Sunday, September 18, 2011

Vancouver Riots - running the footage

Vancouver Police Thought It Would Take 2 Years to Analyze Riot Footage - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
Chu says that the DMEPL will be able to process the 1,600 hours of footage in three weeks rather years. So what is this magical lab? It's actually just 20 workstations running a system called dTective from Ocean Systems, which works in combination with Avid Technology Media Composer to aid forensic analysis. Avid Lanshare connects the stations together to guide the workflow.