One of our most commonly requested services is Video Restoration and Enhancement. Put It On Video is one of a relatively small number of firms using advanced forensic video software developed by Cognitech, Inc. called Video Investigator. Cognitech was founded to provide the cutting edge image processing and analysis technology for applications in law enforcement, forensics and bio-medical fields. In 1993 Cognitech played a major role in the trials of the four men charged with beating trucker Reginald Denny in the Los Angeles rioting following the verdicts in the Rodney King Case. Photographs and videotapes were enhanced and analyzed with Cognitech's unique proprietary methods and used by the prosecution to positively identify and convict the criminals. Cognitech image processing algorithms and techniques have been approved for use in the Court of Law through a variety of important decisions by US and Canada Federal and State Courts. Besides providing the most advanced software and hardware products to law enforcement agencies worldwide, Cognitech operates the state of the art forensic imaging lab, advancing Cognitech software products by working on challenging forensic cases throughout the United States and Canada.

Cognitech's unique technology has been profiled by Wall Street Journal (lead Technology Section article) and Business Week Magazine (Technologies to Watch). Cognitech has received numerous coverage by national networks (FOX, CNN, ABC, NBC, Discovery etc.) and participation in several Discovery, Learning Channel, Unsolved Mysteries Specials, with a most recent principal participation in Discovery Channel Special on forensic analysis of the J.F.K. assassination (solving Grassy Knoll Mystery through use of Cognitech's videogrammetry technology).
 

Our Video Restoration and Enhancement Services include, but are certainly not limited to: Image DeBlurring, Image DeNoising, Image Sharpening, Image Zoom, Image Highlighting, Image Masking, Editing, Demultiplexing, and Image File Conversion.

Our software, Video Investigator, is designed to work with video files and still images alike. There are a variety of methods that can be used in either scenario, which is what makes Video Investigator such a powerful tool. No other software will offer the vast array of filters that Video Investigator offers its users. Listed below are a number of the tools available in this powerful software package:

1. File Conversion-This tool allows you to convert your file in a variety of ways. RGB to YUV, 8-bit to 16-bit, 8-bit to 32 bit, etc.

2. Deblur Filters-These filters allow you to deblur single frame or movie clips. There are 5 deblur filters that work in different ways to deblur your image. The Sharpen and Weiner filters are classic techniques that work very quickly. While Movie Deblur and Total Variation are techniques that Cognitech scientists developed. Movie Deblur, Total Variation and the Weiner Filter all allow different blur kernels to by utilized which allow customization for different types of blurring that may be encountered in processing your images. Motion Deblurring is a new technique developed by Cognitech scientist that utilizes image registration to determine the motion of a video and deblur it based on that motion.

3. Demultiplexing-This allows you to demultiplex a video based on its visual content. This is not based on a so-called quiet zone as in some of our competitor’s products. The quiet zone approach will not work if the scene in the video changes drastically. Our approach looks at the image directly and sorts it to the appropriate movie. This allows the user to demultiplex all of the camera views into separate video clips. It is a universal demultiplexer since it does not read the multiplexer encoding on the videotape.

4. Denoise Filters-These 6 denoising filters allow you to remove noise in single frames or movie clips. The Median and Average Frames technique are based on classic image processing techniques. Movie Denoise, Remove Extrema, Total Variation Denoise, and JPEG Deblocker are all based on techniques developed by Cognitech scientists. Average Frames works well when there is no motion in your video; motion is addressed with our Reconstruction Methods.

5. Detection Filters-The detection filters perform a few different tasks. Frame Difference allows you to view the intensity difference between two frames of a movie. Gradient is a visualization tool that allows you to view the different adjacent pixels. Motion Detection detects motion in a video and outputs a boundary image of that movement. Edge Detection is similar to Motion Detection but it detects edges within the video and outputs it to a boundary image.

6. Editing-The editing filters allow you to cut and concatenate videos. Concatenation allows you to combine two different movies. Translational Crop allows you to use the glyph tools in Video Investigator to cut a movie to focus in on a object of interest.

7. Enhancement-User can perform histogram equalization technique to improve the contrast in the image.

8. Histogram Editor-User can adjust the Red-Green-Blue (RGB) or Hue-Saturation-Intensity values in an image or movie.

9. Segmentation-Allow you to visually analyze the content of a still or video. These techniques were developed by Cognitech scientists and used in the Reginald Denny investigation.

