Mastering Video Impeachments in TrialPad: A Step-by-Step Guide for iPad Users
Learn how to effectively create and use video impeachments in TrialPad on your iPad. This guide covers preparation, importing clips, and presenting in court.
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TRIALPAD VIDEO IMPEACHMENTS - WORKAROUND
Added on 09/07/2024
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Speaker 1: All right, I think it's time for an iPad video. So, what I want to do today is I want to talk about how you can do video impeachments in TrialPad. Now, natively, this is not kind of supported by the app in terms of the way that you might think. So, if you're familiar with TrialDirector for the laptop or Sanction, other more robust laptop-based systems, you can pull up a transcript by searching the transcript by page and line number and make a clip instantly and on the fly that way. You can't exactly do that on the iPad, but there's a workaround. So, the workflow is that you'll have to create the video clips that you might want ahead of time. So, you'll have your list, send it to your videographer or your litigation support people, and it will make the clips. We then upload those clips to a folder in Dropbox, and that's how they get it onto the iPad itself. So, we'll go into my actual Dropbox in TrialPad, and I'll pick up these demo impeachment clips, and here are the files that I want to use. You can see here we go from demo one all the way through demo 49. I think that for this particular witness in the actual trial, there was like 80-something potential clips. They're all relatively short. It's like a Q&A, and so the clips range in anywhere from like three to like 30 seconds. So, we'll select them all, and then we'll import them. We'll create a new case. We'll call it Impeachments Example, and create the case, and those are going to start downloading. And so, the way that it'll work is when you get to the trial, you'll have all your exhibits in your main TrialPad kind of main repository, and then when you need to impeach, then you'll have to switch over from the document section, or maybe you're in the key doc section, and you'll switch over to the multimedia section. Once these files download, I'll show you what that looks like. All right. So, now we've got all the clips downloaded. Let's go take a look at that Impeachment Example folder that we created. If you look in here, there's no documents in there because we haven't uploaded any documents, but your trial, you'll have all your example, your PDFs or JPEGs of your exhibits on this side. You'll go through your normal cross, then you'll hear that the opposing expert said something inconsistent with their prior deposition testimony, and switch over to multimedia, and then here you'll have a list. And the way that these are numbered for this particular client, they like them numbered a certain way because they give us a numbered list of what they want. Now, I'm in the multimedia section, and we pull it up, and let's say it's demo clip 21 that we need to bring up. Once we get connected to another screen, we'll make sure that we're on output, and then we'll go to present. What you'll see is you'll have all your play controls at the bottom, so you have a play, and then you'll also have the scrubbing tool that you can scrub back and forth. The default behavior, I don't think you can change it, but the behavior is once you select it and you're on present, it won't play right away, like the first frame of the video clip will show up on the screen, and then when you're ready to actually present it, you'll hit play. I'm talking about after March 6th, 2006. So then the impeachment clip will play, then once you're done with the impeachment clip, the attorney, or you, will perfect the impeachment. That's the question you're asked. That's the answer you gave. They'll say yes, and then you'll go back to your document section, and then you'll resume the cross-examination that way. So that's how video impeachments will work. Using the iPad, you can do it, but it takes a little bit of legwork ahead of time. Now, I know a lot of attorneys that that legwork will seem like it's too much, but if you really think about it, if you're doing your prep, these are page and line ranges that you should already know, that you should already have in your outline, so that way you're not fumbling around for things and trying to get the impeachment done while also saying, well, you know, I'm pretty sure he said something like that earlier, and having to search for it. So you want to make sure you have that all down in your outline anyway, and so if someone is saying, like, I don't want to do that work ahead of time, video impeachments might not be for me, ask them what they do with their normal cross-examination script, and I bet you that someplace, for the really important clips, they have that information down already, so all they have to do is share it with whoever's going to edit their video, put it into Dropbox, get it onto your iPad, and then you'll be ready to do your impeachments. The only limitation with this is that you can't then say, like, well, I need to play the next Q&A for, let's say, there's an objection, rule of completeness, there's another answer or question that needs to be read. You won't necessarily have that ready, but if that happens, then you can always go and read the following portion. I don't think the jurors are going to hold it against you too much if the opposing side is suddenly asking you to play something else that you didn't originally anticipate playing, but this will also give you the tools you need to make sure that if you have a particularly squirrely witness, that you can kind of keep them in line by showing, look, no matter what you say, I know if you're going to say something different, and I have the video and the audio to prove it. So, that's how we do video impeachments for the iPad. If you need to do a lot of video impeaching, or if you want to absolutely have that ability to impeach on the fly, then the iPad probably isn't going to work for you, and you'll need to do something like Trial Director for the laptop. The Trial Director for iPad can't do it either, or you'll need to use something like Sanction, which is similar to Trial Director in terms of that functionality. But if you have any questions on that, when you should use one or the other, or any questions at all about this, feel free to leave it in the comments for me. I'd love to talk to you guys down there.

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