VisualSoft

VisualDVR: Built for the Mission. Designed for the Operator.

Key Features

• Multi-Channel SD and HD Acquisition: Flexible recording configurations supporting 1, 2, or 4 channels of simultaneous Standard Definition (SD) and High Definition (HD) video (up to 1080p / 60fps) via HD-SDI or IP inputs.
• Legacy Support: Fully compatible with composite analogue sources when used in conjunction with external analogue-to-SDI converters.
• Proactive System Alerting: Built-in monitoring tools that notify operators of configuration errors or hardware limitations to ensure continuous, successful recording.
• Dynamic Video Overlay: Utilise the integrated VisualOverlay tool to apply logos and customisable text driven by external data sources directly onto the video feed.
• Offshore-Proven Reliability: Engineered for continuous 24/7 operation, providing a stable software environment designed to meet the rigours of professional subsea campaigns.
• Intuitive Dashboard: A modern, streamlined interface (Version 11) that reduces the technical learning curve and allows for rapid setup of recording profiles and storage paths.
• Efficient Video Compression: Uses H.264 (AVC) and H.265 (HEVC) encoding to maintain high visual quality while optimising storage space and file transfer speeds.
• Automated Archiving & Delivery: Streamline the end-of-dive process with automated copying to multiple drives, ensuring project data is ready for immediate client handover on the FET VisualSoft platform.
• Flexible Network Streaming: Distribute live video with overlays across the vessel’s network, allowing clients and supervisors to monitor operations from any station via the VisualSoft Network Player.

For more information: Download the User Manual

VisualOverlay: Dynamic Video Annotation Made Simple

VisualOverlay is the dedicated video annotation engine within VisualDVR designed to transform raw subsea footage into a data-rich visual record for final project deliverables. It serves as a vital bridge between visual media and survey data, allowing for the precise placement of project-critical information directly onto the recorded video. By marrying video with live data streams, VisualOverlay ensures that every second of footage is contextually anchored, providing an immediate and legible reference for clients and engineers during post-dive analysis and integrity reviews.

The software is engineered for maximum flexibility and ease of setup, utilising a simple drag-and-drop interface to configure the layout of text and logos. It is capable of ingesting data via serial port or UDP network communications, allowing you to drive on-screen text directly from external navigation or sensor sources. Provided as a standard, inclusive feature with every VisualDVR system, VisualOverlay provides a professional, stable platform for subsea video annotation that meets the highest industry standards for inspection and survey reporting.

VisualOverlay Key Features

• Inclusive Software: Provided free of charge with all VisualDVR systems, ensuring every recording is deliverable-ready from day one.
• Dynamic Data Integration: Driven by external sources, the system supports multiple serial or network inputs (UDP) to display live data as customisable on-screen text.
• Drag-and-Drop Configuration: An intuitive interface allows operators to easily design, move, and scale overlay elements to suit specific project requirements.
• Professional Branding: Seamlessly apply transparent contractor or client logos directly to the video feed for a polished final deliverable.
• Flexible Formatting: Full support for Windows fonts, styles, and colours, ensuring that all data is displayed in a practical and highly legible format.
• Multi-Channel Support: Capable of managing and displaying unique overlays across multiple video channels simultaneously when integrated with VisualDVR.
• Network Distribution: Stream overlay-enhanced video across the vessel network via IP allowing multiple stations to monitor the data-rich feed as it is recorded.
• Synchronised Visual Records: Ensures that all external data strings are permanently burned into the video record, providing a robust and unalterable audit trail for subsea assets.

For more information: Download the User Manual.

VisualEventLogger

VisualEventLogger is a standard component of the VisualDVR, designed to simplify the capture of “incidents” or “observations” during operations. Whether running directly on the VisualDVR workstation or a networked computer, it provides a highly efficient workflow tailored to specific project requirements.