10. Tracking-These two techniques, Tracking and 3D Shape Matching are techniques again developed by Cognitech scientists and used to automatically track motion in a video.

11. Transform-These are filters allow the user to different functions. Mirror Image allows the user to rotate or flip the image or video in different directions. Geometric is used to zoom/reflection, shear (deformation of a rectangle into a parallelogram), rotate and
translate an image or movie. Wavelet is an advanced filter that demonstrates the 2D dyadic wavelet transform for spline wavelets of minimal support on a rectangular domain. Fourier is another advanced transform filter that computes the 2D discrete
Fourier transformation of image.

12. Zoom-This filter allows the user to try 6 different techniques to rescale an image or movie. This allows for a better rescaling effect, as typical methods tend to use a pixel duplication method to rescale an image, which quickly leads to a stair-like effect called pixelation.

13. Velocity-These filters are the centerpieces to Video Investigator and it’s Reconstruction methods. These filters allow the user to estimate the motion in a video clip either automatically or by manual methods. These filters have been developed by Cognitech scientists and are the first step in performing a Reconstruction Technique. Correlation Matching, Line Segment Matching, Motion Segmentation, Phase Matching, Segmentation Shape Matching, and Shape Matching are all automatic registration methods and Manual Matching is a manual method that uses the glyphs feature in Video Investigator.

14. Reconstruction-These techniques use the velocity filters to perform different operations based on the motion estimated by the velocity filter. Frame Fusion allows the user to use the velocity information to reconstruct the movie using information from several frames to improve each frame and improve the quality of the movie. Mosaic Reconstruction uses the velocity information to reconstruct a single frame image based on the common information in all of the frames. Stabilization Reconstruction allows the user to use the velocity information to stabilize video footage and is very useful in visualizing what is going on in the movie. The Movie Stabilization Wizard is a tool that combines the velocity and reconstruction process into one filter and allows the user to calculate the
motion automatically and to stabilize your movie and create a mosaic image of your movie. Panorama allows you to create a panoramic view of your movie using velocity information. All of these techniques have been developed by Cognitech scientists.

15. Photogrammetry-this is a technique that allows the user to go back to a crime scene and take in the scene.

For additional information, you may email us at info@putitonvideo.net or call us at 515-453-2209.

OTHER SERVICES....

Video To DVD

Our Video To DVD Service can convert your important video footage to high quality and long-lasting DVD. We can convert most formats including VHS, VHS-C, SVHS, Beta, 8mm (Video8), Hi8, Digital8, and MiniDV tape. For archival purposes, DVD is definitely the format to consider. For additional information, you may email us at info@putitonvideo.net or call us at 515-453-2209.

DVD Duplication

Our DVD Duplication service can provide you with as many dvd's as you need, from 1 to 10,000...quickly and economically.....all guaranteed to work. And with our Life-Time Disc Guarantee, if your any of the dvd's that we make for you are ever damaged, you may return them to us for free resurfacing and/or repair...anytime...no questions asked! Don't forget about our full-color, photo quality disc printing and custom packaging services. For additional information, you may email us at info@putitonvideo.net or call us at 515-453-2209.

CD-Rom Duplication

Need your CD-Rom duplicated. Our fast and very affordable service will make you smile. Any quantity, from 1 to 10,000....all guaranteed to work. And with our Life-Time Disc Guarantee, if your any of the cd's that we make for you are ever damaged, you may return them to us for free resurfacing and/or repair...anytime...no questions asked! And, don't forget about our full-color, photo quality disc printing and custom packaging services. For additional information, you may email us at info@putitonvideo.net or call us at 515-453-2209.

Videotape Duplication

For those of you who refuse to advance from the pre-historic age (only joking!!!), we offer our economical and fast -turnaround Videotape Duplication Service. From 1-1000 copies can be duplicated on time and on budget. Custom label printing is also available. A wide variety of packaging solutions is also available. For additional information, you may email us at info@putitonvideo.net or call us at 515-453-2209.

Photos From Video

We can produce photos from your videotape. Any format can be used, however, digital video generally produces the best images for photos. Remember, the final result that you get when you make photos from video is in direct relation to the quality of the video that you're copying from. For additional information, you may email us at info@putitonvideo.net or call us at 515-453-2209.

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