Legal Depositions

Jason Ramsey

Jason Ramsey

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I have a few questions about filming legal depositions and using the HVX, if that's ok:

Regarding what to capture to and masters:
Would it be acceptable to capture with a laptop and use the laptop as a monitor? Also, along these same lines could it be considered acceptable to capture (via my laptop) to an eSATA 2 drive enclosure that is a raid 1 for redundancy? That way I would be making two copies at the same time. I could buy cheap HDD's for each deposition and even deliver them as masters if necessary (if it was necessary that I had no remaining copy of the deposition)

Also, most people talk about capturing to tape and vhs at the same time. What about capturing to the setup mentioned above, as well as a tabletop "on-the-fly" DVD burner.

Would one recommend doing one or both of these above options in case something goes wrong with one or the other? Are these "newer" technologies being accepted in this line of work?

I had also considered using the cineporter to record to, or recording to tape and laptop. Or recording to tape and dvd, if it were necessary to record to dv tape instead.

One last one:
I know that it is not necessarily required to be certified, but thinking that it might be beneficial, does anyone happen to have any links/info that I can find out more about what that process entails, and the costs etc.

Thanks
Jason
 
You need to look into the NCRA requirements for legal videography. You canNOT mess up a deposition or you throw the entire case in jeopardy. There are specific guidelines for waht the camera must do and how it must get recorded, and much of that is aimed at trying to preserve the frame-accurate integrity of the deposition and prevent any possibility for manipulation or editing of the footage. I would think that recording to a hard drive would be about the furthest thing possible from an acceptable format. But, I haven't looked at the requirements in years...
 
I posted this in the A1 section but I'll try here as well. I need some advice on what camcorder to get. I am using this camcorder that i'll purchase for work and school. I video depositions and other types of legal support, so the criteria for my work camera is very basic. I also would like to use the camera for film school related activities, therefore, i'd like the ability to shoot in HD. I would like my purchase to stay at or below $4.5k. I have looked at all kinds of different cameras and the Canon XH-A1 seems to be the best of both worlds and most capable for both uses. I have heard some things though about its low light performance. Any opinions on camcorders or atleast what I should stay away from? I'm pretty torn
 
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