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Interview Room Recording

“We have conducted almost two hundred flawless interviews utilizing the system. It is extremely simple to use, with one-button recording. In fact, several local police departments have asked us to utilize our system to assist them in their criminal investigations.”  

Lt. Todd Trupp, Berks County DA's Office, Pennsylvania 

For any law enforcement agency or child advocacy center seeking a simple yet complete system to record interviews, Interview Room has been designed with your reality in mind. We’ve chiseled every feature down to its simplest functionality–stream, save and share footage, with a web interface that lets you view interviews right from your desk.
  • A snap to operate
  • Crisp, clear audio
  • Simplicity defined
  • Built-in fail-safes guarantee integrity

Absolute and Accurate Audio

  • Simple, one-touch recording
  • Online access
  • Live stream viewing
  • Fast downloads
  • In-room light indicates recording status
  • Live remote view in web browser
  • Robust security
  • Chain-of-evidence tracking
  • Export to DVD, USB, or external hard drive
  • Records up to 1000 hours

Built-In Failsafes

  • Monitoring station displays exactly what is being recorded.
  • Live view instantly shows any potential hardware issues during the interview.
  • In-room light indicates recording status so the interviewer knows it's being recorded.
  • Continuous hard-drive backup with Raid 1 disc-drive technology.
  • Records up to 1000 hours. Archive of all interviews are held on the system. If a DVD disc is scratched or otherwise damaged, just go to the system console and burn another one.
  • View interviews while burning DVDs.

Powerful, Easy-to-Use Software Simplifies Your Court Date 

Interview recordings are only as good as the output needed for the justice
system. Not only was the Interviewer created from the ground up with the
best audio capturing technology, we also designed the software for users
to easily export the interview so it will hold up in court. Software includes:
  • User accounts.
  • Audit trail functionality.
  • Visible video watermarks.
  • Authentication codes.
  • Account management tools.
  • With the Interviewer software users can:
  • Bookmark specific points in an interview for later reference.
  • Export to DVD or USB thumb drive, no proprietary software needed for playback​.
  • Pause and seek in an active recording just like a TV DVR.
  • Play back or burn recordings while recording an interview.
  • Archive interviews with case info and bookmarks.​
  • Easily upload interviews to major video evidence management and case management systems
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Planning Your Interview Room

Setting up your interview room is one of the key aspects for securing a good interview. Where will you place the cameras, microphones, and other components for recording?  See below for an example of a room layout and check out our 'Getting the Most Out of Your Interview Room' guide.
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1. The microphones are close to the conversation, at head level for a seated adult on either side of the subject

2. The recording indicator light at shoulder height behind the subject, so the interviewer can see it at all times during the interview and know that the recorder is recording

3. The recording start button is just outside the door to the room

4. The close-up camera is at shoulder height directly across from the subject’s face

5. The wide-angle camera on the ceiling faces back toward the door from across the room

Technical Specifications

Recording:
  • Recording capacity: Almost 1000 hours
  • Video/audio quality: Full-frame-rate video recording synchronized with high-quality audio recording
  • DVD video format: MPEG-2 1.2 Mbps (3h per DVD) to 3.3 Mbps (2h video per DVD)
  • DVD audio format: LPCM 16-bit 48KhZ
  • Export video and audio of interviews to DVR-MS format
  • Export interview audio to WAV and WMA file formats
  • Supported video standards: NTSC

 Security:
User accounts to protect against unauthorized access.  Each interview is logged and tagged with an owner allowing users with administrator access to easily analyze and verify the chain of evidence.

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 Cameras:
Primary suspect-view camera and room-overview cameras: Dome cameras with vari-focal lens for adjustment of zoom and three-axes adjustment for setting custom position of the camera angle. High-resolution color camera with 700 lines at 0.0003 lux.


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 Concealed Camera Option:
Primary suspect-view camera and room-overview cameras: Dome cameras with vari-focal lens for adjustment of zoom and three-axes adjustment for setting custom position of the camera angle. High-resolution color camera with 700 lines at 0.0003 lux.

Concealed suspect-view camera: Covert thermostat with high-resolution hidden camera. High-resolution color camera with 700 lines of resolution at 0.0001 lux low-light rating and 3.6mm focal length with 90 degrees maximum field of view.



 Network Viewing:
Remote monitoring of live interviews via web browser from any PC on your local network.

​Maximum simultaneous viewers per room: Seven
Streaming bandwidth: 800 K bits/second


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 Audio:
Microphones: Two microphones wall-mount microphones, resembling light switches, provide stereo, low-impedance, balanced audio for clear audio recording without hum pickup or high-frequency loss even for long cable runs.


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 One Touch Operation and Monitoring:
The system features two sets of indicator lights, one set in the interview room and one set outside the room.  The In-room indicator light before the recording is started (left) and while a recording is in progress (right).

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Recordings can not be stopped using the push button on the indicator light.  The push button is used to start a recording.  In order to stop a recording, you must click the Recording Stop button in the Interviewer software program.


Recorder:
  • Operating system: Windows 10 Professional 64-bit DSP
  • Video storage hard drive array: RAID 1 (mirrored) fault-tolerant array of two 3TB 3.5 SATA 6G 7200 drives, hot swappable, seen by system as a single 3TB drive
  • Optical: DVD-RW Dual Layer SATA Drive
  • Audio capture: Balanced and unbalanced
  • Primary video capture: Composite NTSC
  • Picture-in-picture video capture: Composite NTSC
  • Audio output: Integrated High-Definition Audio
  • Speakers: Stereo Sound Bar
  • Headphones: Full-ear
  • Display: 22" flat panel display (other options available)
  • USB Keyboard and USB Optical Mouse
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Email: tech-support@signalscape.com
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