In-person legal videography

Recorded by a full-time deposition videographer

Hawaiʻi is not short on people who own a camera. It is short on people who shoot depositions as their full-time trade, and you usually cannot tell which one you booked until the file lands. By then the witness is gone and the room is closed. We arrive early, with equipment chosen for conference rooms rather than events: one camera on the witness, two independent recorders, matched timecode burned in natively, and a clean audio mix feeding the record.

Media Preservation

A common practice is to drag video off the card and reformat it the same afternoon, which destroys the original and leaves nothing to check the copy against. Media Preservation runs on every in-person job instead. The same day we record, master cards are imaged to E01 forensic files under write-protection before any post-processing begins, and the imaging tool verifies each image against its card. Every file in the image is SHA-256 hashed and listed in a timestamped manifest, so any later change to a file is detectable. Masters are kept seven years, and we tell you before anything is deleted. Because the record exists from day one, authenticating it later doesn't have to mean hiring an outside expert.

Cryptographic authentication (add-on)

As AI-generated video becomes a real concern in litigation, counsel may need to show a recording has not changed. The authentication package documents that:

• Hashing. Every file carries a SHA-256 value. Any later change, down to a single bit, produces a different hash.
• Public timestamping. The same day, those values are submitted to OpenTimestamps for anchoring in the Bitcoin blockchain. Once anchored, anyone can confirm the values existed by that date, and no one, including us, can alter the record.
• Signed report. When the package is ordered, the hash values and the block heights at which each timestamp was anchored are compiled into a PDF, signed with a private key held on a hardware YubiKey and executed under penalty of perjury. Any PDF reader can confirm the report hasn't changed. Our certificate is self-issued, so the reader may show the signer as unknown; match it to the certificate published at /keys.

Because the timestamps are created on the day of the deposition, ordering the package months later loses nothing. The evidentiary work is already anchored; the certification is prepared for your specific matter when you need it.

Neutrality on the record

The camera stays rolling until all parties agree to go off the record, however heated the dispute becomes. We do not act on a unilateral demand to cut the feed. Deliverables are processed here, and synchronization is available as soon as the certified transcript arrives.