Key Features

• Flexible Deployment: Run the application locally on your VisualDVR system or remotely on a separate PC to suit your workspace layout.
• Customisable Configurations: Choose from bespoke configurations based on specific end-client needs or utilize our “standard” templates for general requirements.
• Tablet-Optimised Interface: A user-friendly tablet mode allows for rapid, “one-tap” logging of high-frequency events.
• Seamless Integration: All logged events are stored directly within the VisualSoft data structure.
• Post-Processing Ready: Events can be effortlessly added, removed, or modified using VisualEdit Eventing during the reporting phase.

VisualSoft Network Player

The VisualSoft Network Player is a dedicated utility designed to enhance situational awareness across a network during subsea survey and ROV operations.

Key functionalities include:

• Display Video Streams: Streams coming from VisualDVR can be viewed within the VisualSoft Network Player including overlay added by VisualDVR.
• Auto-Detection: The Network Player is designed to automatically detect active streams on the network, simplifying the connection process for remote viewers.
• Multi-Window Display: Users can view up to four video windows simultaneously on a single workstation, matching the multi-channel recording capability of the hardware.

This player is provided as a complimentary tool for users with supported licenses to facilitate broader access to real-time subsea footage.

Visual3D-Inspector: Spatial Context for Subsea Structures

Visual3D-Inspector is a specialised 3D structure inspection module within the VisualSoft suite, designed to simplify the planning, execution, and review of complex subsea asset inspections. By importing 3D CAD models of structures—such as jackets, manifolds, or wellheads—into a dynamic 3D viewer, the software provides a spatial framework for managing inspection data. This approach allows recording and eventing to be directly referenced to specific structural components, ensuring that every observation is precisely located within the 3D model rather than just appearing as a timestamp in a linear log.

The module is engineered to bridge the gap between pre-dive planning and final reporting. It allows engineers to define a clear work scope sequence, which is then visualised in 3D to help optimise ROV transit and inspection time. As a standard component included with VisualDVR, Visual3D-Inspector provides an intuitive interface for pilots and inspectors to track progress in real-time, link anomalies to exact structural coordinates, and ultimately accelerate the generation of component-based reports.

 

Visual3D-Inspector Key Features

• CAD Model Integration:Easily import 3D CAD export files to serve as the visual foundation for project planning and real-time inspection monitoring.
• Component-Based Data Linking:Reference video recordings and inspection events directly to individual components within the 3D structure model.
• Work Scope Planning:Define and sequence inspection tasks pre-dive, providing a graphical preview that helps optimise ROV movements and operational efficiency.
• Live Progress Tracking:Monitor inspection status in real-time with colour-coded structural elements that indicate completed tasks and outstanding work areas.
• Customisable Anomaly Logging:Record observations and events with direct links to structural components, simplifying the identification and review of specific asset locations.
• Seamless Suite Integration:Fully integrated with VisualDVR for synchronised video control and VisualEdit for rapid condition assessment.
• Visualised Sequence Management: Clearly identify the inspection path and remaining scope, reducing the risk of missed components during complex structural dives.

For more information download the Brochure or User Manual or arrange a demonstration by contacting VisualSoft.

VisualArchive: Eliminating Manual File Management in Complex Workflows

VisualArchive is the automated data management and security module within the VisualSoft suite, designed to handle the critical movement and protection of large-scale subsea video and survey data. As video recording demands significant storage and rapid access, VisualArchive provides a background-level safety net, ensuring that all mission-critical files are systematically replicated from the primary logging drive to central network storage. By automating this redundancy, it eliminates the risks of manual file management and ensures that raw data is securely moved to inspection and processing teams the moment it is captured.

The module is engineered to facilitate a seamless offshore workflow, running silently alongside VisualDVR to manage the data lifecycle without operator intervention. Once the data reaches the central network location, inspection engineers and data processors can immediately begin the task of cleaning, analysing, and quality-controlling the data. This automated pipeline allows for the efficient creation of processed deliverables and high-quality reporting, ensuring that the transition from the initial logging drive to final, QC-checked data is both fast and secure.

