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Scott Slavin did his homework. "We had hundreds of videos coming in. Stacks of them we needed to get through to solve crimes. We needed a way to get through them fast, one that wouldn’t make me hire somebody just to make the thing run, and something that, beyond a doubt, gave me the clearest extracted images possible." 

A lot of other systems didn’t work for Investigator Slavin. If they’d been built for editing films, they took too much time and money. Some systems didn’t have a demultiplexing feature, to work with video that was gleaned from multiple cameras. Almost all of them were too complex to train his guys on.

VideoFOCUS eliminated all of those problems, and the roadblocks with the people who controlled the budgets. Within its first hours at the department, it had helped him process convenience store video he had rendered useless. It took minutes to extract the images clearly and realize the man in the picture was not their guy.

Since then, he’s used VideoFOCUS on hundreds of cases. With two mobile units he just installed into high end laptops, Scott can actually take the system to the video camera to speed the process. And when he shows up in court, he recreates for juries exactly how the image was enhanced, without manipulation. VideoFOCUS moves so quickly, he recreates the imaging in minutes.

"The way you use it just makes so much sense. It takes about 30 minutes of learning to get it. I’ve got guys who aren’t tech-y and they can do it. The system will not do something that is not forensically sound. In other words, I can trust the data integrity without a doubt in court."

"I don’t need a big complicated system that takes extra money, extra guys or extra time. VideoFOCUS is easy, it generates the best quality images I’ve seen with video image processing, and it works as fast as we do. I can’t say enough good things about it."

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