How to Use Deposition Transcription to Strengthen Your Cases
June 2025
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3 min read
Deposition involves questioning a witness, called the deponent, under oath, with a court reporter accurately transcribing every question and answer. These are often recorded for attorneys to reference later.
Lawyers on both sides receive the deposition recording and the court transcription as a part of the discovery process.
These videos and transcripts help defense lawyers understand the other side's view of the case, preserve testimony, challenge witnesses if they contradict themselves, and prepare their clients for trial question
However, lawyers face some challenges:
- these court transcripts often have incorrect timecodes, misaligning them with the deposition video.
- transcripts may contain inaccuracies and typos.
- managing and preserving hours of deposition footage is time-consuming and overwhelming.
- not all parts of the deposition are relevant, making it challenging to extract the right clips for video exhibits.
- deposition clips need to be redacted for any PII before they are admissible.
Fortunately, tools like Reduct.Video let you sync deposition videos with transcripts, edit securely, and present video exhibits without risking PII exposure.
Deposition sync: Start reviewing deposition discovery immediately
Once you upload your deposition recording to Reduct, you’ll receive an AI-generated transcript in approximately 15 minutes, regardless of the video's length.
With Reduct, there's no limits on file size or video length, you can bulk import all your recordings in one go without worrying about anything getting stuck.
The transcript is timestamped and interactive, allowing you to click on any part to jump directly to that moment in the recording. This helps you quickly reference claims and navigate specific parts of the testimony during trial.
With Reduct’s fast AI-generated transcripts, you can start reviewing the case as soon as you receive the discovery material—no need to wait weeks for a court transcript.
💡 Upload court certified transcript
If you already have a court-certified transcript of your deposition, you can upload it along with the video to Reduct. Reduct will replace the AI-generated transcript with the certified one and automatically sync it with your audio or video.
Transcript correction: Fix mistakes in the transcript
Even experienced court reporters can occasionally make mistakes, especially during long depositions with multiple speakers, overlapping dialogue, heavy accents, or frequent interruptions.
Presenting transcripts with errors to the court undermines both your and the case’s credibility.
With Reduct, you can easily edit your transcript and fix typos, capitalization, or spelling errors—whether it's an AI-generated version or a certified court transcript.
These edited transcript changes are also reflected in the captions of the deposition video.
Presentation: Create and compose video exhibits with captions
Editing deposition videos to create concise, relevant exhibits takes a lot of time, especially if you have less experience with technology and need to deal with multiple lengthy depositions.
But with Reduct you can condense an hour-long deposition video into shorter video demonstratives without any technical expertise.
Say you want to focus on a specific moment where a witness's trial testimony contradicts their deposition.
Creating short reels with captions from your deposition and turning them into video exhibits can help impeach the witness's credibility and support your case’s narrative.
Just select the text or paragraph in the transcript and click the Add to reel option.
To improve the presentation of your video exhibits in court, you can also add title slides to separate different testimonies taken at different times.
A searchable repository of all your past depositions, organized by case
If you’re working on several cases at once then the sheer volume of deposition makes it difficult for you to organize and securely store your recordings.
This is especially challenging if your case involves multiple deponents and you need to frequently access specific testimony from lengthy depositions.
With Reduct’s secure cloud storage, you can easily preserve all your deposition recordings without having to worry about the filesize or the format.
With our project-based file organization, you can easily manage multiple cases and access depositions from long back. This feature makes Reduct the best solution for a searchable repository.
Similarly, with Reduct’s powerful search capabilities you can extract both exact or related data through fuzzy search from multiple depositions at once.
Attorneys and paralegals save hundreds of hours with Reduct
Reduct offers valuable solutions to the challenges attorneys and paralegals face with deposition video transcription.
By syncing deposition videos with transcripts, securely editing content, and presenting polished video exhibits, Reduct ensures that sensitive information is protected and you win in court.
