Forensic Workflow

Reading time: < 1 minOur friend David Spreadborough, better known as Spreadys, has written a bunch of articles on different DVRs he tried at IFSEC 2014. The articles are packed with a lot of very useful technical insights, which system producers should take as a checklist to improve their products. The good thing for us is that (as Spreadys […]

Reading time: 8 minAmped Software is a pretty young company, but we have had the opportunity to work on almost 400 cases. We are mostly focused on software development, but from time to time, we are asked to work as expert witnesses for some major cases or we are asked by our customers to help them by evaluating (more or […]

Reading time: 2 minDespite all the hype over digital technologies, anyone who works in forensics and video surveillance knows very well that analog video is still alive. It’s dying, of course, but sometimes you will still have to digitize old VHS for two reasons: Of course, it does not happen often (at least to me) to work in […]

Reading time: 7 minI find myself analyzing new surveillance videos almost every day. In most of the cases I can either solve the problem (of a license plate for instance) very quickly or understand (even more quickly) that there is no information to recover in the video. In special cases, where something very specific and strange happened; or the […]

Reading time: 4 minOne of the biggest problems during investigations on CCTV footage is the fact that most of the systems records in some proprietary format. Although usually encoding algorithms employs the standard mpeg-like algorithms, you won’t be able to view them on common media players. Some are providing a DirectShow or VideoForWindows codec. But most of them […]