Video Enhancement

SALIENT STILLS VFPro 3.0

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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 and Audio 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.

VFSource

VFSource — the technology custom-engineered for faster, more agile video ingestion, screen capture and output for a major law enforcement agency — is now available to you. Built as a stand alone screen capture, import and conversion application whose output can work with any video analysis systems, VFSource streamlines your analysis process.

Use it as a prep station, as a stand alone, or as a mobile unit
Like VideoFocus Pro, there's no easier, more intuitive solution of its kind. And, like VFPro, it does what it what it does with extraordinary image quality and speed – and then it does more.

So, what makes it so good?

Better Screen Capture and Import Application
VFSource goes screen capture one better by allowing captures from those renegade DVR players that take over the whole screen and others that result in pure black movies when captured with other tools. And it allows the user to continue to work while it captures the video – even if the original digital source movie is moved around the screen. VFSource ingests your video – digitizing analog video, screen captures video and audio from proprietary digital files and imports non-proprietary digital files. Does your screen capture tool work like that?

Digital Video File Editing and Export
Captured movies can be trimmed, cropped and edited to the most important information. Then users can convert video to a usable form (codec and file type) appropriate for either analysis or sharing.

Grab a frame, process and export
While in the field, after you capture a source movie, you can easily pull stills, do simple processing on them and save them out.

Look and Feel — as intuitive and easy to understand as the VFPro it was built to mirror.

CAPTURE

Digital Video and Audio Screen Capture
With VFSource, proprietary file types, and renegade players are no longer a problem:

• Captures video and audio from proprietary digital movie players
• Allows you to highlight an area of an active movie player window for capture or use pre-defined crop areas
• Enables you to display all frames in the final movie at the correct moment in time when they occurred in the original movie

Problems that plague other screen capture programs — such as dealing with proprietary movies that result in "black screen" captures when used in other programs, and renegade DVR players that take over the entire screen — are solved with VFSource.

Analog Video Capture
VFSource captures high quality, uncompressed digital video directly from analog video sources via an SDI video card. VFSource is also compatible with 1394 Firewire port devices. Capture NTSC and PAL video at their respective frame rates without dropping a frame.

Digital Video Import
Allows you to import a wide variety of files that play in standard players such as Quicktime, Windows Media Player and RealPlayer. Import and transcode streaming media files to ensure optimal interactivity with individual frames. Import 3G Mobile cell phone files.
(File types VFSource will work with: .3pg, .mp4v, .3g2, .asx, .dv, .m2v, .wmf, .divx, .asf, .mpg, .m1v, .avi, .mp4, .wm, .mov, .vob and many other file types that play in Windows Media Player on your machine.)

Edit Movies
Edits your digital video clips. Lets you easily trim, crop, edit, deinterlace, change speed, change size and share the clips with others or archive them to disk or a media storage system.

Convert and Export Movies
VFSource helps users convert video to a usable form (codec and file type) appropriate for either analysis or sharing. Used as a prep station, it gives organizations a big hand with backlogs of videos — turning the piles of previously unusable video into usable form. (Exports industry standard movie files .mov or .avi with numerous codec options and allows for the correction of square/non-square pixels and frame-rate on movie export.)

Grab and Process Stills
Find an interesting frame in your source movie. Grab it and process - crop, adjust brightness and contrast levels, rescale and export it out in one of many file types. Or just save out a raw copy of the original.

Share
Whether used as a mobile unit, through which users can get video on site by digitizing analog video or by screen capturing or importing digital DVR files, VFSource allows for export to a sharable non-proprietary form that can be handed out to necessary parties and plays on their computers.

Other Features:

• Start and Stop Capture — hot keys are provided to start and stop analog or screen capture, minimize the application etc.
• Quick Scan — an innovative video user interface, this allows you to quickly review and mark areas of interest in a long video sequence, making it easy you find the images you need.
• Automatic Naming — captured files can be saved to a user specified location with a user specified root name helping to move many videos in and out of the system.
• Printing — you can find a frame that is interesting and print it directly out for use.
• Look and Feel — as intuitive and easy to understand as the VFPro it was built to mirror