Announcing our own multimedia superstars!

Congratulations to Ed Primeau and Doug Ruben, the first members to submit approved multimedia projects. They received $75 membership bucks per submission! Check out their videos here:
http://www.youtube.com/ACFEI.

A program I did for Speaker Net News which still receives great comments and feedback: http://www.speakernetnews.com/tsem/ts20030820.html

How do you create a video brochure that gets you hired? What do you need to make sure you include and what must you never show? Too many times professional speakers have a poor video and don't know it, yet wonder why it doesn't bring them business. This program will help you create a video brochure that sells the value of your presentation. Learn from the lessons of Ed's 20 years working with professional speakers.
You will learn:
How to get great footage every time you videotape your presentation.
What goes into a great video brochure.
What you must make sure to exclude.
How to position yourself and your message to the appropriate audience.
How to source a videographer in the city you are speaking.
How much a video brochure should cost.

Terry Brock visits Ed Primeau in Michigan every year for a weekend of mastermind creativity as well as apple picking in the finest apple state in the USA. During one of Terry's visits, he interviewed Ed about video and video marketing. You can view this video here:

Dating over 40
Dating when you are out of practice is not easy. If you have been through a divorce, your confidence level may be harmed which will keep you from finding the courage to peruse another relationship. The best things for you to do under this situation are to recognize the fact that your confidence is low and take the steps to rebuild and strengthen your confidence.

If you have gained weight or become frumpy, do something about it. Start an exercise program, any program. Try Yoga or palliates. Join a Gym, anything to get you physically again.

The amount of calories you consume must be less the amount of calories you burn each day in order to loose weight. I fond that when I had to loose weight, I was too dormant and not active enough to burn the amount of calories I was consuming.

Your inner glow and beauty naturally come back strong about three weeks into an every day at the gym change of life. Exercise also helps reduce stress, make menopause easier because of the hormone release and balance.

Once you start feeling better about yourself, get some new cloths. Have a department consultant or personal shopper help you learn how to try new things. Have somebody color match you. There are colors you look better in than others. Mine happen to be sage and navy blue.

When I went through my second divorce, I opened my very own charge account using my new address, which happened to be my mother’s house. Talk about low self esteem!

I joined a gym and lost nearly 40 pounds without a lot of hassle dieting. I just stayed active and all of a sudden the pounds began to shed. This is much easier when you are younger. As we age, even if we are cool old guys, our metabolism slows down ad makes it harder to shed the pounds. Keep in mind, less food more exercise. This along with some new cloths will make you ready for action.

If you really want to attract a new partner, get a manicure and pedicure. Guys, clean well groomed nails are a huge turn on your ladies. Ladies, you know how important it is to keep your nails pained and filed even.

Now there will be some of you reading this who considers yourself plain. That’s ok as long as you look for somebody who shares the similar belief about grooming. Don’t expect to attract somebody you don’t yourself represent. Enough said about that.

Now that you look and feel better about yourself, go deep and determine if you are ready to begin looking for a relationship. The dating process has changes drastically today than it was say 10 years ago. It’s much more difficult to find your soul mate in a bar than it use to be.

Today, looking for potential partners is a bit different if you are out of high school or college. The internet has created all sorts of virtual social communities that are designed for people to meet each other.

Guys, to be cool, don’t make a typical p-r-o-f-i-l-e-, do something cool! Have a good writer help you write a charming profile. You MUST add humor, ladies like to laugh.

Don’t upload that picture when you and what’s her name were married with her cut off. Also, use a current picture; NOT your college graduation photo ok?

If you really want to be cool, make an animated bitmap of your picture to get more attention! (Google animated bitmap to learn how).
A moving bitmap has three or four images that count as a static upload but actually move. If you look around the Internet, you will see them.

You have to have a discussion via email before the phone call. You have to have a phone call before the face to face. Conversation (using text and/or words to win her over before the physical attraction is confirmed is a must.

If you hit it off with a person on line, the nest step is to meet at a public location to see if there is any physical attraction to warrant the next meeting or step in growing the relationship.

Before you get all worked up, create a perfect profile for your internet dating strategy.

Lastly, to get this right and have success, create a list of things or characteristics you want in your date. How can you find what you are looking for if you don’t know who you are looking for?

Today I am with the woman of my dreams, but I had to work hard for her. My list I made to find her had 15 characteristics (and features) for the perfect woman. She nailed all 15.

