Ocean Systems company news & updates, as well as product tips & tutorials.
This week we released the dTective® Forensic Video Analysis Suite version 8.1, which brings some amazing performance improvements to our dVeloper™ frame-averaging effect. Improvements so significant, it’s never been quicker or easier to interrogate High Resolution video (e.g. UHD, 4K, 8K and above) with frame-averaging! Many times crucial details are hidden in video due to […]
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Some people think in terms of black & white, with very little gray area. It can be challenging for some of those folks to understand that when it comes to processing video evidence, it’s rarely black or white and we don’t often have time to navigate the gray area, early in an investigation. Time is […]
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Earlier today we hosted a free 1hr webinar on Digital Evidence Management, and What’s New in Version 3.5 of QuickDME™. For those unable to attend, below is the webinar recording. Give us a call at (301) 476-8015 to talk about your bottenecks with Digital Evidence collection, clarification & management to find out how QuickDME™ can […]
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This week we officially released QuickDME™ version 3.5, which introduced several new features designed to save you & your team time. One of the user requested features added to v3.5 was the ability to add basic text notes to a Case or Download folder. Of course, we took it a few steps further. 🙂 Case […]
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dTective® 8.0 made a big splash at the LEVA conference last week and was officially released on Monday. dTective® 8.0 includes our updated SpotLight/Redact effect and our new Analyze (BETA) effect. SpotLight/Redact SpotLight/Redact is an effect that allows you to highlight and/or obscure up to four (4) separate areas within your video clip via one […]
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The recent release of Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 (v20) introduced several new Hot Keys that conflict with ClearID®’s default Base Set (e.g. F6, F7, F8, etc). There are of course multiple ways to handle this conflict, as briefly discussed in this video (1 min. 24 secs.). Today we published another maintenance release of ClearID v3 […]
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Last week we were honored to participate in FLETC’s 2nd Cybercrime and Technical Investigations Conference in Glynco, GA. We got to chat with long-time friends and customers in the Vendor demonstration area, as well as serveral folks brand new to Forensic Multimedia Analysis. On Friday, I gave a presentation – “Video Evidence: There’s More Than […]
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Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) has been used by Digital & Multimedia Evidence (DME) analysts since prior to the very first certifications in any of the related DME disciplines (e.g. computer forensics, mobile forensics, video forensics, audio forensics, image analysis). FOSS has transformed the landscape of each of those disciplines in the process. Below […]
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With the release of QuickDME™ version 3.2 Administrators can quickly and easily archive & restore case assets via Admin Configurator, providing even more storage flexibility. To start using the new feature, Admins simply need to setup their Archive Storage location via the Database Setup Utility (shown below). This only needs to be done once, as […]
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QuickDME™ version 3.1 (released March 29, 2018) introduces many new features, including one we call “Linkable Locations”. This feature allows the system administrator to “Link” to other network storage locations, then “index” the evidence from those locations without having to move all of the data in order to manage it with QuickDME™. Linkable Locations make […]
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Is your digital evidence workstation slowing you down? Chances are that if you do a considerable amount of transcoding/converting multimedia and it’s more than 3 years old, it is. When it comes to Digital Multimedia Evidence (DME) processing, time is of the essence…in more ways than one. First, DME is unlike any other type of […]
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Having video evidence from multiple cameras for an investigation becomes more common as each day passes. With multiple camera views and/or videos from different sources, aligning those videos into a multi-track timeline can be the most thorough and powerful way to interrogate and digest the material, both from an investigative standpoint as well as from […]
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