How to Record Video Evidence the Right Way with DME Forensics, a Cellebrite Partner
The old-but-common practices of either pointing a camera at a monitor or connecting a recorder to the video output of a DVR in order to record video evidence have two major disadvantages.
1. Speed-The first is the inherent slowness of real-time recording that quickly becomes impractical when hours or days of footage need to be captured. This wastes an examiner’s precious time that can be better spent performing activities that leverage their professional skills and experience.
DME Forensics, a Cellebrite partner that delivers digital and multimedia evidence solutions integrated within the Cellebrite Digital Intelligence Platform, enables direct access to a hard drive that stores the video footage being investigated. This way the data is collected using the fastest method possible so examiners can get on with other work while the video is being exported.
2. Quality-The second downside of documenting video footage the old way is poor result quality. During the recording process, the video can become recompressed on-the-fly, thereby degrading the quality of the visual representation. Additionally, the re-recorded video could contain visual distortions in the form of flickering, incorrect color representation or unclear images due to bad lighting.
DME Forensics’ DVR Examiner accesses a DVR hard drive and can copy the data byte-for-byte, which delivers pixel-perfect quality.
When accessing the surveillance DVR hard drive directly, DVR Examiner also bypasses any system passwords and is also able to recover data from non-functioning systems.
