teranex corporation. Cross-frame video enhancement. IIRC, the original sat-imagery enhancement guys.

There is a software package for guys who want to take their very own image of Jupiter for example, with their 12-16" motorized telescope. You can then take 1000's of images of Jupiter and then hammer them into one image. It's very much like what JA uses to get the waterfall plots for the speakers, except it is in the world of digital video data., IIRC, every time you double the number of frames, your SN improves..by..how many db, guys?

What I'm saying is that most of the software for the videos already out there, some it if is free. But the teranex packages originally would be as costly as your life (original sat photos from way back, ie very secret stuff) but you can now buy on a chip for a few $ hundred, as part of scaler and interpolation type set up.

As for sound, I know it's out there, but very likely quite expensive. We are talking about harmonic analysis and associated filtering for the voice isolation.

I have feeling that if you go looking ,such software for various sound cards might be broadly available. Originally, a good parametric EQ did the job and might suffice for your needs. You need the ability to adjust the Q (frequency center and it's width - or Q) on the parametric. Then you have to find the overall frequency balance of the noise..and remove or pull down that. same same. You can also gate the noise out via averaging and having a software program pull down everything in the noise frequency range and also compress it's dynamics. Lots of things can be done.

In a word- no. It's why criminals are still so hard to catch and DNA testing is slow, fallible etc. If we had a tenth of what those guys, and what they have on 24, etc, the world would be crime and terrorist free. Of course the baddies on those shows usually have a lot more high-tech kit than they ever have in reality too!

All the enhancement stuff you see is just clear images fuzzed and grained up and then reverse rendered for our enjoyment. Sure- some stuff does exist out there but not for a local police dept. and it doesn't happen in the seconds you see on TV.

What I love is how fast and smooth the computers are. I watched an advance screener of the first four hours of the new '24' and there are several scenes where computers have lots of windows open, all of them translucent and perfect, and when they need to zoom in on a cabbie badge on a dashboard, the Macbook Pro does it effortlessly and instantly.

s.

All movie/TV spy computers have snazzy custom UIs that can copy a 500GB drive in about 45 seconds and access anyone on the planet with a keystroke as well a hack your garage door opener.

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Is there a CSI like audio program that could separate out the conversations I want from the music and background noise that makes the thing a sonic mess??

Yep, there sure is. The number one program for this sort of thing in the world.

http://www.cedar-audio.com/

http://www.cedaraudio.com/products/cambridge/forensic.html

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Alas, it looks like all the software works on their hardware, not my vista laptop...Still fascinating.

nope...there is a native/non hardware version you can use with any DAW....