Investigate
Clarifications
You can now stabilize shaky video directly in Axon Evidence, without downloading the file or using a separate application. Stabilization is the first filter available in Clarifications.
When you'd use it
Body-worn camera footage of an officer running down an alley bounces so much it's hard to tell what's in front of them. Stabilization smooths that motion so you can follow the action, identify what's in frame, and present the footage clearly to a reviewer, a jury, or a courtroom.
Before you start
Clarifications requires Axon Investigate with Third-Party Video Support (SKU 11642) on your agency's contract, with the feature enabled. Your agency administrator must also allow the Clarification permission under Admin > Roles and Permissions > Investigate Cloud.
Create a clarification
- Open a video in Axon Evidence and select the Investigate icon in the side panel.
- Select Create Clarification.
- Edit the title if you'd like. - Clarification is appended automatically.
- Under Stabilization, select Enable stabilization and choose a strength: Light — smooths small camera shake while keeping the original framing as close to intact as possible. Medium (default) — balanced smoothing for most body-worn and handheld footage. Strong — smooths heavy movement, with more shifting and cropping of the frame.
- Optionally expand Advanced to adjust: Crop edges — on by default. Cropping removes the black borders and warping that appear at the frame edges during stabilization, but reduces the visible area. Turn it off to keep the full frame if detail near the edges matters to your review. Interpolation — Bilinear (default) produces the smoothest result and is appropriate for review, narrative, and presentation. Nearest Neighbor preserves original pixel values without blending, which examiners may prefer when the output will feed downstream analysis such as object or subject identification.
- Select Create.
What you get
The clarification runs and creates a new piece of derivative evidence, with the original title plus - Clarification. It appears in the Related tab and on the evidence display page. Your original evidence is unchanged.
Every stabilization setting you select is recorded in the evidence audit trail, so the result can be documented and reproduced.
Coming soon
This section provides advanced notice about upcoming features.
Investigate
More video options in the Investigate panel
Brightness/Contrast, Crop, Rotate, and Lens Distortion Correction options will soon be available in the Investigate panel.
Video stitching moves to a side panel
Stitching is moving out Review mode and into its own side panel, where you select multiple pieces of evidence and build the stitch in one place. The panel lets you order the clips, add a title screen and a disclaimer, insert frames between clips, and rename the stitched output. Stitching will be disabled by default, so administrators should plan to grant the **Stitching** permission before the release planned for September.
