Richmond Legal Video, Inc.

     Deposition Recording:

• In conjunction with the deposition transcript, a video recording can be useful in demonstrating the demeanor of your witness, as well as his words. Was he confident and convincing? Or did he look to his Counsel for guidance in answering questions? Did he answer quickly and without hesitation? Or did he take long pauses to think and then carefully formulate his responses? These important factors will not be reflected in the written word alone. The video will bring the Jury to the deposition.
   

• Video is also useful in preserving trial testimony - and the way it was given - in the event that your scheduled witness will be unable to appear. Your expert witnesses can testify in court by videotape at a far lower cost than traveling to court and waiting hours - or days - to offer his testimony. And infirm or elderly witnesses whose depositions are videotaped may be able to have a Jury see and hear them offer their testimony in court years later, even if they are no longer...available.
   

• The use of videotaped depositions at the time of trial, often with trial presentation software, is an ideal way to impeach a witness. Q: "Mr. Johnson, did you not say, at your discovery deposition just three years ago, that you never saw this document?" A: "I do not have a recollection of saying that." Q: "Let's go to the videotape." And in just seconds the witness is seen and heard offering conflicting testimony.
  
  
  Depositions are videotaped in law offices, hotel conference rooms, medical offices, private homes and commercial sites throughout the country. From hospital beds, state penitentiaries, and even aboard ship, your witness' testimony can be seen and heard by both Judge and Jury. And through the use of speakerphones and videocasting, attorneys may not even have to be in the room with the witness.
  
  Equipment used includes a video camera (VHS, SVHS, or Digital) with auxiliary videotape recorder, multi-channel audio mixer with lavaliere microphones, video monitor, headphones, audiotape recorder to produce an audiotape recording for stenographic reporter, tripod and backdrop. Supplemental lighting is used only when absolutely necessary.