4 easy ways to handle body cam footage faster using Reduct
October 2023
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3 min read
Law enforcement and legal professionals are increasingly utilizing body-worn cameras (BWCs) to document interactions, enhance transparency, and strengthen the evidence in investigations and court proceedings.
These documents and footage can be used not only as evidence but as a tool to help build transparency and accountability.
4-ways to deal with body-worn cam footage faster with Reduct
Here are four ways you can process body-cam footage more efficiently by uploading your recordings to Reduct
1. Scan through the generated transcripts and subtitles faster
Almost immediately after uploading your recording to Reduct, it starts rolling out transcription and embeds subtitles within your body-worn camera footage.
Depending on your requirements you have the option to choose between machine and human transcription. The generated transcript is interactive: you can move to any part of the recording just by clicking on a word in the transcription.
If required, you can edit the captions where necessary to offer clean-cut videos free from any filler words, irrelevant discussion, and unclear speech. Or you can just extract the parts of the footage that are relevant to your case.
2. Enable legal officials to navigate through extensive video evidence
Reduct’s powerful search allows you to search through hundreds of hours of video and audio footage to get to the relevant parts of your case.
As shown in the animation below: where we search for "police", the search is also able to offer the relevant findings for “officers.”
3. Transform lengthy footage into concise, informative reels
The body-worn camera captures a lot of footage once it's been activated~ including hours of recordings that are irrelevant to your case.
Reduct helps you turn your hour-long footage into shorter reels of digital evidence.
To create a reel in Reduct, you can either select the **entire recording option **from the **convert **menu.
This takes the entire video into Reduct’s Reel Builder where you can edit your recording as a whole.
Or you can highlight only the critical parts of the footage and select the add-to-reel option to compile only the required sections of the recording together.
This allows you to compile the small bits of the footage and convert them into a single reel. You can name each reel according to your requirements.
With Reduct reels, you get a clear and concise overview of the case making it easier to grasp the main idea.
4. Simplify the sharing of evidence and recordings with investigators and legal partners
You can easily share your edited reel with your investigator and legal partners by directly inputting their names or email IDs in the project-sharing feature and hitting the invite button.
The easier way would be to click on the ‘copy link’ option and share your reels across email platforms, work collaboration tools, and messenger apps. You can also invite multi-users at the same time and collaboratively work with your team.
Bonus point
Redact Personally Identifiable Information
One of the important legal requirements when it comes to e-discovery is redacting confidential and personally identifiable information in digital evidence.
Legal redaction falls under the American Bar Association's rule of editing, hiding, or removing specific content to protect a client's confidential information. There are several laws that protect an individual’s right to privacy such as HIPAA, GDPR.
You can use Reduct to redact video and audio footage easily and effectively safeguarding the privacy of your participants/witnesses.
With Reduct’s secure blur feature, you can choose to hide an entire portion of the video, or selectively blur just the faces of your participants.
With Reduct, you can blur faces within your footage in just three easy steps.
There’s more ..
The Colorado State Public Defender's Office were looking for a fast legal transcription service to quickly generate transcripts for the growing amount of audio and video evidence used in their cases.
After trying Reduct successfully in mid-2021, the Office decided to implement its use in 21 locations.
In these locations, over a thousand lawyers uploaded more than 500,000 minutes of digital evidence, like audio and video recordings including the footage from bodyworn cameras, using only Reduct. 🤯
With audio and video evidence becoming more common, law enforcement and legal professionals worldwide are using bodyworn camera footage in investigations, and court proceedings.
Make sure to choose reliable tools like Reduct for your legal footage management and process your digital evidence securely, and more effectively.
