Matrox Monarch HD Provides Court Transcripts to Huney-Vaughn Team

With this system, generating an H.264-encoded emission stream with RMTP compatibility, with maximum rates of 20 mbps, audiovisual professionals can simultaneously broadcast and record statements.

Judicial reporters are the eyes and ears of a legal team as they are dedicated to capturing detailed transcripts and recordings of all legal proceedings.. The quality and reliability of their work is an integral part of the judicial process.

Huney-Vaughn Court Reporters is Iowa's leading legal transcription company, with a core core of ten certified transcribers offering their services to lawyers and legal teams across the United States from their three locations. It was the first company in the area to digitize and add to its stenographic experience the ability to broadcast and videotap statements.

As part of the preparations for a trial, lawyers request and gather statements from both witnesses and experts who can contribute to the case with their testimony. These oral statements are then transcribed for presentation during the process.. They are usually carried out outside the court without the supervision of the judge in the case.. The recording quality of a video statement is essential, because you have a unique opportunity to capture a quality recording, no possibility to repeat shots.

Aware of this need, Huney-Vaughn sought a solution that offered optimal recording and broadcast capability, and that it was equipped with a security system that protected the recordings for posterity. The option chosen was the system Matrox Monarch HD.

Reliability with broadcast and recording capability

Before the change, Huney-Vaughn recorded and broadcast his contents from a laptop with a built-in webcam. This configuration was far from ideal., as it offered a limited ability to enlarge the image of the witness or expert. In addition, the statements suffered if the broadcast stopped or the recording failed due to a problem with the computer. Because of these drawbacks he decided to replace it with a reliable system, with built-in broadcast and recording capability: Monarch HD.

With Monarch HD, audiovisual professionals have the ability to broadcast and record simultaneously, which guarantees the use of the only possibility to capture the declaration. High-quality H.264 video is recorded in MP4 or MOV files; de-entanglement and scaling engines produce a superior image quality in all recordings. It also has a function to split files. although this security partition is not part of your current processes, Huney-Vaughn likes to count on her in case it's needed in the future..

The device can record digital video files with rates of up to 30 mbps (in the case of recording without broadcast) before saving files to an SD card. This backup system provides the assurance Huney-Vaughn needs.

Monarch HD also generates an H.264 encoded broadcast stream and RMTP compatibility, with maximum rates of 20 mbps. This issuance capability allows lawyers to direct statements from any remote office, saving travel time and costs, while the respondents are in one of the three Huney-Vaughn headquarters, in Des Moines, Davenport and Council Bluffs. Declarations are issued by LiveDeposition.com, a live text and video streaming service in the cloud.

Implemented solution

Monarch HD systems are installed in Huney-Vaughn conference rooms. Device buttons allow easy control of start and stop operations. The HDMI output of an HDMI camcorder is connected to the Monarch HD input Panasonic, while the Monarch HD's HDMI output is used to control on a monitor Delvcam that the camera signal is correctly framed and focused.

The mixing desk QSC Rack-mounted TouchMix-8 handles audio from the four Lavalier microphones and two conference microphones located in each room. The output of this mixer is sent to the audio input of the Monarch HD.

The Monarch HD, a compact and powerful system, makes life easier for judicial videographers, that they only have to configure it once. After this first adjustment, just press a button for the system to start broadcasting and recording with the encoding parameters already specified.

Old laptop and webcam setup was limited, a situation that Monarch HD greatly improved thanks to its ability to configure the quality of recordings. Audiovisual professionals can now control a camera and professional equipment to produce the crisp, well-framed video statements Huney-Vaughn needs.. Live streaming increases efficiency and reduces costs, as lawyers can direct and view statements remotely.

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