Help with Enhancing Photo from Video - Please Help!

[bryanbloom]

I have videostudio 11. I have a video of someone stealing from our truck. This is from our video surveilance. I can capture a still image from the video of the car they were in but I can't make out the license plate. Does anyone know how to increase the resolution of the captured still from the video? If I can get the license plate I can have the thiefs arrested.

Any help is appreciated. If you want the video to try yourself please email me.

Thanks.

Bryan
bryanpriority@yahoo.com

[Ken Berry]

Video Studio comes with a range of Filters, including a Sharpen one. This in turn has various pre-sets, and you can adjust it. Access the filters from the little window up in the top centre of screen, just below the Audio and Share tabs. It normally has the word 'Video' in it by default. Click on the arrow next to it, and select Filters from the drop-down menu.

Hopefully that might give you improved clarity, but I would not be overly hopefully, given the frame size and other quality settings of normal surveillance cameras...

[sjj1805]

Try saving a frame as a bitmap. You may have more luck using an image editing program, such as PhotoImpact or Photoshop.

[bryanbloom]

I am not good at this. There are two video files on http:\\www.prioritymoving.com\paul.htm

You can download the files right there, they are small. This is video of someone stealing from our truck. See if you can capture a frame and get a license plate.

I would be so blown away if anyone can do that. Look forward to hearing from anyone that can do this.

Thanks.

BB

[Ken Berry]

In the first place, the URL you gave uses back-slashes instead of forward slashes.

Second, on substituting the right slashes, it still comes up saying there is nothing there. The prioritymoving.com site is there, but there is nothing with paul.htm (or html)...

[lancecarr]

I could download the files but nothing on my computer can play them as they were created with an unusual codec.
G-Spot reports the code for the codec Fourcc as GEOV...never heard of it.
Did a Google on it and it is a proprietary codec used for specific CCTV purposes created by a company called Geovision. It is an MPEG4 codec.
To the OP, for anyone to able to do anything with these files you will need to convert to something more common.

[bryanbloom]

sorry about the url. it is http://www.prioritymoving.com/paul.htm

if you go there you can right click on the hyperlinks and then select "save target as" to save to your hard drive. the files are .avi files and can be played with any video player, windows media player, ULEAD VideoStudio, etc....

Let me know if you come up with anything.

Thanks

Bryan Bloom

[Ken Berry]

Sorry -- don't know what is going on. This time I could establish the link with the site, and download both Video 1 and 2 .avi However, both play back pure black in WMP (after it says 'codec acquired' which I have never seen it do before); and with both Nero ShowTime and PowerDVD 7.3, it plays but nothing shows on the screen (indeed, Nero closes the screen while it plays; PowerDVD shows the splash screen while it is playing)...

[lancecarr]

Bryan, I understand the files have an avi extension but that is just a wrapper for the proprietary MPEG4 codec that was used to create them. Unless someone has that codec on their computer, which would be unusual, the files wont play.
What I get is exactly what Ken describes.