Video
- Surveillance, CCTV, and doorbell footage
- Body-worn and dash camera video
- Phone video and social media clips
- Brightness, contrast, stabilization, and frame isolation
- Multiple cameras synchronized to one timeline
Forensic Video & Audio Enhancement
Recover what the recording actually captured.
IRIS documents, restores, and enhances video, audio, and photographic evidence — surveillance and doorbell footage, body-worn and dash camera video, 911 calls and recorded interviews — with the original preserved and every step logged. For attorneys, agencies, and families across the U.S. and Canada.
Original preserved · Every step documented
Confidential · Free initial consultation for counsel · Conflicts checked first
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What we work on
Video, audio, and images — the record that already exists.
Audio
- 911 calls and dispatch recordings
- Recorded interviews, voicemails, and jail calls
- Audio tracks from body-worn and phone video
- Noise reduction and speech clarification
- Clean playback versions for a courtroom
Images
- Scene and evidence photographs
- Stills pulled from video
- Exposure, color, and detail recovery
- Side-by-side comparisons with the original
- Exhibit-ready prints and boards
Not on this list: data extraction or recovery from phones, computers, or drives. If that is what your case needs, we'll tell you so on the first call.
Honest enhancement
Enhancement can't add what wasn't recorded. It can recover what was.
Most recordings hold more than a first viewing shows. A dark frame has detail in it. A noisy call has speech under the hiss. Careful work brings that out.
What it can't do is invent. An enhancement that goes past what the camera captured is the one that falls apart under cross-examination — and takes the rest of your evidence with it. We tell you where that line is before you spend anything, and we stay on the right side of it.
What it can do
- Brighten a dark frame and recover detail the camera captured
- Reduce noise so speech already on the recording is easier to hear
- Stabilize shaky footage and isolate the frames that matter
- Put several cameras on one timeline so events line up
- Show the original and the enhanced version side by side
What it can't
- Create detail the camera never recorded
- Turn a few pixels into a readable plate or face
- Recover words that were never picked up by the microphone
- Tell you what you hope the recording shows
For counsel
The recording, made something a jury can follow.
We work for plaintiffs and defendants, and in criminal matters for prosecution and defense. We report what the recording shows — not what either side hopes it shows.
Use of force and civil rights matters
Body-worn, dash, and bystander video documented, enhanced, and synchronized so the sequence of events can be followed frame by frame.
Civil litigation supportCriminal defense and prosecution
Surveillance and phone video, recorded calls, and interviews — restored and documented, with the original alongside every enhanced version.
Legal & litigation supportExhibits a jury can follow
Clean playback versions, annotated stills, and side-by-side comparisons, built in the form your trial presentation needs.
Why IRIS
The footage is evidence. So are the questions it has to answer.
A media lab can make a recording clearer. Knowing which three seconds of it the case turns on is a different skill — and it is the one our investigators spent their careers on.
At IRIS the media work sits inside a team of retired major crimes detectives, a forensic DNA expert, and a geographic profiler. When a matter needs more than the recording, the rest of the bench is already at the table.
How an engagement runs
Four steps, and you know what the recording holds.
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Conflicts check, then a scope call
We clear conflicts first. Then a short call: what the recording is, what you need to see or hear, and when you need it.
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The original, preserved
Send the native files — the original export, not a screen recording or a re-upload. We work on copies, and the original is never altered.
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Enhancement, every step logged
Each adjustment is recorded so the work can be explained and repeated. If the recording can't give you what you need, we tell you then.
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What you receive
The enhanced files beside the originals, a written account of what was done, and any exhibits the matter calls for.
Agencies & families
A recording no one has looked at closely? Start there.
The same work and the same standards, for the agency that holds the case or the family still waiting on it.
For law enforcement
Footage and audio, when the backlog is long.
Our team spent their careers inside agencies. We take on video, audio, and image work for active and cold cases — including recordings that couldn't be worked with the tools available when they were collected. The agency keeps the case and the credit.
- Surveillance and CCTV enhancement
- 911 and recorded-call clarification
- Cold case media re-examined with current tools
- Documentation for the case file
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For families
A video or a recording in your loved one's case.
A doorbell camera, a phone video, a voicemail. Sometimes the record that matters already exists and no one has looked at it closely. We can tell you honestly what it can show — and help get it in front of the people who can act on it.
- Doorbell and phone video
- Voicemails and recorded calls
- Photographs from the scene or the days before
- Working with the agency that holds the case
Confidential and no obligation
Before you send anything
The questions we're asked first.
Can you make a blurry license plate or face readable?
Only if the information is in the recording. Enhancement recovers detail the camera actually captured; it cannot create detail from a handful of pixels, whatever television suggests. We'll look at the footage and tell you honestly what it can and can't show before you spend anything on it.
What should we send you?
The original, native files — the export straight from the system that recorded them, with any metadata intact. A phone recording of a screen, or a clip re-uploaded through social media, loses detail we can't get back. If you only have a copy, send it anyway and tell us where the original is.
Do you alter the original?
No. We work on copies. The original is preserved, every step of the enhancement is logged, and you receive the enhanced version alongside the original so anyone can compare them.
Will the enhanced version be admissible?
Admissibility is the court's decision, not ours, and we won't promise it. What we can do is make the work transparent: the original preserved, the steps documented, and the enhanced version presented beside the original so the court can see exactly what was done.
Will your specialist testify about the enhancement?
Tell us on the first call if you expect to need testimony on the media work itself. We'll tell you plainly whether that part of the matter is a fit for us before you retain anyone — we would rather say so up front than have it come up at a deposition.
Do you do phone or computer forensics?
No. We work with video, audio, and photographs — not data extraction or recovery from phones, computers, or drives. If that is what your case needs, we'll tell you so on the first call.
Do you work for the defense, the prosecution, or both?
Both, and for plaintiffs and defendants in civil matters. IRIS also trains and supports law enforcement agencies. We report what the recording shows, not what either side hopes it shows.
How is the work billed, and where do you work?
Each engagement is scoped individually, and you get the scope in writing before work starts. For counsel, the initial consultation is free. Most media work is done on files you send us, so we take matters throughout the United States and Canada.
Confidential Media Review
Tell us about the recording and what it has to show.
What it is, how it was recorded, and what you need to see or hear. We'll clear conflicts, then tell you honestly what the recording can give you — and what it can't.
- Read by an investigator Your inquiry goes to the people who would work the case, not to a sales desk.
- Conflicts checked, then confidential We clear conflicts before we look at anything, and engagements under non-disclosure are never discussed.