Salient Stills Enables Easy Video Import, Capture, Conversion and Export

VFSource Quickly Captures Video From Many Sources — Analog and Digital, Proprietary and Non-Proprietary

BOSTON, MA, May 1, 2007 — Salient Stills, a leading video forensics and image enhancement software company, today introduced its agile VFSource video import, screen capture, analog capture and conversion system, designed to allow law enforcement and other users to quickly and easily capture surveillance and security video, for immediate use and forensics. Salient Stills' VFSource captures video from a wide variety of analog and digital sources, for investigative use, sharing with other agents in the field, and further processing and forensics in a crime lab.

VFSource digitizes analog video and digital video from open and proprietary systems, and easily converts video to popular formats for viewing by other investigators and agents. As crime scene and surveillance video becomes a more common source of evidence, VFSource preserves video integrity, enabling further video forensics and allowing video to be used in prosecutions.

"There is more video camera, cell phone and CCTV video available to law enforcement today that ever before, making it a challenge for crime labs and police departments to efficiently capture video for investigations. With VFSource, we've made it easy for law enforcement agents to capture video, import video from a variety of analog and digital formats, and have usable video ready in minutes," said Laura Teodosio, president and CTO of Salient Stills. "The sooner video is available, the faster investigations can proceed. And with VFSource, police officers and other law enforcement agents don't have to be IT experts or video professionals to capture crime scene, investigative and surveillance video."

VFSource:

• Can be utilized as a prep station, a stand alone, or a mobile unit, with extraordinary speed, simplicity and flexibility;
• Was designed and tested with law enforcement, meeting the critical needs of officers working with digital video files;
• Screen captures video from proprietary digital video players, allowing users to highlight an area of an active video player window for capture, or use pre-defined crop areas, with all final movie frames displayed at the correct moment in time when they occurred in the original video;
• Imports non-proprietary digital files and digitizes analog video sources;
• Enables users to perform simple cropping, trimming and frame selection, so videos can be edited to include only the most important information;
• Convert video to a usable form (codec and file type) appropriate for either analysis or sharing, so that, used as a prep station, it helps agencies reduce video backlogs, turning previously unusable video into usable, sharable form, ready for analysis; and
• Exports video as industry standard movie files, including .MOV or .AVI, with numerous codec options, and allows for the correction of square/non-square pixels and frame-rate on export.

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About Salient Stills
Founded in 1997, Salient Stills is a leading video forensics and image enhancement software company. From technology conceived at the MIT Media Lab, Salient Stills introduced its technology to answer the need for an efficient and effective video image enhancement solution. VideoFOCUS Pro and VF Source are video forensics solutions in use by law enforcement, security and military and intelligence agencies. For more information on Salient Stills visit www.salientstills.com.

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