VisualArchive Key Features

• Automated Data Replication:Automatically transfers video and data files to central network storage in the background as they are recorded, ensuring immediate availability for the processing team.
• Background Operation:Operates silently without impacting the performance of the VisualDVR acquisition system, maintaining operational uptime.
• Real-Time Data Verification:Actively monitors transfer status and file integrity to ensure that the archived data perfectly matches the primary record on the logging drive.
• Centralised Network Management:Simplifies the organisation of project data by directing different file types to specific, user-defined network paths.
• Secure Redundancy:Provides peace of mind by maintaining multiple copies of mission-critical media across different storage environments.
• Space Management:Offers clear visibility of storage capacity across connected network locations to prevent recording interruptions.
• Suite Integration:Fully synchronised with the VisualSoft software suite, providing a unified approach to data capture, security, and processing.

Download the User Manual.

VisualData Logger: Eliminating Manual File Management in Complex Workflows

VisualData Logger is the dedicated sensor acquisition and synchronisation module within the VisualSoft suite, engineered to capture and secure real-time data during subsea operations. It acts as the central digital record-keeper for a wide array of mission-critical inputs, ensuring that data from ROV positioning and attitude sensors—including GNSS, Gyro, and Depth—are logged in perfect alignment with your video footage. This synchronisation is the foundation for accurate post-dive review, allowing engineers to access precise sensor readings at any specific moment in the recorded video through VisualReview.

The module is designed for operational confidence, providing clear, functional displays of incoming data strings from diverse sources, including Multibeam Echo Sounders (MBES), mechanical profilers, and pipe trackers. Beyond simple logging, the software acts as a real-time quality control tool; it proactively monitors all input streams and alerts the operator with alarm messages if a sensor signal is lost or if data values remain static. By automating the capture process and providing these essential health checks, VisualData Logger minimises the risk of data gaps and ensures a verified, time-stamped dataset is ready for the inspection and reporting pipeline.

VisualData Logger Key Features

• Synchronised Acquisition: Automatically links data logging with VisualDVR to create a perfectly aligned, time-stamped record of all sensor inputs.
• Comprehensive Sensor Support: Capable of logging data from ROV attitude and positioning sensors as well as specialised instrumentation like MBES, mechanical profilers, and pipe trackers.
• Proactive Signal Monitoring: Active system health checks provide instant alarm notifications if input streams are interrupted or if data values become frozen.
• Flexible Sensor Interfacing: Supports reliable data ingestion via RS232 serial or network UDP protocols to integrate with existing vessel and ROV infrastructure.
• Configurable Data Decoder: Includes a straightforward, user-programmable decoder to interpret any standard ASCII data string to suit specific project needs.
• Functional Data Displays: Features clear text readouts and basic graphical trends for real-time monitoring of sensor values during the dive.
• Automated Data Management: Seamlessly integrates with VisualArchive to handle the background backup and transfer of logged files to central network storage.

VisualEdit: Precision Processing. Professional Reports.

VisualEdit is the powerful post-processing and reporting engine of the VisualSoft suite, designed to transform raw subsea recordings into high-quality, QC-checked inspection deliverables. By providing a unified environment to review video alongside synchronised sensor data, VisualEdit allows engineers to perform detailed offline analysis and condition assessments. As a professional data management solution, the VisualEdit range enables the seamless import and export of data to and from third-party applications and databases—making it the essential choice for integrated pipeline, cable, and structural integrity projects.

Across all editions, VisualEdit maintains a focus on data integrity and user efficiency, enabling the rapid identification and logging of subsea anomalies. The software facilitates the “cleaning” of survey data and the fine-tuning of inspection events, ensuring that the final data package is accurate, auditable, and ready for client delivery. Whether you are performing a simple dive review or a comprehensive integrity survey, the VisualEdit range provides the professional tools necessary to bridge the gap between offshore acquisition and professional onshore reporting.

Three Editions of VisualEdit

• VisualEdit:The essential viewer and review tool. This edition provides a stable platform for inspection review and data verification, featuring robust data import and export capabilities.
• VisualEdit Eventing:Designed for active data entry, this edition enables users to add, edit, and manage inspection “events” or anomalies during the post-processing phase, making it ideal for creating detailed event logs.
• VisualEdit Professional:The flagship edition for comprehensive reporting. It includes the full suite of data processing and analysis tools required for complex pipeline, cable, and structural integrity projects, providing the capability to generate final, data-rich client reports and interface with external GIS or integrity databases.

