department of justice, and a contract instructor at the fbi academy in quantico. we are here to get an answer. has this surveillance footage been altered? those files are not original files. they re not something that an investigator should rely on for the truth of the video. reporter: cnn hired fredericks company, forensic video solutions, to analyze the surveillance video. the first thing that the attorneys and the family were concerned about, they didn t see a time stamp, but you found one. yes. reporter: how? the timestamp is in another stream of video, so you have to be able to access it using special codex. so you have to know where to find it. but it s there. once the timestamp is located, you can then begin to make sense of it and begin to track people. reporter: by piecing together the time codes, fredericks team found 18 minutes of surveillance showing kendrick on january 10th, starting at 7:31 a.m. as he entered school, ending the last time he was seen alive, a
the surveillance video. the first thing the attorneys and the family were concerned about, they didn t see a time stamp, and you found one. yes. reporter: how? well, the time stamp is in another stream of video. so you have to be able to access it using special codex. you have to pretty much know where to find it, but it s there. once the time stamp is located you can then begin to make sense of it and begin to track people. reporter: by piecing together the time codes, frederick s team found more than 18 minutes of surveillance showing kendrick on january 10th starting at 7:30 a.m. as he entered school, ending the last time he was seen alive, at 1:09 p.m. in the gym. the motion video we re looking at here and the fact that we skip time periods when there s no motion is very common. i m not really that concerned about it. reporter: what about the blurred image? the only angle that shows the corner where kendrick johnson was found dead? the johnsons and their
video. the first thing the attorneys and the family were concerned about, the didn t see a time stamp but you found one. yes. how? the time stamp is in another stream of video. so you have to be able to access it using special codex. you have to know where to find it but it s there. once the time stamp is located you can then begin to make sense of it and begin to track people. by piecing together the time codes, frederik s team found more than 18 minutes of surveillance showing kendrick on january 10th, starting at 7:31 a.m. as he entered school, ending the last time he was seen alive, at 1:09 p.m. in the gym. the motion video we re looking at here, and the fact be that we skip time periods when there s no motion is very common. so i m not really concerned about that part of it but what about the blurred image, the only angle that shows the corner where kendrick johnson was found dead? the johnsons and their attorneys believe that this was intentionally blurred to hide