. Read on to learn more!

Reading time: 13 minThe CCTV Acquisition blog series continues here with the creation of master and working copies after CCTV acquisition. Incorrect handling and exhibit referencing can cause huge delays to the Criminal Justice System. These errors may even lead to miscarriages of justice, so it is vital that all acquisition, movement, processing and changes are correctly documented and […]

Reading time: 10 minThe CCTV Acquisition series continues here with another installment. This post features an acquisition from a cloud-based service provider. In previous posts, we have always started with a device that contains the data required to be preserved as evidence. With full cloud-based storage, the data is on a remote server, owned and managed by a […]

Reading time: 8 minWelcome back to our series on CCTV Acquisition where in this post we will be looking at remote acquisition using a mobile device. We briefly looked at this in a previous post where we examined the challenges of CCTV and video evidence that are submitted to the police by the public. 

Reading time: 14 minThe CCTV Acquisition series continues this week with open-box acquisition using the internal Hard Disk Drive (HDD). Yes, it’s time to get the screwdrivers out! It’s taken us several months to get to this point, with a slow progression starting with the basics and understanding the crazy world of CCTV systems. In the last post, […]

Reading time: 6 minThis latest post within the CCTV Acquisition series brings us to CCTV Device Removal and Replacement. We will look at the considerations for both and highlight some possible issues. In the last post, we dived into networking and examined how to acquire video evidence via network access. Networking is often conducted within the Forensic Video […]

Reading time: 12 minWelcome back to our continuing blog series on CCTV acquisition. In this post, we will concentrate on closed-box CCTV acquisition using network access. We have covered many aspects so far. In the last post, we learned that a closed-box acquisition does not require a screwdriver, in that we won’t be opening up any devices! We […]