How to Amped FIVE

Reading time: 4 minDear friends welcome to a brand new tip! Today we’re sharing a very simple yet handy Amped FIVE tip, which can help you get better results and present your work at its best. We’ll see how to compare the result at two or more different points within the same chain. Keep reading!

Reading time: 5 minDear friends welcome to this week’s tip! Today we’re showing a simple yet very handy feature of Amped FIVE: the Histogram tool. We’ll briefly explain what the image histogram is and how using the Histogram tool for forensic image enhancement can help you work your way to a successful result! So keep reading!

Reading time: 7 minDear loyal summer readers welcome to this week’s tip! As investigators, one of the questions we should always ask ourselves is: “Am I using the best possible evidence?”. This is vital to ensure that we can interpret the native data correctly and have the best chance to obtain visual information after any restoration and/or enhancement process. […]

Reading time: 3 minHello, Tip Tuesday friends! Here in Italy, it keeps getting warmer every day. If the trend doesn’t change, soon our thermometer will saturate! Never heard of this term? It’s quite an important one in forensic video saturation detection and plays a crucial role in forensic video processing! Keep reading to find out its meaning and […]

Reading time: 4 minHi, dear readers! Here we are, ready for a new tip. Today we’re concluding our mini-series about Amped FIVE‘s Frame Averaging, Temporal and Motion Smoothing. They’re all ways to reduce the noise in videos by integrating the information from multiple frames. However, they’re quite different in what they do. Keep reading to find out more!

Reading time: 4 minDear Tip Tuesday readers, welcome! Today we’re beginning a mini-series covering some of Amped FIVE‘s filters that are very useful when dealing with a noisy video (which, alas, happens so often): Frame Averaging, Temporal Smoothing and Motion Smoothing. We’ll see the advantages of each filter and when you should choose one over the other. Today […]

Reading time: 6 minDear friends welcome to this week’s tip! Today we take inspiration from a question that we receive from time to time from our users. It basically goes like this: “How come consumer video players like VLC sometimes appear to play the video better than Amped FIVE or Amped Replay?”. If you’re curious about the answer… […]

Reading time: 4 minWelcome, dear friends! This week’s tip concludes the mini-series dedicated to Amped FIVE‘s Video Input filter. We’ll show how easy it is to achieve live video processing with Amped FIVE. This will allow for real-time processing of live video feeds on your computer’s screen just milliseconds after capture. Keep reading to find out more!

Reading time: 4 minDear friends, welcome to this week’s tip! Today we continue the mini-series about Amped FIVE‘s Video Input filter. We’ll see that it can be your greatest ally when you’re dealing with reverse projection. That is, when you go to the crime scene to place a height chart or some other reference element. In these cases, […]

Reading time: 8 minThis follows very nicely from my previous post, “Where Is the Rest of the Video?“, where we had to analyze video metadata in order to answer questions about missing footage. In the case here, we have some discrepancies with the frame rate. Let us take a closer look.

Reading time: 6 minDear Tip Tuesday maniacs welcome to a brand new tip! Actually, we’re beginning a mini-series of tips, dedicated to an often overlooked feature of Amped FIVE, the Video Input filter. It lets you get a live video stream from an input device and process it “on the fly” with Amped FIVE filters, or record it […]

Reading time: 6 minVideo investigators often receive files with little or no information surrounding the source, acquisition or handling. The files are often created by people with little knowledge of the legal requirements of data type and continuity. These issues, and quite a few others, all impact the initial investigation as discrepancies can cause major problems further along […]