In closing, this is a summary of things to do for successful dating over 40 and to be a cool old guy:
build your self confidence, clean up your self and your act, don’t talk too much about you, be interested and listen to what she has to say, get a manicure, change your appearance to look like a stud, learn to lighten up and be funny, learn to dance, get hip, listen to cool music and be flipping happy! Nobody likes a looser or downer.

Ed Primeau is a cool old guy and President and CEO of www.VideoProductionPrimeau.com a world renowned video production and internet marketing company.

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CAUGHT On Video
Cameras, Computers and Control; Convenience or Conspiracy

The next time you walk down a city street, take a look around you and notice the number of video cameras and motion activation devices present that help control traffic, regulate complicated machinery and deter crime. They’re right there next to the street lights and traffic signals. Government buildings, police cars and even shopping malls use video surveillance equipment in many ways. This same equipment used to control and regulates traffic flow and machinery is known as CCTV video systems. One purpose is to regulate and another is to deter.

It is interesting that criminals have become aware of CCTV systems and consider the cameras when planning their strategy for a criminal activity.
CCTV is a visual assessment tool. Visual Assessment means having proper identifiable or descriptive information during or after an incident. These systems should not be used independently from other security measures. Identification goals to consider when implementing a CCTV system:
1. Personal Identification: ability of the viewer to personally identify something within the scene, beyond a shadow of a doubt. This does not reflect human identification, but rather, the ability to identify specific information or objects within an image.
Personal identification has two very important phases: The relationship of size and detail of an image, and the angle of view from which the scene is viewed. Without careful consideration of both aspects, your CCTV system merely records useless, unidentifiable images.
2. Action Identification: ability of the system to capture the events occurring in front of the camera as they actually happened. Because of the need for accuracy, using time-lapse video could cause problems. For example, if using a digital recorder or DVR, with a low image per second frame rate setting, some images may not be captured on the recorder. The lower frame rate setting is desired by many digital CCTV system users to reduce storage requirements of surveillance video on hard drives. The upside is with the cost of hard drive space becoming more economical, digital CCTV systems should be upgraded so the images per second feature can be increased and more surveillance video stored for review should it become necessary. On the Primeau Productions You Tube page, there are video examples of this frame rate scenario.
Another problem in the analogue systems, when a Multiplexor switches between cameras for viewing different areas under security, an activity could occur at one of surveillance areas while that camera is off and another is on. Multiplexor’s are like video switchers, they periodically switch cameras to view by security personnel. The output of the multiplexor is most always recorded to a time lapse video tape recorder using ½ inch tape stock.
3. Scene Identification: ability for the scene to stand on its own merit. In a building with many similar hallways, equipped with surveillance cameras having similar angles of view, how can the hallways be differentiated when a CCTV monitor or tape is viewed? If an action is being recorded, how can each hallway be distinguished from the others? Scene identification is an important, but often overlooked, form of identification vital to effective video systems.

There’s no margin for error when it comes to public safety. Metropolitan police departments all across the country are doing their best to deter criminal activity. When it can’t be prevented, the agencies want to apprehend and help prosecute the perpetrators. With human resources stretched thin, video surveillance has become a critical tool in the war on crime; it puts thousands of extra “eyes” on the street 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Insight Video Net, LLC (IVN) has emerged as a leading provider of digital media software and services to capture and manage video, especially for the public safety market. IVN has developed software called the Central Management System, or CMS, to store, retain and manage the video that comes from “fixed” as well as “mobile” cameras. CMS makes sense of huge amounts of raw video and turns it into indisputable evidence admissible in court.

Cameras in public have become a way of life and we have grown to accept them and are use to them. In a city environment, a camera is connected to a closed circuit video television system hence the term (CCTV). This system has the ability to regulate the traffic by adjusting traffic signals according to traffic conditions.

In law enforcement, video recording systems are installed in most police cruisers and help bring accidents, drunk driving and other traffic stop situations into the court room. Video forensic experts help courts understand video evidence and video evidence admissibility.

From high tech tom low tech, CCTV systems come in many shapes and sizes and wired and wireless combinations. Two manufacturers of high tech systems are Pelco and IVC. Less complicated systems are manufactured by Fairfax Electronics and Safe Mart.

Pelco has one of the largest CCTV systems is in place in the Denver, Colorado. It is one of the most intricate and largest CCTV systems in place in a city today.
The Denver system manufactured by Pelco is comprised of hundreds of closed circuit cameras in dozens of municipal locations both indoor and outdoor and all connected to a very large computer that can be monitored in many different locations.

