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From Pixels to Evidence:
Enhance Your Knowledge In Video Forensics

Welcome to the Amped Blog, dedicated to image and video forensics!

Whether you’re an experienced forensic analyst or just getting started with video evidence, we’ll surely have something for you. Here you can learn more about how to properly handle images and videos to improve your investigations, starting from the field, up to the forensic lab, and then to the courtroom. 

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Amped FIVE Update 42844: Encrypted File Formats, Atom Viewer, Multiscale [...]
14 min
The latest Amped FIVE update helps you spend less time troubleshooting CCTV footage and more time analyzing evidence. Access video from two popular encrypted formats, examine MP4 container issues, and handle changing video resolutions. Improved annotation and project tools also make it easier to prepare and present your findings.
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David Spreadborough • October 15, 2026
Unlock the Power of Video Evidence Presentation with Amped FIVE
19 min
Presenting video evidence in court requires more than making footage visible: timing, synchronization, resolution, annotations and processing choices can all affect interpretation. In this guide, learn how to use Amped FIVE to create forensic video timelines, slow-motion sequences, synchronized multiviews, PDF image sequences, comparative illustrations and other court-ready demonstratives while documenting every processing step applied.
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Emi Polito • October 7, 2026
How to Prepare Compelling and Safe Digital Multimedia Evidence for Court [...]
14 min
Preparing video evidence for court means making it clear, accessible, and defensible, not merely playable. In this guide, you’ll learn how to use Amped Replay to address playback issues, extract relevant footage, enhance, redact and annotate evidence, create viewing logs and comparative illustrations, and export court-ready material with a documented workflow.
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Emi Polito • September 15, 2026
Amped DVRConv and Engine Update 41489: Video Libraries Improvements and [...]
4 min
This DVRConv and Engine update brings FFmpeg 8 support, improved decoding and conversion. It also adds support for new proprietary formats, encrypted Hikvision IMKH MP4 files, clearer encryption warnings, and fixes a crash affecting some HEIC files.
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Emi Polito • July 29, 2026
Enhanced Reflections

Enhanced Reflections

AI-generated CSAM: Artificial Images, Real Harm
10 min
AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is never victimless. This article explains how synthetic CSAM, deepfakes, and “nudification” apps create real harm, strain investigations, exploit real images, and demand stronger awareness, regulation, safeguards, and forensic analysis.
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Martino Jerian | July 1, 2026
Fifty Shades of Fake: Deepfakes, AI Enhancement, and Media Auth[...]
10 min
AI tools can make blurred or low-quality media look clearer, but they can also invent convincing details that were never captured. This article explains how forensic image and video enhancement, deepfakes, and computational photography are blurring the line between authenticity, integrity, and evidentiary reliability.
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Martino Jerian | April 16, 2026
Amped: Software and Much More
8 min
At year’s end, Martino Jerian, CEO and Founder of Amped Software, looks beyond features and release notes to explain what Amped Software is really building. From forensic tools and training to research, community, and policymaker outreach, this post connects our daily work to a single mission: justice through science. It’s about reducing unsolved crimes, preventing […]
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Martino Jerian | December 18, 2025

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