Key Features

• Third-Party Data Integration:Move data effortlessly between the VisualSoft environment and external applications or databases for advanced analysis and reporting.
• Synchronised Video & Data Review:Simultaneously play back video channels in perfect alignment with logged sensor data for a complete operational picture of pipeline and cable corridors.
• Scalable Editions:Choose between VisualEdit, VisualEdit Eventing, and VisualEdit Professional to match the specific processing requirements of your project.
• Rapid Event Management:Easily create, modify, and categorise inspection events with customisable picklists to ensure consistency across structural and linear surveys.
• Data Cleaning & Smoothing:Access professional tools to filter and correct sensor data, ensuring the final survey record is accurate and free of noise.
• Integrated Reporting (Professional):Generate professional, formatted inspection reports directly from the VisualEdit Professional software, including comprehensive event data.
• Quality Control (QC) Tools:Specifically designed for the data processor to verify the integrity of raw offshore logs and refine them into high-quality, deliverable-ready data.

Download the User Manual.

VisualReview: The Universal Viewer for Your VisualSoft Project Data

VisualReview is the accessible playback and viewing application within the VisualSoft suite, designed to provide clients and stakeholders with a straightforward way to examine recorded subsea data. It allows users to view the video captured by VisualDVR alongside synchronised sensor data and overlay information without the need for a licensed application. By providing a clear, time-aligned view of the subsea environment, VisualReview ensures that the results of pipeline, cable, and structural inspections are easily shared and understood by engineers and project managers onshore.

The software is provided as a free-of-charge component, ensuring that once a project is delivered, the end-user has the necessary tools to navigate the data immediately. It maintains the suite’s core commitment to synchronisation, allowing the user to jump to specific events or timestamps and see exactly what the sensors were recording at that moment. This makes it an ideal tool for project reviews, internal presentations, or as a dedicated viewer for offshore personnel who need to reference previous dive data without the complexity of a processing environment.

VisualReview Key Features

• Free-to-Use Playback: Provided as a free viewer, ensuring that clients and third parties can always access and review VisualSoft project deliverables.
• Synchronised Video & Data: View multiple video channels in perfect alignment with logged sensor data (position, depth, and attitude) for complete context.
• Intuitive Navigation: Navigate dive recordings via Kilometre Point (KP), timestamps, or specific inspection events to jump directly to areas of interest.
• Asset-Specific Review: Tailored to display the data essential for the review of pipeline, cable, and structural subsea assets.
• Snapshot Capability: Quickly capture high-quality still images from the video record for use in external memos or presentations.
• Modern Compatibility: Designed for seamless deployment on Windows 10 and Windows 11, allowing for the review of project data on standard modern workstations.
• Integrated Suite Support: Seamlessly opens data packages generated by VisualDVR and VisualEdit, maintaining the integrity of the original offshore record.

For more information: Download the User Manual.

GIS and Charting

VisualGIS

VisualGIS is an ArcGIS extension that integrates the GIS environment with VisualSoft data.

VisualGIS is a combined development between Wish Software and VisualSoft – the market leader in Subsea Digital Video products.

VisualGIS is a complete solution for viewing integrated survey data and digital video from subsea inspection surveys. Integrating GIS and the VisualSoft digital video system, VisualGIS allows the user instant accessibility to all survey datasets via an intuitive user interface.

VisualGIS provides a persistent bi-directional link between the GIS and survey data meaning that the current location in the GIS and the data displayed in the survey and video windows are always synchronised.

For example, select a pipeline in the GIS and VisualGIS will load the appropriate survey. Choose an event in the VisualGIS Event Table window and all the survey data and video windows as well as the current cursor location in the GIS will be updated appropriately.

For more information visit http://www.wishsoftware.com

AutoChart is an AutoCAD, BricsCAD and ArcView extension that automates the production of North-Up and alignment sheets for both Hydrographic and Terrestrial data sets.

