Video Forensics
Salient Stills 
VF Pro | Easier, Smarter, Faster, Better
Here's a new idea. Video forensics that works the way you work. Efficiently, intelligently. Connecting you to the images and movies that capture the action with an ease no other video forensics solution can muster. You'll get through videos more quickly, bypassing all the multitude of steps that up until now have dogged anybody who had video to digitize, demultiplex and enhance. Cutting to the chase, as it were, to give law enforcement a complete video forensics tool that moves the way your brain thinks - toward solutions, not roadblocks.
VFPro 3.0 was created to provide law enforcement a faster, more intuitive, remarkably easy video forensics tool that's as agile as you need it to be, as complete as you want it to be.
Why VFPro 3.0 is changing the playing field
All the tools you need are suddenly all right there for you to use. You'll never have to think about piecing together various tools from various places, No more separate digitizing tool - or that freeware screen capture tool for proprietary video. You won't have to export data to a stand-alone demultiplexing tool and then re-import it into another app to perform yet another task. Or need to stop everything to launch image and movie enhancement tools like Photoshop or Premiere.
Everything you need to get the job done well – and fast – VFPro 3.0 does for you, and then some. So, yes, it's easier.
What's in it for you
- New image processing filters for movies and stills makes for outstanding, unsurpassed quality output.
- An advanced editing tool that means you can now trim, crop, and combine video clips. Even add still images to the movies.
- New camera stabilization makes it easier for you to view and present video evidence as well.
- VFPro 3.0 creates and stores audit trails for you, to track the work you've done, compare and contrast, and access at any time.
- New user interactions allow for quick review and inspection of details in movies and stills through zooming and dragging.
- VFPro 3.0 brings an object tracking mechanism to the table, enabling users to select an object in an image and highlight its movements through a movie.
- And incorporates sound into the mix should you want it
It all comes down to this
Of course, VFPro 3.0 still manages to bring in all the other qualities Video FOCUS has always brought to video forensics. The best demultiplexing system around. A time saving interface. And an array of capabilities built to take the frustration out of the creation of high quality, Court-worthy movies and still images.
Analog Video Capture
With VFPro 3.0 multiple hours of video can be stored for review, image creation, sharing and archiving. Once digitized, your source videotape can also be stored, safe from further degradation and harm. VFPro fully supports a wide range of award winning, professional quality Blackmagic video input cards. For users of analog video, these cards offer the highest quality, full frame rate uncompressed digital video capture available. Through SDI, S-Video, DV, composite or component inputs — PAL and NTSC.
Digital Video Import & Transcoding
Users can import and easily work with a wide range of file types with VFPro 3.0 including formats like .AVI .MOV .WMF and .ASF, streaming video formats and cell phone movies such as 3G Mobile among many others.
Digital Video Screen Capture
For greater ease of use, through seamless integration into the application, users can easily capture video data directly from proprietary DVR movies as they play on screen. The movie is captured and stored in an uncompressed, easy to work with, format. Problems that plague other screen capture programs – such as dealing with proprietary movies that result in "black screen", players that write meta-data into a separate screen buffers, and renegade DVR players that take over the entire screen – are solved. All timing information is faithfully recorded so that the resulting movie is an accurate representation of the original.
Quick Scan & Search
An innovative video user interface - utilizing a traditional media player and a quick-scan panel showing all the frames of video - allows you to quickly review and mark areas of interest in a long video sequence, helping you find the images you need. Users can quickly inspect details areas of images and movies by zooming and dragging.
Demultiplexing
There is no better solution for demultiplexing in the market today. Our system was designed from the user perspective, with a deep understanding of the limitations other systems faced. Law Enforcement struggled with multiplexed video – noisy, jumpy, panning cameras etc. VFPro was developed using sophisticated image processing algorithms served up in a smart user interface to enable it to separate an unlimited number of cameras from multiplexed video in a snap. The system requires no specialized hardware or input from the user – and works when (and where, as a mobile unit) you need it – and fast.
Improved Image Filtering for Stills
New filters allow VFPro 3.0 to create clearer imagery, with less noise and fewer artifacts. So image problems like those captured from poorly exposed images or those with artifacts are cleared up instantly.
Rather than overburden the user with a multitude of filters that may have very little effect on the quality of their resulting image, we worked with law enforcement to choose the most effective, widely used, and straightforward set of filters for their needs.
Super-Resolution, De-Interlacing, Field Swap, Crop, Zoom, Speed Change, Sharpen, Blur, Histogram Equalization, Levels Adjustment, Color and BW Conversion.
The super-resolution filter provides results that are significantly clearer and more complete than the majority of systems available, which use simple frame averaging techniques.
Video Filtering
Movies too dark or shaky? Need to highlight a suspect? VFPro 3.0 enables users to take advantage of the same high quality image filters over an entire movie, helping improve security and surveillance video.
Shaky video – say, from a moving vehicle or with a hand held camera – can be stablized for better and easier analysis and presentation. Adjust the contrast, brightness, levels, sharpness, color ofmovies or track an object to blur them out or highlight them for presentation.
Editing
Users now have a very simple and very fast set of editing tools, to trim, crop, and combine video clips. A tool to seamlessly combine stills and video for a high level presentation. The editing system is designed with a simple cut and paste model, which provides results that can be created rapidly and reviewed instantly. So, unlike with many time-line based editing systems that require a rendering process, you won't have substantial delays in seeing the results after changing processing parameters - a real problem, as delays become more significant as the length of video to be processed increases.
Digital Video Conversion and Export
VFPro 3.0 exports digital movie files to a variety of industry standard formats and compression types. Users can create .MOV and .AVI files with movie data stored in a wide variety of codec types including uncompressed, DV, MPEG and MJPEG and many others. Export allows for the correction of square/non-square pixels and frame rate change on export. Users can trim, crop, edit, or change speed, export digital video clips for use in other applications, share them with others, or archive them to disk or a media storage system with ease.
Still Image Export
VFPro 3.0 exports still images to industry standard file types for printing, archiving, sharing or further processing. These types include .JPG, .BMP and .TIFF. Original unenhanced raw video images can also be exported.
Preservation of Original Evidence and Audit Trail
In VFPro 3.0, no data is ever over-written. Whenever a process is run on a video or still, another copy is made, and it's easy to select all related video derived from an original. The program always maintains a complete record of operations performed on any video or image data. This audit trail is available to the user whenever you need it.
Printing
Ease of use again in play, VFPro provides a complete, end-to-end solution, enabling users to print images directly from the system or export them out.