IVC also specializes in multi-site video networks with remote access to live and stored video and equipment activity.

CCTV systems play a major role in healthcare organizations and hospital operations. Medical practitioners rely on CCTV systems to critical care units under observation 24 hours a day seven days a week.

It is this author’s contention that:
1. Within five years, every major city across America will have a surveillance system similar to Denver’s in place as well as surveillance systems that will require Video Forensic Consultants involved in litigation to help courts understand the evidence being presented.

2. There are three primary drivers of video surveillance.
a. The ability to control access to areas that have restrictions, i.e., birth centers, emergency departments, pharmacies, surgical areas.
b. The ability to deter crime
c. The ability to record data and measure statistical information over a period of time.

3. General surveillance for after-the-fact (Forensic) investigations will continue to play a major role in litigation.

4. The ability to activity for security and non-security purposes will save institutions substantial amounts of money annually .

Through service agreements, a $2.5 million performance contract, and ongoing support, Johnson Controls has helped WJMC reduce operating costs, improve comfort conditions for patients and staff, enable facility personnel to be more efficient, and significantly
Reduce energy consumption. In mid-2007, WJMC became the first hospital in Louisiana to earn an ENERGY STAR® from the U.S. EPA. In addition, Johnson Controls has helped the hospital to improve ventilation, maximize the efficiency of a new central energy plant,
Manage utility bills effectively and continuously improve facility management practices.

In an interview between Pelco (A global leader in CCTV systems) and Tony W. York, CHPA, and CPP, Mr. York stated:

“Video security is a fabulous tool, when it is integrated with door and alarm controls, inventory tagging systems. Another thing that is really important is the retrieval of the captured video, which provides instant access for those after-the-fact investigations. I would call it revolutionary”.

Concerns over violent crime and civil liability lawsuits have caused schools, large corporations and small businesses to investigate avenues for securing their operations. Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) systems are a popular security tool to combat such problems.
Computer graphics digitally placed on the monitor and video cannot be relied on to provide the sole method of scene identification. These graphics can aid in identifying one scene from another when both have a similar angle of view. Without being able to identify the scene on its own merit, it would be easy to argue that the graphics were added to the tape after the fact.

Preventing crime may be a goal but is not always the result of the billions of dollars worth of closed circuit television systems in use today. Often times the video footage retrieved from CCTV systems adds a degree of perplexity to due process.

Video surveillance evidence has the potential of lengthening a litigation proceeding beyond that same proceeding without video evidence.

It takes additional time and manpower in the legal system for clerical, administrative and legal to have a video forensic expert examine video evidence as well as the video expert. This evidence is either analogue (becoming extinct) or digital.

Motions have to be filed in court for an expert to be able to examine the evidence which adds time and expense to the case. Experts often have to travel to the evidence as law enforcement is often skeptical and reluctant to release video evidence in fear it may become damaged or lost in transit. Authorities must maintain a chain of custody with video forensic evidence the same way they would with any other forensic evidence.
This consideration adds time and cost to a case that has to be paid. Often times it is the court, public defenders office or another branch of government that absorbs these costs in criminal matters. Other times it’s the defense or plaintiff in a civil matter who will incur the costs of having forensic video evidence authenticated and admitted into the courtroom.

As a video forensic expert, I have testified in cases where analogue (VHS) as well as digital video evidence was used. Both require a different methodology for examination and authentication. Every case I have testified in is unique and each judge overseeing those cases has reacted differently to the video evidence presented.

Many courts do not understand video forensic technology which is why it is sometimes looked at as a junk science. However, In an April 12th, 2005 article, the New York Times reported “400 court cases dropped or acquitted because of VIDEO EVIDENCE contradicting POLICE LIES”.

The courts that accept video evidence supported by a video forensic expert are usually those that involve an experienced trial attorney. So when presenting video evidence today, analogue or digital, admissibility boils down to the arguments of admissibility given by the presenting attorney. When accepted, video evidence can help a jury understand a crime scene or situation more clearly.