AutoChart helps achieve compressed delivery schedules by creating fully georeferenced multi-panelled charts in a fraction of the time taken using manual drafting techniques.

HydroGIS is an ArcGIS extension that imports survey data into the GIS environment.

HydroGIS enables the creation of complex Geodatabases or shape files via a simple software interface for a wide range of survey data formats.

Specifically designed for hydrographic survey data types; HydroGIS eliminates the confusion and complexity of creating GIS final deliverables.

Sales Enquiries

• Tel: +44 (0)1224 744 000
• Email: [email protected]

VisualSoft Support

At VisualSoft we recognise that round the clock Technical Support is a vital ingredient in provision of a globally used software suite. This is why VisualSoft provide an out of hours telephone and email support service for clients with a valid support contract.

This number operates from 17:00 until 08:30 UK time each night Monday to Thursday, and all through the weekend from 17:00 Friday evening until 08:30 Monday morning. The system will connect you to an on-call support operator for either hardware or software support.

During all other times our office will be staffed with our in-house experts ready to take your call and assist with any technical difficulties you happen to encounter whilst installing or operating our products.

Support Website

The VisualSoft support website is a valuable resource for customers wishing to download the latest software, manuals, drivers, installation guides, brochures and much more.

This website also contains a valuable knowledgebase and a trouble-shooter section as well as the latest news on recent and forthcoming software releases.

VisualSoft Support Website

Visit the support website to see recent news and details of software changes, search for downloads, find information about training courses, find answers to FAQs, or to download User Manuals and Guides.

Receive Support by Telephone

Aberdeen, UK during office hours: +44 1224 744000. Out of hours (24/7): +44 1224 363999

Receive Support by Email:

[email protected] Monitored from approximately 0630 to 2200 (UK time) Mon-Fri, 0800 to 2200 Sat-Sun.

Sales Enquiries

• Tel: +44 (0)1224 744 000

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VisualSoft Training

VisualSoft offer comprehensive and highly flexible training options to our clients. Companies or individual users can select from a range of Training Modules, to build a course that specifically suits their needs. VisualSoft can also offer a selection of dates, to help with course planning and scheduling.

Standard Courses

VisualSoft recommends the following standard courses, which are usually offered at intervals throughout the year.

• 3-day for Inspectors / Surveyors / ROV crew (Modules: 1-10). Available In Person and online.
• 5-Day Course for 3.4u, Inspectors, ROV Crew, & Surveyors (Modules: 1-12). Available In Person Only.
• 5-Day Course for experienced Survey Data Processors (Modules: 1-13). Available In Person Only.

Applying for a Course

To apply for any of the proposed course dates shown below, or for more information please download a Training Request form by clicking here, and send the completed form to: [email protected]. If the date you want is not shown below, please use the form to indicate your preferred month of training and we will do our best to assist.

Planned Course Dates

Course dates may change and are subject to demand. Please click here for details of planned course dates.

Joining a Course

You can download joining instructions with our address, a map and details of local accommodation by clicking here.

Modular or Customised Courses

We can offer customised courses for client companies who want to tailor a course for their own personnel. Listed below are the 13 Training Modules from which different courses may be structured and tailored to suit the specific needs of the new VisualSoft User. The VisualSoft Training Team are available to offer help and advice in selecting suitable Modules to build your course.

1. Course Introduction (All Courses)
2. Use & Awareness of VisualDVR (All Courses)
3. Use & Awareness of VisualOverlay (All Courses)
4. Use of VisualDataLogger (All Courses)
5. Use of Visual3D-Inspector (All Courses)
6. Event Configuration and Logging (All Courses)
7. Video Review and Data Display (All Courses)
8. Event Editing and QC (All Courses)
9. Reporting (All Courses)
10. Use of VisualArchive (All Courses)
11. Basic Data Processing (5-day for Inspectors / Surveyors / ROV crew)
12. Profile Processing (5-day for Inspectors / Surveyors / ROV crew)
13. Advanced Data Processing (5-day for experienced Data Processors)

Sales Enquiries

• Tel: +44 (0)1224 744 000
• Email: [email protected]