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NCRA CLVS Seminar / TechCon
Legal Video Related Websites
April 2015
Legal Videography Certification and Education Sites These associations provide some sort of education in legal video or claim to be legal video associations. We are currently unaware of other associations focused on legal video at the time of publication. We reserve the right to be wrong. Organization
Website
Organization’s Claim to Fame
Provides Certification?
American Guild of Court Videographers
http://www.agcv.com
Certifying Legal Videographers since 1995. Teaches and certifies multiple skill sets of Legal Videography.
Yes
National Court Reporters Association
http://www.ncra.org/specialty/Videographers.c fm?navItemNumber=642
Sets and enforces standards for competency in the capture, utilization, and retention of legal video and promotes awareness of these standards to the legal community.
Yes
Video University.com
http://www.videouniversity.com/shop/legalvideo-specialist-business-kit
Master the Art, Technology, and Business of Legal Video Production. Knowledge, but no industry recognition.
No
Please note: the organization is making the claim to fame, and not the author.
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Bruce Balmer, MBA, CIRM, CLVS, CCVS, CME
NCRA CLVS Seminar / TechCon
Legal Video Related Websites
April 2015
Online Video Education Sites These sites provide some sort of education in aspects of legal video or video in general. Site Name ATEM Users
Link http://www.atemuser.com
Claim to Fame Site for video mixer issues, supported by Blackmagic Design
Is it active? Yes. This site would be useful for folks looking for P-in-P info with BMD ATEM mixers.
DVInfo.net
http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/
Offers site support for specific camera models and software applications.
Very active. Technical blog. Addresses audio and video issues. Not focused on legal video. Use your real name and email address.
Lynda.com
http://www.lynda.com
Professional website offering online training in thousands of technical applications via small video clips. Can be used with slow modems. Very classy and great learning experience.
Active newsletter. Continuously updated with new training modules, including Adobe Acrobat, Office applications, as well as NLE applications, photography apps, etc. Can enroll month by month or annually.
Video Help
http://www.videohelp.com
Provides a lot of technical information concerning standards, etc.
Yes, but is not always current.
Civil Procedure R eferences Site Name Cornell Law School – Legal Information Institute FindLaw
Link http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp
US Courts – Federal Rules
http://www.uscourts.gov/rulesandpolicies/rules. aspx
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http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/
Claim to Fame Federal rules. Not always up to date. Always easy to navigate. Rules split up by code and court. State rules located down the page. Federal rules. Always up to date.
Bruce Balmer, MBA, CIRM, CLVS, CCVS, CME
NCRA CLVS Seminar / TechCon
Legal Video Related Websites
April 2015
Active or Som ew hat Active Legal Video R elated Forum s Site Name LinkedIn.com
Link http://www.linkedin.com Groups Certified Legal Video Specialist
LinkedIn.com
http://www.linkedin.com Groups Legal Videographers Network
LinkedIn.com
http://www.linkedin.com Groups Trial Technology
LinkedIn.com
http://www.linkedin.com Groups Litigation Support Vendors Association
LinkedIn.com
http://www.linkedin.com Groups Freelance Legal Professionals
MyLegal.com
http://www.mylegal.com
Facebook.com https://www.facebook.com/legalvideography?ref=br_rs
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Gaining membership You must be a CLVS or attend this seminar to join. You must maintain CLVS to stay in Group
Is it active? Actively monitored by CLVS Council. Responses to post are usually very detailed. Professional site. Lots of polls give you window on industry.
Be a member of LinkedIn and ask to join.
Somewhat active site. No restrictions to entry (both certified and non-certified posters). You’ll see some disagreement among posters.
Be a member of LinkedIn and ask to join.
Active groups that migrated over from Yahoo.
Be a member of LinkedIn and ask to join.
Very little current activity in legal video. However, site covers other aspects of technical support that the legal community may be interested in.
Be a member of LinkedIn and ask to join.
Not focused on legal video. Useful for understanding the legal professional industry.
Follow registration process online.
The site is very active. The legal video group is not. Professional site.
