What this looks like in practice, from the CCTV clip or phone recording you were handed to an answer you can take into a hearing.
CCTV exports, phone recordings, dashcam clips — video and audio evidence works as it arrives, in common formats, no converting, no special player. If there are several recordings covering one incident, put them all in. Ask your question once and it answers across all of them, which is the part that usually eats a whole afternoon.
It works through the recording on its own while you get on with the rest of the file. You are not sitting there watching a progress bar, and you are not paying a junior to sit there either. When it is ready you can start asking.
Plain questions, in the words you would actually use. Who is visible in the frame, and when? What time does the recording show at a particular moment? Did anyone say something specific, and when? You get an answer back rather than a place to start looking.
Answers come back with the time in the recording they came from, so you can go straight there and see it for yourself. That is the part that makes it usable in a hearing: you cite the moment, and the other side can go to the same moment. And if you ask about something that never happened, it tells you that instead of producing something that sounds right.
Stated plainly, so you can decide with the whole picture rather than finding out mid-case.
It finds things and points you to them. What matters, what is arguable, and what to do about it is your call — it will not give you legal advice or tell you what your argument is.
It can get the right moment and still put the words in the wrong mouth. Because the timestamp is right, that is easy to miss. Where it matters who spoke, play the moment before you rely on it.
Audio from CCTV or a phone recording is often difficult — background noise, several people talking, poor microphone placement. Names and specific words are the first things it gets wrong. Treat it as a way to find things, and arrange a certified transcript where the record needs one.
You can ask a question across every recording from one incident, but it will not merge them into a single synchronised timeline. Working out the precise order of events across recordings is still yours.
Phone and standard video files are fine. Footage off an old shop or building recorder often is not — those systems tend to use their own format with their own player. That needs converting to an ordinary video file first.
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