UFS Explorer Video Recovery

Overview

UFS Explorer Video Recovery was specially developed for the recovery and analysis of CCTV video data. It includes the entire necessary set of tools: from creating an image from a disk or memory card of the video surveillance system, to exporting video into a universal format available for processing by other software. Disc images can be created in the E01 format, allowing them to be used further with digital evidence processing programs.

Having disk images created by UFS Explorer or other means, the program allows immediate access to current video surveillance data. Both classic file/folder viewing in UFS Explorer style and special viewing mode in the form of a video list are supported. Being built on the basis of the UFS Explorer Professional platform, this product supports most of its features, including building volumes from RAID arrays and supporting a large number of file systems.

Scanning and analysis tools allow you to find video data from recorders whose file systems are not supported, as well as reconstruct damaged or deleted recordings. At the same time, in addition to the standard search for lost data of the UFS Explorer program, two unique data search algorithms are available:

• CCTV scan: a special scanning procedure that automatically recognizes CCTV file systems, CCTV container files and singular CCTV frames and virtually builds a video data structure in RIFF (AVI) format for direct viewing and export. At the same time, there is no conversion of video frames, which makes the video stream correspond to the original.
• RIFF/QTFF scan: another video-specific scan with car driving recorders in mind. This scan allows you to find video streams in formats specific to car dash cams and recover damaged data, especially data that was lost in a crash that damaged the dash cam.

The found data can be exported both in the original format, as it was recorded, and converted to RIFF (AVI) format. The correspondence of the original is also confirmed by the possibility to build a report on the physical location on the disk of each video frame. If the data format does not allow export without conversion (for example, due to a specific codec), such videos can be played by the program or converted to a series of images in TIFF format (lossless).

UFS Explorer Video Recovery has more strict licensing comparing to other UFS Explroer software to reduce the factor of software piracy. For this reasons the software is only licensed to business and government customers. The following options of the software activation are available:

Technical specifications

Key features

Smart scanning procedure

The software automatically recognizes the supported CCTV/EDR formats (file system, video stream, video/audio codecs, vendor-specific metadata, etc.) and restores the lost recordings without the need for any special configurations. No prior analysis of the data is required – all the necessary algorithms are already embedded into the program.

Extensive toolset covering almost any data loss challenge

The application offers an exceedingly broad functionality which mostly overlaps with the one available in the Professional edition of UFS Explorer. It contains tools for work with different storage technologies, complex RAID-based devices, encrypted volumes, virtual disks of popular virtual machines, disks with non-standard sector sizes, defective drives and enables efficient analysis of raw binary data and its convenient editing.

Support of forensic disk images

Aside from conventional disk images, UFS Explorer Video Recovery is capable of processing ones created with professional forensic tools – EnCase Imager and FTK Disk Imager. The utility allows opening and exploring the content of a forensic disk image created for a particular drive, volume or file and makes it possible to scan it for lost data like any ordinary physical storage device.

Special technique for video transmuxing

The obtained footages can be repacked by the software into the universal file format supported by most standard media players. In contrast to transcoding, no changes are made to the actual video or audio content – the original data and codecs remain fully preserved which is of critical importance for the tasks related to the retrieval of digital evidence in the context of forensics and cyber security.

Analysis of the video data

The program is able to analyze the allocation of video data on the disk and can provide a report on the location of frames the video consists of. Moreover, it allows establishing control over the content of files by calculating their checksums – a change of at least one byte can be easily spotted due to the difference of the file’s checksums in several reports.

Advanced methods of data reconstruction

The application is able to reconstruct damaged file systems and recover lost data even in cases of serious storage corruption. When a logical issue leads to the loss of information about the allocation of fragmented files, the program is capable of restoring footages through finding and matching their segments, providing a fully functional video file as a recovery result.

Multiple scanning options

Along with the direct access to the available content, the utility offers several possibilities of the search for deleted and lost information: a scan for CCTV video data with a set of optional filters, recovery of RIFF/QTFF videos recorded EDR systems and a traditional configurable scan to recover files of all types.

Useful supplementary features

The program makes it easy to restore footages recorded on a particular date or by a certain surveillance camera. All recovered videos can be sorted by diverse criteria and previewed directly in the software. Moreover, the software allows extracting each video frame from the recording and converting them into a series of still images. Also, the obtained scan result can be effortlessly saved for further references.

When to use UFS Explorer Video Recovery

Extract the data lost from surveillance systems and event data recorders

The software has been enhanced with a comprehensive range of techniques that enable it to work effectively with closed-circuit television appliances (CCTV) and event data recorders (EDR) used in vehicles. Adapted to the peculiarities of such devices, the program performs the necessary operations automatically which eliminates the need for preliminary examinations and special settings.

"Undelete" the videos removed from a driving recorder

The utility makes it possible to restore recordings that have been mistakenly or maliciously deleted from an EDR system and thus bring back the video evidence that may be crucial in the investigation of a crime, accident and other disputes. The found videos can be previewed directly in the program which makes it easy to locate the needed footage.

Reconstruct videos from an EDR affected by an accident

The damage to a vehicle DRV in a road accident and other issues that prevent its normal functioning may lead to the corruption of the recorded videos and impossibility to play them using standard means. UFS Explorer Video Recovery is able to restore the structure of the damaged storage and reconstructs corrupted videos from their pieces with validation of each video frame.

Work with CCTV/EDR systems in a forensically sound manner

The software operates in the read-only mode and supports various formats of disks images, including ones created with EnCase Imager and FTK Disk Imager, which prevents any possibility for it to affect the source storage or any information on it. Even when the system employs distortion or encryption of video data, the program is capable of performing the decryption and recovery without recoding or in any other way changing the initial frames.

Create forensic reports on the recovered data

The software may come in handy for creating forensic reports as to the location and the analysis of the allocation of frames that constitute a video stream on the storage. Moreover, the program allows creating a report with the list of available files, their properties, checksums calculated for them, the information about the scanned storage, the date of the scan and the time when the report was created.

Repackage footages into a universal delivery format

The utility makes it possible to wrap CCTV recordings of various vendor-specific formats into a universal file container supported by general-purpose media players. It is worthy of note that no conversion or recoding of the original video data is performed so that the obtained video data is guaranteed to match the data on the source disk.