Depositions · Trial edits · Day-in-the-Life · Nationwide

Court-compliant media, just faster.

Depositions synced and clipped, day-in-the-life documentaries concept to complete, and trial-week edits when the deadline will not move.

We work alongside trial teams through trial week. Eve-of-hearing edits that keep a case on schedule.
Paralegals on the team
In-house crews, no outsourcing
Confidential & admissibility-conscious
Serving law firms nationwide
Why us

Legal video, handled by people who speak law.

We’re here to prepare you with the exact product you expect. Synced depositions, designated clips, court-ready files, faster and more affordable. How? The speed and savings are built into how we work, and we love what we do.

01

Legal minds on the task

Our team includes paralegals, so you’re not explaining designations or admissibility to a video editor. We already know what a clean impeachment clip needs, what a court will accept, and what gets a video kept out. You brief us once, in your language, and it’s understood.

02

Round-the-clock customer service

We staff for the nights and weekends that trial weeks actually run on. When the evidentiary ruling drops the night before you present, we’re the vendor still answering, instead of apologizing for being late.

03

Our own software, faster and secure

We built our own proprietary software to pull and deliver your clips faster, without routing your case through third-party AI or public cloud tools. Less manual work means a quicker turnaround and a lower cost for you, without ever putting privileged footage somewhere it doesn’t belong.

What we do

Everything your case needs from the footage.

A full suite of litigation video services: synchronization, clip designation, exhibits, and more, from a team you can actually reach.

Video-Transcript Synchronization

We link your deposition video line-by-line to the official transcript. It arrives ready to search and play in our own trial-presentation system, or set up for the established workflow your firm already runs. No reformatting on your end.

Most requested
Deposition Editing

Give us your page-and-line designations or start/stop words and times; we cut the exact clips, redact as needed, and build the sequence that serves your argument.

Trial-ready
“Day-in-the-Life” Productions

Documentary-style films that land honestly and without melodrama, showing how an injury reshapes a person’s daily life. Filmed by our own crews on professional-grade equipment, built to support your damages theory. Scoped and quoted separately.

Damages support
Enhancement & Overlays

Exhibits clean and readable, audio crisp, brightness corrected. Plus exhibit sync and picture-in-picture, so the jury sees the document and the witness’s reaction together. A polished presentation, with the original footage underneath it all, unaltered. Exhibit preparation and placement are itemized in your quote.

High impact
Evidentiary Review

Body-worn camera, surveillance, and accident-scene footage prepared for admissibility, reviewed frame by frame and delivered court-compliant. Scoped and quoted separately.

Court-compliant
Rush

Deposition ran late and the hearing comes tomorrow? Same-day return is available on request and quoted per matter, and during trial week we stay on call for the changes that come up mid-trial.

Same-day on request
Also available

Two more things your case may need.

These two come up less often, so here is exactly how they work.

Secure repository & streaming New

A private, encrypted space where your team can stream, search, and download every synced deposition on the case. Download what you need ahead of time and it plays in the courtroom whether or not there is a connection. Scoped and quoted separately.

Legacy media & conversion

Old VHS, DVD, or odd file formats digitized and converted to clean, court-ready MP4, so nothing is lost because of the medium. Scoped and quoted separately. Tape and disc conversion runs on its own timeline and is the one service we don’t promise same-day.

Day-in-the-Life & settlement documentaries

Stories that move.

A day-in-the-life film shows what a simple speech just can’t: the quiet, daily reality of living with a life-changing injury. And that isn’t only instinct. In a controlled study published in Applied Cognitive Psychology, mock jurors who were shown a visual demonstration of a plaintiff’s impairment awarded significantly more in pain-and-suffering damages than jurors who only heard it described. Seeing it led them to judge the suffering as more severe.

Park, J. & Feigenson, N., “Picturing pain and suffering: Effects of demonstrative evidence, instructions, and plaintiff credibility on mock jurors’ damage awards,” Applied Cognitive Psychology 35(3), 730-750 (2021). Read the study →

And oftentimes the difference is made by who’s behind the camera. Day-in-the-life shoots are produced by Respectful Productions, our award-winning sister production company with 7+ years in the documentary space, so your client is filmed by an experienced documentary crew that works nationally and internationally, knows how to direct honestly, and keeps a sensitive shoot calm and respectful. Never exploitative, never staged.

  • Filmed by Respectful Productions, nationally and internationally
  • Small, respectful crews experienced with sensitive subjects
  • Edited with admissibility in mind, built to withstand objection
  • About six weeks from shoot to final delivery, in the length and format you need
Production workflow

Let us handle the logistics. We can work with any timeline.

01

Case consult

We learn the injury, the story, and the goal, then plan a shoot that serves your damages theory.

02

The shoot

A directed day (or half-day) capturing morning-to-night reality, care routines, and family impact. We also help gather pre-existing footage of how things were before.

03

Documentary edit

Cut into an honest, compelling narrative, with pre/post contrast, interviews, and context where it helps. No frills, just simple effective storytelling.

04

Review & delivery

You review; we refine; you receive a ready-to-play film in the length and format you need. Figure about six weeks from shoot to final delivery. Depositions are measured in days, documentaries in weeks.

Working together

How we plug into your team.

Before anything gets cut, we sit down with you. One conversation sets the whole engagement, so nobody is guessing at process in the middle of trial week.

01
Kickoff call

Once we’re agreed on scope, we schedule a call with your team: the attorney, the paralegal, whoever will actually be sending us designations. Then we walk the case end to end.

02
Your process, not ours

We learn how your team already works: how you track designations, name files, and hand off to trial tech. Then we fit into that instead of asking you to change it.

03
Feedback, agreed up front

We settle who reviews, how notes come back to us, and how many rounds you expect, all before the first cut, so revisions are a routine instead of a scramble.

04
Delivery, confirmed early

Format, file naming, and where it lands, whether that is our presentation system or yours. All confirmed ahead of the first deadline, not discovered on the morning of it.

Scope & turnaround

Scoped to your case. Returned at your speed.

A quote is built on scope: the designation ranges, prepared exhibit views, and on-screen placements your matter needs. Turnaround is a separate choice you layer on top.

Most popular
Turnaround
Same DayReturned to you the same day
Case prep starts today

Start working the footage with your client the same day it’s taken, instead of losing a week of case preparation waiting on a vendor.

  • Everything in 2-Day
  • Same-day delivery on your trial-week edits
  • On-call during your trial week
  • An editor you know and trust, who speaks your language, on your team through trial week
  • Weekends & holidays covered
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Turnaround
2-DayReturned to you in 2 days
Deadline this week
  • Everything in 5-Day
  • Clip designation by page & line
  • Exhibit preparation and on-screen placement, itemized in your quote
  • A dedicated editor on your file
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Turnaround
5-DayReturned to you in 5 days
Lowest urgency
  • Video-transcript synchronization
  • Enhancement & overlays
  • Ready for our presentation system, or yours
  • Two revision rounds: one round is one consolidated set of notes from your authorized contact
  • Secure file delivery
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Bespoke Documentary
By projectcustom quote
Day-in-the-Life & settlement films
  • Case consult and shoot planning around your damages theory
  • In-house documentary crew, nationally and internationally
  • Pre/post contrast, interviews, and context where it helps
  • About six weeks from shoot to final delivery
  • Delivered in the length and format you need
Get a quote

Send the footage, your designations, and your deadline. We’ll scope the matter and come back with a quote. Documentary work is quoted per project; the turnaround choices above cover deposition and trial video.

Get in touch

Tell us about your case.

Just email us and get a quote now.

quotes@fletcherlegalmedia.com
Serving law firms nationwide