Amped Replay Tutorials: How do I do this?

Reading time: 4 minDear friends, welcome to this week’s “How do I do this?” pill! Cropping a video or image is one of the basic things you need to do quite often. In the next few lines, we’ll show you how to do it. Plus we’ll see why the benefits of cropping a video or image do not […]

Reading time: 3 minDear friends, welcome to this summer edition of the “How do I do this?” blog series! Today we’re looking at how you can rotate a video or image. It’s an operation that is apparently trivial but may hide some pitfalls, keep reading!

Reading time: 4 minWelcome to this week’s post of the “How do I do this?” series! Today we’re dealing with a rather sneaky and common issue in video forensics: fixing the aspect ratio of videos. Also, we’re dealing with the issue of avoiding objects being stretched. It’s a problem hardly encountered in most digital videos nowadays. But in […]

Reading time: 3 minDear Amped fellows, welcome to this week’s post of the “How do I do this?” series! Today we’ll show you how Amped Replay can deal with a not so common yet very annoying artifact: stretched videos due to field-based recording. If the last words mean nothing to you, don’t miss this opportunity to learn something […]

Reading time: 4 minWelcome, dear friends, to one more post of the “How do I do this?” series! Today we’ll be dealing with a very common and annoying issue, that is, how to correct interlaced videos. It manifests with a “jagged edges” phenomenon that makes things much harder to see. No worries, though: Amped Replay is here to […]

Reading time: 3 minDear friends, welcome to the weekly appointment with the “How do I do this?” series! Playing a video frame by frame is an essential yet invaluable feature for video forensics. And when you spot something interesting, you’ll want to save that position and possibly add comments to relevant stills. We’ll see how this can be […]

Reading time: 3 minDear friends, welcome to this week’s “How do I do this?” post! Today we’ll show you how to adjust the playback speed (playback framerate) of your video. Also, you’ll learn how to use this feature to export a slowed-down or accelerated version of the video. Keep reading! Spoiler of the day: within Amped Replay, you […]

Reading time: 5 minDear friends, here we are with a new post of the “How do I do this” series! Have you ever found yourself dealing with a 1-hour long video where the only thing of interest happens for 5 seconds? As long as the file is sitting on a local drive, that’s usually not an issue. But […]

Reading time: 5 minDear friends, welcome! Today we’re dealing with a widespread and important issue: viewing the timestamps of a surveillance recording. Indeed, as much as “what” happened is important, “when” it happened is also crucial most of the time. Keep reading to find out how Amped Replay lets you see and add timestamps to videos in two […]

Reading time: 5 minWelcome, dear friends, to the weekly “How do I do this” appointment! As we discovered in the previous posts, most surveillance footage is normally available in proprietary formats standard players won’t play. We’ve also seen that Amped Replay lets you play many of such formats. How though can you convert unplayable CCTV videos, while maintaining […]

Reading time: 4 minDear friends, welcome to this week’s “How do I do this?” pill to ease your video pain! As we said in the previous post, CCTV surveillance video files often come in rather odd extensions. So odd that you’ll hardly be able to tell apart video files from different stuff. But luckily, Amped Replay will identify […]

Reading time: 3 minDear friends, welcome back! As promised in the introductory post to this series, today we’ll face one of the most basic and common issues found by investigators in their daily job: how to play unplayable CCTV videos effectively. It seems the easiest thing, but it turns out to be often hard with standard players, so […]