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Haven't heard of Microsoft Media Platform? A tech evangelist explains that it combines several well-known applications.

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Peer networking and participation in professional associations are both integral components of keeping abreast of your field. The key word in that sentence is participation. Simply joining a group brings little value; volunteering and being actively engaged as time permits increases value exponentially.

Let’s talk a little more about aspect ratio. Always a lively topic everywhere I go, and regularly misunderstood by industry leading CCTV equipment manufacturers, engineers, and other video professionals. Should we correct, when do we correct, how do we correct, and of course the why. I’ve done a few short posts on the topic in the past (here's one), but this will be in a little more detail. Still writing on the fly, just going to break it down into a few posts over time.

On December 8, 2009 North Carolina State University (NCSU) held the 2nd NCSU Forensic Science Symposium.  If you weren't able to make the symposium NCSU has made many of the presentations available online, to include both the slides and a video recording of the event.

Be sure to check out "Image Processing of Forensic Evidence", presented by Dr. John Russ, Emeritus Professor: Material Science & Engineering, NCSU - click here to view the complete presentation.

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The Scientific Working Group on Digital Evidence (SWGDE)has released a DRAFT of version 3.0 of their "Best Practices for Computer Forensics" for public comment. As stated on their Web site, "The purpose of this document is to describe the best practices for collecting, acquiring, analyzing and documenting the data found in computer forensic examinations."

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Complete Omnivore Overview - 32GB Password Protected USB Video & Image Capture Drive - No Windows Administration Rights Required

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Omnivore is a secured, password protected USB thumb drive that contains specialized capture software, which runs directly from the Omnivore drive. No installation or administrative rights are required to operate it. With Omnivore you can easily capture digital video and images into uncompressed formats directly from the system that recorded the media. Omnivore generates an easy-to-read capture report that documents your work.

It seems like an easy question, and when posed as such those asking it clearly want make & model info so they can just add one to their wish list or pull the trigger and purchase it.  Purchasing a PC for almost any need should take a little more thought than that though, especially when it comes to multimedia processing needs.

Review Application Requirements

Understanding the hardware requirements for the software applications you intend to leverage is key.  Minimum specs, GPU & I/O driver support of course, and more should be taken into consideration.  This is also a great time to consider improvements throughout your multimedia workflows, looking for opportunities to save even more time with a new configuration (e.g. transcoding, data transfer, storage & backup efficiencies, etc.).

Today is the big day, the CS5 launch event extravaganza on Adobe.com. Lots of cool stuff on CS5 available on the Adobe site and Adobe TV...too much to list so go check it out.

In the meantime, here's Russell Brown's latest episode where he discusses the new Content Aware Fill feature in Photoshop CS5. Enjoy!

Russell Brown's video was deleted/removed, so here's one from the Photoshop team.

ForensicTV is trying to identify good instructors for our new website www.forensictv.net. What we're are looking for are respected and talented people that you could recommend for all disciplines in Law Enforcement and Public Safety. What I need is the following:

What do 120Hz, 240Hz, 600Hz really mean for the picture quality of your new HDTV?

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Join me on Thursday, March 18th at 1:00 PM EST for Ocean Systems' free 1hr webinar on Processing Video Evidence with Omnivore™ & QuickView LT™:

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If you can't make the live webinar, register anyway and we'll email you the video recording after the session. For a quick overview of the integration between Omnivore™ and QuickView LT™, check out the video below: