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Legal video plays a larger role all the time. For firms interested in providing various litigation support services internally or those that simply need some editing abilities from time to time, there is the DV Rack. 

DV Rack is Direct-to-disk recording software that also monitors the quality of your audio and video. It’s a powerful set of tools that help you to shoot better, faster, and smarter.

You can download a free trial.

10 essential tools in your laptop. No extra hardware needed.

With DV Rack, a piece of software, you are getting a full rack of virtual gear – a calibrated production monitor, a waveform monitor, a vectorscope, an audio spectrum analyzer, and more – that all make it easy to get the best possible quality out of your camera. Now, you’ll have the same tools used by broadcasting professionals, all running in software on your laptop computer.

Modules Included With DV Rack:

• Digital Video Recorder*
• Professional Field Monitor*
• DV WaveForm Monitor
• Vectorscope
• Automated Quality Monitor
• Audio Spectrum Analyzer
• Video Analyzer
• DV Grabber*
• Timer/Clock Module
• Sureshot Module

* A lite version of this module

Take a look at the full interface here.

In the following article, Microsoft’s Kevin Larson provides a great overview of word recognition. As our industry depends upon OCR and OCW, it never hurts to understand a little more about what happens behind the scenes.

What’s really interesting is how programmers look toward the field of psychology and then apply what they learn to the software. Humans do a great job of recognizing words. Software endeavors to take the same approach.

The Synopsis:

The Science of Word Recognition
or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bouma

by Kevin Larson, July 2004
Advanced Reading Technology, Microsoft Corporation

“[Larson] starts by describing three major categories of word recognition models: the word shape model, and serial and parallel models of letter recognition. [He] presents representative data that was used as evidence to support each model. After all the evidence has been presented, [Larson] will evaluate the models in terms of their ability to support the data. And finally…describe some recent developments in word recognition and a more detailed model that is currently popular among psychologists.”

The Link:

The Science of Word Recognition