Digital video evidence has a better chance of admissibility in court if the evidence follows a chain of custody protocol. Just like other evidence in a crime, law enforcement personnel are responsible for witnessing the exporting of the video evidence and delivering to evidence police lock up for examination by a qualified video forensic expert. Analogue tapes should also be picked up by law enforcement and taken to police lock up for future examination by a qualified video forensic personnel.
Often times, each party in the litigation will hire their own video forensic expert. For example, in criminal cases, the police have crime labs that employ forensic video experts and the defense seek outside expert assistance.
In Civil cases, each party will often seek a forensic expert depending on the position of each side with regard to the video evidence. One example would be authentication and another would be admissibility.

Closed circuit TV, crime scene recreation video and cruiser traffic stop footage as evidence has become an element in litigation virtually overnight. Law enforcement agencies and our legal system have come to accept video as evidence in the courtroom and have become accustom to video forensics as a legitimate science.

Unfortunately, those engaged in legal proceedings from time to time try to alter video evidence in their favor which is where the science of video forensics becomes a value to the legal proceeding.

There are two recording formats for Closed Circuit TV security systems CCTV:

1. Digital is video recorded onto a computer hard drive
2. Analogue is video recorded onto a magnetic tape

A CCTV system is a closed circuit television security system that employs cameras and either an analogue tape based recorder or digital computer or DVR-digital video recorder- based video recorder. Both record camera views onto their system and store them for later viewing, reviewing or in the case of a crime committed, identifying.

Multiple cameras can be installed at a large or small location and viewed as well as recorded simultaneously on either analogue or digital format. Analog incorporating multiplexers, digital incorporates software programs.
The more sophisticated systems like the ones Indianapolis manufacturer Pelco carries, and has in place in Denver, have many adjustments, settings, frame options and video export options as well as signal routing features. The lower end VHS systems are pretty straight forward and easy to operate but have less features and options. Both systems can incorporate point, tilt zoom or steady non moving cameras. The point tilt zoom cameras (PTZ) can move to follow action both automatically and manually. This activity can be operated by security personnel manually or through a technology of motion activation that detects the change in gray scale in the dedicated area. In the second situation of motion activation, the PTZ camera will be activated and follow the motion as it occurs.

Non moving cameras capture the area under security in a stationary fashion. The advantage to DVR’s is that the quality is far superior to analogue especially when images must be retrieved for identification purposes or crime scene recreation. Digital formats add compression to the CCTV video which decreases the size of the video files allowing more video to be stored in the DVR.

Some video evidence in cases where analogue video was used as evidence was recorded on time lapse VHS tape which has been recycled many times. The examination and authentication process requires a different process to authenticate than digital video. Only Hollywood can produce a high quality image from a worn out pixilated (give a definition) time lapse, low resolution analogue video tape of the suspected crime.

When you factor in how much money it could cost to recover from the crime, pay a forensic expert to try and recover an image, purchasing a digital CCTV system is a much better investment and will produce better forensic results.

Tape or analogue systems often fail to show useable evidence in a court of law. The main reason is because tapes are recycled over and over and even accidentally erased.

Once a crime has been committed and caught on a digital recording device (DVR), a back up digital video can immediately be made of the crime using digital video technology. This back up video often called "book marking" or an” Alarm File" which is immediately taken out of the normal refresh cue and stored in a safe area for further forensic examination.

When analogue video is entered as evidence, the court or police make copies for all parties involved in the litigation. Those copies experience generation loss, similar to making copies of a document on a copy machine. Additionally, when storing analogue video with repeated playing often has degradation to the original crispness of the image on the video tape especially if the tape has been recycled which is often the case. It is much more difficult and expensive to create an image from a 75 dots per inch analogue recycled tape than it is to create an image from a 300 dots per inch digital image. There is no comparison. The digital video proves time and time again a much clearer image.

Think about a crime free society using closed circuit television systems. These security systems reduce the potential for crime in your business, institution or community. There are bleeding edge closed circuit television systems that can increase security, reduce loss and prevent crime as well as control intricate machinery and just about other activity you can imagine. Closed Circuit Video Surveillance is once step closer to having a crime free society safely operating businesses, schools and institutions.

Side Bar:
Here are some suggested maintenance tips for both Analogue and Digital CCTV systems:
1. Clean your camera lenses and weather proof housings often. This will help produce clearer video when you need it.

2. Outdoor cameras and weatherproof housings can become especially dirty and be moved by birds, weather and other unexpected elements. Housings have seals that can become worn out and break to let in vapor that can blur video images.

3. Test your digital or analogue recorder monthly to assure all cameras look good and are pointed at the appropriate areas and replace any poorly functioning cameras or recording equipment.

