What if you could schedule your video exports for later, calibrate distortion on action cam footage, and verify every byte in an AVI file — all within your forensic video platform?
Amped Software has released the latest Amped FIVE Update. This delivers a targeted set of enhancements designed to improve analytical control, increase export efficiency, and provide advanced forensic insights. From refined lens correction and precision timing tools to advanced container structure analysis, this update addresses real-world challenges faced by forensic video analysts.
Manage Heavy Video Exports with the New Writing Queue
Writing out long or high-resolution video sequences can tie up your system. With the introduction of the Writing Queue, Amped FIVE now allows you to prepare multiple video exports and process them later, at your convenience.
If you’re handling high-resolution, high-frame-rate, or lengthy evidence chains, now you can queue your jobs for overnight processing or batch them at the end of your shift. No need to sit and wait, just set it and return when it’s done.
This new utility integrates seamlessly into both the Video Writer and Sequence Writer filters. Once queued, writing jobs can be suspended, reordered, resumed, or removed. Everything is managed within an intuitive interface that retains its state across project saves.
Go Beyond Fisheye Correction with Camera Calibration
Distorted bodycam footage? Warped dashcam video?
How do you correct lens distortion when there are no straight lines in your frame?
Traditional filters like Undistort and Correct Fisheye may not be effective, especially when straight reference lines aren’t available.
The new Camera Calibration tools allow you to precisely correct lens distortion based on real calibration footage. Using a printed grid and a short calibration video, you can now generate a dedicated camera profile that can be applied to any evidential footage recorded with the same setup. This is a game-changer for footage from body-worn cameras, dashcams, action cams, and other wide-angle lenses.
The process is straightforward, scientifically sound, and results in clear, distortion-free views that are ready for court. Amped FIVE now supports calibration board configuration, checkerboard detection, and profile saving/loading for streamlined repeat use. This ensures the corrected output is not only visually accurate but also forensically defensible.
RIFF Viewer: See What Your Container Is Made Of
Understanding a video file’s container structure is critical for verifying integrity and troubleshooting playback or decoding issues. With this update, Amped FIVE introduces the RIFF Viewer, a forensic-grade tool for dissecting AVI and other RIFF-based multimedia files.
Now, you can view the file’s raw hexadecimal data alongside a parsed breakdown of the RIFF structure, including headers, streams, chunks, and padding. Spot inconsistencies like missing audio data, mismatched compression flags, or placeholder frames used in variable frame rate recordings, all of which can impact your analysis and reporting.
The RIFF Viewer equips you with the insight needed to trace file origins, identify manipulations, or explain playback issues.
Convert DVR Enhancements: Improved Stream Concatenation
Merging multiple short clips into a coherent video is now easier than ever. Stream concatenation in Convert DVR now checks for uniform timebases (rather than identical frame rates), enabling robust merging of VFR recordings from Wi-Fi or body-worn cameras. The output format is preserved where possible, avoiding downstream compatibility issues.
This update also improves fallback extraction with support for raw H264/H265 streams. This is ideal for rescuing data from damaged or improperly formatted containers.
Also New in This Update
- Video Writer: A new Timing Source parameter gives you granular control over frame duration metadata.
- Decimate: Retain only a constant pattern of frames from your footage
- CTU Enhancements: Visualize Prediction Units in H.265 coding structures
- Multiview Grid: Expanded to 8×8 (up to 64 chains)
- Exportable Logs: Save data from FFMS, MediaInfo, ExifTool, and more
- Load Timestamp Enhancements: Customize input date formats for subtitle data
- Generate Report: Now separates input/output metadata for cleaner documentation
- Improved muxing, MJPEG metadata handling, HEIC support, and macroblock filtering
Ready to Explore the Full Update?
These highlights only scratch the surface of what this powerful new update offers. This release is packed with tools to support your most demanding forensic tasks.
Read the full blog post and explore all the new features!
