VidReport

VidReport is a tool for the processing and reporting of video files (AVI's, MOV's etc.)

VidReport can be purchased by selecting the purchase software link from the site menu.

VidReport can be used as a 'normal' video player to view the contents of the video, but in addition VidReport can parse the file and display just a selection of frames, i.e. 1 frame in 10, or 100 evenly spaced frames from within the video. When used in this mode the generation of the report is typically 10 to 20 times faster than the viewing of the complete video. the report can then be saved (as an HTML file) and produced as part of the evidence.

VidReport provides the following functions

• View or Extract all frames from a video as JPGs

• View or Extract a selection of frames from a video as JPGs

• Base selected frames on change of frame content

• Create HTML reports of all or a selection of video frames

• Batch process multiple video files

• Supports most video file formats (third party codecs may be required)

The main screen of VidReport shows a simple Video Player and allows the user to view the video as 'normal'.



Alternatively you can use VidReport to generate a report displaying thumbnails from individual frames.

VidReport allows you to decide how many of the frames from the video you wish to display and will space the frames evenly:



You then get to define the format of the HTML report specifying the size of each Frame and the number of frames to display on a page:



The report is then created as a HTML file than can be saved and/or printed as required:


VidReport now includes a similarity trigger, simply put this examines each frame in a series comparing to the last frame, if the similarity is high then the second frame is not included in the report.

You can get an idea of how effective this can be in determining the story line of a video sequence by looking at the following screenshots of a VidReport HTML report.

The first shows the first 54 frames from a report that was generated on a short video clip (1 minute 30) containing 2274 frames, VidReport was restricted to including one frame in 12 (every 0.5 seconds) resulting in a report containing 188 frames (most off screen in this image). The similarity trigger has been disabled in this report.


The second screenshot shows that same report but with the similarity trigger enabled and set to not display subsequent frames if they were more than 85% similar to the preceding frame. As you can see from this screenshot the frame count has been reduced to just 32 frames, but the flavour of the video clip has still been accurately maintained.



Download VidReport demo here.