4. Clean the tape heads of your analogue video record deck with a head cleaner that can be purchased from Radio Shack or on line. In addition, it is also necessary to have your analogue record decks serviced annually. Since they record virtually non stop, the record heads become magnetized from use. Servicing will demagnetize your analogue video recorder tape heads and remove magnetic build up that can cause poor record quality.

5. Prepare for a new world of technology in video evidence. Upgrade your current systems to digital and become familiar with forensic experts who can help you understand video evidence in legal matters.

References

www.YouTube.com/PrimeauProductions
2 Copyright © 2007 Pivot3, Inc. All rights reserved.; specifications subject to change without notice. Pivot3 RAIGE is a trademark or registered trademark of Pivot3. CS IVN V2.1 June 2007
3 www.Pelco.com www.IVCCO.com
4 http://www.at-fairfax.com/ http://www.safemart.com/
5 High-Tech Prisons: Latest Technologies Drive Cost Savings and Staff Efficiencies
By Hodgson, Glen Publication: Corrections Today http://www.allbusiness.com/technology/974661-1.html
6 Case Study West Jefferson Medical Center, Marrero Louisiana-http://www.johnsoncontrols.com/publish/etc/medialib/jci/be/case_studies.Par.42109.File.tmp/WestJeffersonFINAL.pdf
7 Pelco interview with Tony York taken from www.Pelco.com
8 The Professional's Guide to CCTV: Application and Design of CCTV, written by Charlie Pierce, was used as a reference source for this summary.
9 By JIM DWYER The New York Times April 12, 2005

Death of a Speaker
By Ed Primeau

It was 1998; the professional speaking industry was receiving national attention thanks to the leadership of Dr. Terry Paulson CSP, CPAE and the National Speakers Association Board of Directors.

CBS news was at the National Speakers Association Convention in San Antonio interviewing members for a 60 minutes television segment on the business of professional speaking. Professional Speaking was off and running as a legitimate profession. Unfortunately the show didn’t turn out as we thought but American’s (and many other countries around the globe) were all officially introduced to the professional speaking profession using a very impressive message delivery system, television. What they failed to cover was the difference between professional speakers and experts who speak professionally.

Ten years later, our nation survived a terrorist attack and is in the process of recovering from a recession. Both continue to stun the meetings industry. Professional speaking, as usual, will never be the same ever again!

The industry known as professional speaking is dying. It is dying because professional speakers are not evolving with the marketplace and for that matter the business world at large!

We see it first hand ever day as professional speakers are now looking for jobs. Former school teachers who jumped on the professional speaking band wagon years ago and made a decent living are now unemployed. The main reason this is happening is those professionals have not done anything to evolve. They are waiting for the old school industry to return.

Those professional speakers who are “experts who speak professionally” and know how to be visionaries are the platform orators who will survive and thrive as the industry heals itself.

Fact: Experts, who speak professionally, not just professional speakers, are a vital commodity to corporate America because they can teach, motivate and change the attitude of hundreds of people anywhere in the world in an hour or less.

Fact: The professional speaking industry will never be the same again. Professional speakers whom are not experts who speak professionally will eventually perish and die. The meetings industry can see right through the old fake it till you make it mentality.

Fact: Professional speakers are starting to come outside their heads like a refugee coming out of a bomb shelter after an air attack looking around to see who is left alive. Experts who speak professionally are realizing that they have to reinvent themselves.

Primeau Productions Inc. and I have seen a lot of professional speakers come and go. In the following items, we hope to communicate a non arrogant description of a surviving professional speaker. These activities are a collection of items written by Primeau productions staff that experts who speak professionally engage in today.

So, what are the characteristics of a surviving speaker?

Humble
Professional speakers are survivors because they know how to make it through the tough times. They are not arrogant and reluctant to negotiate fees and add value when necessary. They are not insistent on limousines and first class tickets.

Education
Survivor professional speakers continue to learn and grow. They are not broad in subject and able to speak on just about any topic that a client willing to pay for. They are experts and continue to learn and grow rather than remain idol and passive.

Instead, a survivor professional speaker is willing to adapt to market conditions, trends and do whatever it takes to get the job done and impact lives.

Fee structure
Professional speakers are willing to have a fee range instead of a “fee”.
Professional speakers who are experts who speak professionally understand value and negotiation and are not arrogant about negotiation. They shop for the best price when looking for a service and understand their prospects also want to shop around negotiate.

