Step-by-Step Guide to Using Depo View Disks for Video Depositions
Learn how to effectively use Depo View disks for synced video depositions. Follow our detailed instructions to ensure smooth playback and integration.
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How to use a Depo View synced video deposition disc
Added on 09/08/2024
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Speaker 1: Hello again, Jim from Second Sight Video here and I appreciate you watching our video. This is about depo views, depositions, video depositions that are synced with the transcript. It's called depo view by Indata. It's also referred to as digital video transcript or text sync sometimes. And we've had some people call us with questions about how these disks are used. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to take you through step by step as to exactly how you use this disk because it's not complicated but there is a certain procedure that you have to follow. You have to copy the files from the disk to your computer and you have to download the software from Indata's website. And then once you've got all that on the hard drive of your computer, then you're able to successfully use the depo view disk. So the first thing we do is we're going to take the disk out and we're going to put it in the computer. So we put the depo view disk into the drive on our computer, preferably would be a DVD drive, which is what's in most computers these days. And the first thing that you'll see, if you're connected to the internet, you will go directly to the Indata website and it will tell you to download the depo view software, which has been reserved for you by our company, Second Sight Video. What you want to do is you want to close that because you don't want to do that quite yet. What we recommend that you do is you copy the files from the disk onto your computer. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to first go to my computer. What you should do is go to your computer and go to a place on your computer, actually I'm going to open up Windows Explorer, and you should go to a place on your computer where you want to store the depo view video. And so I'm going to do this for purposes of ease just on the desktop of the computer so that we can all see it. You should just do it to a place where you can make sure you can get back to it and find it. And then you want to again go to explore, you want to open up or go to the disk, just click on the disk one time, and you'll see a series of files, exhibits, import media, vendor, an autorun file, and some other files here. And what you want to do is you want to take those and you want to copy them just as they are into the folder that's on your computer where you're going to store the depo view deposition. So you take that and you're going to start to copy and it's going to take quite a while because, well it should take a little while, it depends on your computer and it depends on how long the deposition is. It has to copy the MPEG files completely so you want to go and copy all the files into that folder just as they are, don't leave anything out. If you leave something out it's not going to work correctly and then when you're done on the hard drive of your computer you'll have a folder, you probably should name it for the deposition also, and that folder will have in it a folder called exhibits, one called import, one called media, one called vendor, an autorun exe file, and three other files. While it's doing that I'm going to tell you what is in these various files. Exhibits is a folder that you can put exhibits in, when we provide a depo view disk we don't generally have control of the exhibits, the court reporter generally does, so we for the most part leave the exhibits folder empty. The import folder has got files in it that can be used to import the synced video deposition and the transcript into various trial software. So if you have trial director you'll use a certain file that's in here, if you have summation you'll use a different file that's in the import folder. If you have other forms of trial preparation software those will also be in the import folder here. Media is a folder that is very important, it has the actual MPEG files that have the video on it, and so this will be the largest folder, the folder that has the largest files in it. Vendor just has the vendor information, not that critical. Autorun.exe is the program that runs the depo view program and the video with the transcript. Autorun.inf is another file that's needed but is not too important to talk about right now. The dbt file here I believe is the file that has the sync information between the video and the transcript itself, and this last file here is the transcript itself. So once everything is copied onto your computer then you're ready to go. Okay so once the copying has finished you can go to the folder that you have your deposition in, your depo view video deposition. When you click on it you can see that the folders are here and the files are here just as they were on the disk. You can go ahead and remove the disk from your computer. The reason you don't want to play from the disk is that the video just doesn't play well from the disk, it plays much better from the hard drive of your computer. So once you're here then you click on the Autorun.exe file and because there is no program on the computer for the depo view software it's going to take you to Indata's website and you are given a free invitation to download the software. So you have to do this, you click run and it will begin to download and it downloads just the way a program normally downloads from the internet. The length of time is going to depend on your internet connection and once it's downloaded you should install it and it will be installed on your computer. You will have a program called depo view in your program file and then you will run your depo view disk. Okay so once the software has downloaded and you've installed it on your computer you'll have depo view on your computer and it will automatically begin and it will bring in the media files, it will bring in the court reporter's transcript and they will work together harmoniously and because you've copied all your files to the computer and you're not working off of that optical disk the program is going to work a lot better. If you try to go directly from the disk it's going to stutter, it's going to jump around, it's going to take a long long time, you're going to become very frustrated so don't try to work with the program from the DVD or CD disk that we send you. Copy the files to your computer, download the software from the indata website and then it's going to work like a charm. So it's digital video transcript depo view disk. It's a great way to use a video deposition as part of your trial preparation and it's available from us, 2nd Sight Video, your legal videographers. If you have any more questions our website is www.2ndsightvideo.com and I'm Jim Davidson. Please feel free to email me, jim at 2ndsightvideo.com. You can email my partner Dave Weingarten, dave at 2ndsightvideo.com. We've been legal videographers for many years and we would love to assist you with your next litigation. Thanks very much and we'll see you soon.

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