New Video Preview Utility to Help With Forensics Analysis
Earlier this week I walked into a friend’s office and he had just finished examining an iPhone using Cellebrite. The good news is that the acquisition went flawlessly. The bad news was that the device contained over 200 videos that he now needed to preview to see if any were relevant to his interests. As phones grow larger and larger (I have my 128GB iPhone sitting next to me as I type this) this is only going to become a bigger issue so I wanted to write a python script to try to help in situations like these. The Video Preview Utility (for lack of a better name) utilizes the “Video Thumbnails Maker” tool to generate a sheet of evenly space thumbnail preview images for all video files in a directory. It copies all of those images to a subdirectory, creates an HTML file with all of the preview images and generates a log of all videos successfully processed and any videos where an error occurred. It’s a heck of a lot quicker to scroll down a HTML page looking for anything of interest th