Have to be a member Somewhat active site. No of Facebook.com restrictions to entry. Bruce Balmer, MBA, CIRM, CLVS, CCVS, CME
NCRA CLVS Seminar / TechCon
Legal Video Related Websites
April 2015
Forums (Continued) Site Name Yahoo Groups – Legal Video Forum
Link http://www.yahoo.com/ to join Yahoo, then http://groups.yahoo.com/ group/LegalVideoForum/
Gaining membership 1. Create a Yahoo user ID
3. In the “Find Yahoo! Groups search box, type legalvideoforum with no spaces.
Is it active? Very active and current (>100 posts per month). You probably want to set your notices off to keep the emails out of your mail box.
4. Go to the home page of the forum, and click on “Join this Group”
The CLVS Council actively monitors this site.
2. On the Yahoo home page, touch the Groups link
Yahoo Groups – Lit Support
http://www.yahoo.com/ to join Yahoo, then http://groups.yahoo.com/ group/litsupport/
See above
Very active and current (>100 posts per month). You probably want to set your notices off to keep the emails out of your mail box.
Yahoo Groups – Trial Technology Forum
http://www.yahoo.com/ to join Yahoo, then http://groups.yahoo.com/ group/trialtechnology/
Group has moved to LinkedIn
Semi-active (< 5 posts per month). See comment above concerning LinkedIn, same name
NOTES: This is not an exhaustive list of Legal Video related or video forums in general. Well, that’s not exactly true. There is a Texas legal video forum on Yahoo. That being said, I don’t know of many others out there.
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Bruce Balmer, MBA, CIRM, CLVS, CCVS, CME
NCRA CLVS Seminar / TechCon
Legal Video Related Websites
April 2015
Professional Video M agazines Site Name Broadcast Engineering
Link http://tvtechnology.com
Claim to Fame Tired of all the TTFLAs? Broadcast Engineering helps you understand what you’re dealing with. Paid subscription.
Digital Video
http://www.creativeplanetnetwork.com/dv/
Great website. Useful reviews on equipment that addresses every level of non-broadcast video. Magazines covered include dv, digital content producer, Videography, Digital Cinematography, millimeter
HDVideoPro
http://www.hdvideopro.com
Great articles on where HD is going. Get prepared.
OnlineVideo.net
http://www.onlinevideo.net
Platforms and strategies for online video
Streaming Media
http://www.streamingmedia.com/magazine/
The best for figuring out how to deal with video & the web. Superb codec and software reviews.
http://www.streamingmedia.com/producer/ Videomaker Magazine
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http://www.videomaker.com
A more basic video magazine with good equipment reviews and how-to articles. More consumer level-related. Rarely examines useful camcorders for the legal video market.
Bruce Balmer, MBA, CIRM, CLVS, CCVS, CME
NCRA CLVS Seminar / TechCon
Legal Video Related Websites
April 2015
Hardw are Sites that provide m ore than hardw are Site Name BH Photo Video
Link http://www.bhphotovideo.com
Claim to Fame Get their annual catalogs for audio professionals and video professionals. The best catalogs in the business. Great explanations of video codecs, etc.
Markertek Super Store
http://www.markertek.com
The local hardware store of video equipment. Have numerous reviews of new equipment in their weekly newsletter.
Videoguys.com
http://www.videoguys.com
Another great information site concerning video. Pricing is sometimes very competitive; other times it’s just average.
NOTE: The pages following this note list links to software tools and applications that are useful in the day to day business of the legal videographer. None of these are endorsed by the NCR A. They are part of an arsenal of good applications.
Video Inspection / Evaluation Tools Site Name GSpot Codec Information Appliance 2.70a
Link http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
Claim to Fame Video analysis application. Last updated in the late 2000s. Does a great job with MPEG-1, 2, VOB files but does not some MP4, AVCHD, MTS files.
Media Info 0.7.72
http://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo
A convenient unified display of the most relevant technical info for video files. Supports newer files types. All OS supported on website.
Media Inspector 2.6
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mediainspector/id419975242?mt=12&ls=1#
The Mac version of GSpot. Great reporting function for documentation.
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Bruce Balmer, MBA, CIRM, CLVS, CCVS, CME
NCRA CLVS Seminar / TechCon
Legal Video Related Websites
April 2015
Date Em bedders Site Name DV Date 7.1.1
Link http://paul.glagla.free.fr/index_en.htm
Claim to Fame Burns hidden date and timestamp in DV AVI files only. This is the download to the free version. Make sure you pay for the professional version (