By Alicia Penn and Nelson Garcia
In a case with wiretaps[1] or pen register trap and trace[2] discovery from phone calls or messages, the government may produce the data to you using Package Explorer. Package Explorer is a proprietary viewer that will let you view the data exported from 4Sight UCM, a program used by law enforcement to process information from phones.
You will know you’ve received a Package Explorer file because it will most often look like this:
You can export documents and multimedia files from IPRO Eclipse Publish Case. This guide will walk you through:
By Nelson Garcia and Alex Roberts
Pixillion Image Converter by NCH Software is a low-cost versatile tool designed to convert, compress, and edit images across a wide range of formats. A tool like this can be particularly useful if you receive image formats within discovery that won’t open on your computer, or if you need to convert images to a particular format to send to someone else.
For example, iPhones will commonly store pictures in an HEIC format and Windows computers do not have any built-in programs that can open these files. Pixillion can open and convert these files into other formats (like the commonly used JPG format).
Continue readingShotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor for Windows, Mac, and Linux. It supports a wide range of formats and resolutions including 4K. Features include subtitles, timeline editing, multiple tracks, and various effects.[1]
Subtitling in Shotcut is the focus of this post. Through Shotcut’s subtitling feature, you can create video transcriptions. Shotcut can create, import, edit, export, render, and embed subtitles. Shotcut can also import subtitle formats such as: SRT, VTT, ASS, and SSA. It can translate from most languages to English, and do Speech to Text subtitling in different languages. To do this it uses Whisper.[2] Shotcut also has a Subtitle burn-in feature, meaning it can embed the subtitles into the video so that they are always visible and permanently a part of the file.
Continue readingWhat is De-Duplication?
De-duplication, or “de-duping,” is a way to clean up your files by finding and removing duplicates. Over time, computers and storage drives collect duplicate files—whether from downloads, backups, or shared folders. These duplicates take up space and make it harder to find what you are looking for. De-duping removes duplicate files and thus frees up storage space, speeds up searches and backups, and reduces clutter.
There are different types of duplicate files. Understanding the different types of duplicates is key to choosing the right approach.
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