Unique
There are way too many speakers who call themselves “professional speakers” and way too many bureaus who call themselves “speaker’s bureaus”.

Professional speakers who have a brand which is a clear statement prospects remember them by are survivors. Who do you think of when you hear Spreading Contagious Enthusiasm, Attitude is Everything, The Fred Factor?

Speaker’s bureaus that represent a few select professional speakers who are the best of the best will survive. They fill have evolved and provide a service for corporations who need help discovering the speakers to best deliver the perfect message for their organization.

Self Promotion
Survivor professional speakers have a professional website and of course have a world class preview video. They do not rely on speakers bureaus alone to bring them business, but also know how to promote themselves using social media to publish and promote their knowledge.

They are willing to consider alternative marketing strategies like viral video and social media as well as blog’s. They know how to pick and choose the outlets that will help them promote their message and distribute it professionally to those appropriate outlets.

The bottom line is that this industry was built on people helping people to succeed. If some have been fortunate enough to earn a living from helping people, that is wonderful. Napoleon Hill, W. Clement Stone, Earl Nightengale, Og Mandino and Cavett Robert all delivered a message to help people succeed and made a wonderful living from their efforts.

If you are reading this and feel that you do not have anything different to contribute to help people success, get out while you have time before you deplete your life savings. If you are a bureau and have no vested interest in helping people succeed, time to but a fast food franchise.

Rather than just sell every speaker without knowing whether each speaker you represent is still in the business or not, then get another occupation. Make room for those speakers’ bureaus that really have a purpose and mission of helping other people succeed. Yes, there are speaker’s bureaus who still list retired speakers, speakers who have left the industry, and speakers who have even died on their websites. How arrogant to think companies will buy from them!

Be a caring individual with a definite purpose and you will be a survivor.

The Video Revolution Continues
Screen capture program aids in forensics, training and marketing

Video is a useful tool that has become woven into the fabric of our day to day lives. At Primeau Productions Inc. http://www.videoproductionprimeau.com/ we help our clients create and develop video that helps their businesses grow. One of the software programs we use as a tool is Mac and PC compatible, Camtasia Studio by TechSmith. Camtasia is a screen capture program that turns any computer screen into a marketing and educational experience. It allows the user to record a video of any computer screen while narrating instructions of what you are demonstrating in the video.

Businesses are using video more and more for sales and support, as well as information and training. Software programs like Camtasia help production companies produce high end videos that help businesses and professionals create video products and add video to their websites.

As the Internet continues to grow and the Video Revolution expands, computers will become more widespread as our main video viewing mechanism replacing cable television. TV advertising will be reduced and Internet advertising will skyrocket.

Camtasia is an excellent software program we use as one of our tools to produce training videos for our sister company http://www.ouraftercare.com/, a suite of web solution modules for the funeral industry. We also use Camtasia as a screen capture program for video forensics.
I help my coaching students understand how Camtasia works and we create training and marketing videos they use in their business to help increase efficiency and perceived value.

I also use Camtasia in my forensic practice. I recently had an assignment where the digital video was provided to me for clarification on a cd embedded in a CCTV surveillance proprietary digital video player.

As an aside, security companies who provide digital surveillance video use proprietary video players to keep their surveillance footage secure for later use identifying crimes. However, when I am asked to clarify security footage, it is necessary to have that video outside the proprietary player so other supporting software programs like Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro and Photo Shop can aid in the clarification.

Digital security video is created to be secure and the manufacturers that make digital CCTV systems use technology to encrypt the digital video footage so it can not be manipulated and is reliable in court as authentic. However, as a forensic expert, often times I am asked to clarify events that were not captured clearly so the appropriate outcome can be achieved.

Most CCTV digital video manufactured today has alternative export options in addition to the secure digital video players such as MPEG and AVI. Once the video or images are exported using MPEG or AVI formats; the video is no longer authentic or secure. The video forensic expert has to qualify the work performed and justify to the court why forensic processes are necessary.

So, this recent forensic assignment provided CCTV surveillance footage from a digital CCTV system that did not have the capability to export MPEG or AVI images. Only the predatory video player could be used to view this footage which needed clarification.

Camtasia was a tool I used to capture crisp clean footage from this surveillance system and identify the information necessary to aid in the investigation.

How can you use video in your business to increase your perceived value?

Drop me an email anytime and I would be happy to help you brainstorm ways or answer any questions you have regarding video and The Video Revolution!

800-647-4281