Find what matters in the footage — and have it ready for court.
BodyCam Defense is built for the review, not instead of it. Every recording becomes a synced, searchable transcript with the key moments flagged — so you get through the footage faster, capture what you find in notes, bookmarks, and issue lists, and walk into court with every moment a click away.
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UNIT 1138 · 00:34:12
02:14 / 03:28
Transcript
AudioVisual
02:08
Officer Reyes: Step out of the vehicle for me.
02:14
Officer Reyes: Hands where I can see them.Use of force
02:31
Speaker 2: I didn't do anything. [cross-talk]
03:02
Officer Reyes: You have the right to remain silent.Miranda warning
2:48
transcript ready
7 events
tagged in this clip
Where the hours go
Watch the footage. Skip the scrubbing.
Reviewing bodycam by hand isn't just watching — it's scrubbing back and forth, rewinding to re-find a moment, and transcribing and typing notes the whole way. BodyCam Defense clears that overhead away, so your time goes to the review itself and the work product builds as you go.
Reviewing it yourself
3.5 hrs
of your time, per hour of footage
Billable judgment spent scrubbing and transcribing — and hoping you didn't miss the frame that matters.
vs
With BodyCam Defense
~1 hr
of focused review, per hour of footage
You watch the footage with a transcript and flagged moments as your guide — and your bookmarks, notes, and lists build as you go.
This isn't about reviewing less — it's about cutting the scrubbing, rewinding, and hand-transcription, so the time you spend goes to judgment and you finish with bookmarked, highlighted, court-ready work product.
You write
5
Plain-language review questions you can attach at upload — every responsive moment gets flagged and a one-click jump-bar.
Surfaced for you
19
Events of interest the AI flags on every video — from shots fired to a Miranda warning — even when you didn't ask.
Who runs it
Anyone
No special training. A paralegal can run the first-pass review from your written instructions — so you take the footage with organized work product already in hand.
How it works
Upload the footage and your questions. Get a transcript you can work through.
No editing software, no settings to learn. Upload a recording and BodyCam Defense transcribes every word and every scene, flags the key moments, and gives you a workspace to review it, mark it up, and organize it.
01
Upload the footage
Bodycam, dashcam, surveillance, jail or interview-room video — mp4, mov, webm, avi and more. Audio files too. Hour-plus recordings are no problem.
02
Hand off your review questions
Type up to five plain-language questions of what to look for — "find where our client was first seen by police," "was a Miranda warning given." A paralegal can take it from here.
03
AI builds two transcripts
A diarized, verbatim audio transcript of everything said, and a scene-by-scene visual transcript of what happens on camera — with events of interest and every responsive moment tagged.
04
Build the courtroom record
Ask the footage follow-up questions, bookmark and highlight key moments, and build issue and witness lists — work product you can use on the stand and in front of a jury.
What you get
Not a transcript. Trial-ready evidence.
BodyCam Defense does the review for you and turns the footage into work product — the moments you asked for, flagged, and organized for court.
Custom review questions
Tell it what to look for. It finds every instance.
When you upload footage, enter up to five plain-language questions of what matters in this case — "when did the accident first occur," "I want the first ten minutes of the interrogation," "was a Miranda warning given." Alongside the two transcripts, BodyCam Defense flags every segment responsive to each question and gives the reviewer a one-click jump-bar to step straight through those moments.
Up to five questions, written in plain English — no syntax to learn.
Every responsive segment flagged against the question that asked for it.
A jump-bar steps the reviewer through each hit in order.
And you are never boxed in by those five. The complete transcript stays fully searchable for the life of the case — as new facts surface and your theory of the case shifts, you can search every word again, as many times as you need. No re-processing, no new upload.
Review questions · attached at upload
1When did the accident first occur?
2I want the first ten minutes of the interrogation.
3Was a Miranda warning given?
4Add another question…
Responsive moments · question 3
Q3"You have the right to remain silent…"03:02
Q3Warning re-read on camera at booking.41:18
Step through every hit2 of 2
Dual transcripts
What was said, and what was seen — side by side.
Every video produces two synchronized transcripts. The audio transcript is diarized and verbatim: every officer, suspect, and witness, timestamped, with cross-talk, non-speech audio, and [inaudible] all captured. The visual transcript describes the scene segment by segment — what is happening on camera, in factual, court-appropriate language.
Speaker-labeled audio transcript with timestamps on every line.
Scene-by-scene visual transcript — neutral description, not intent or motive.
Both transcripts synced to one video player — switch tabs, keep your place.
Bodycam · Unit 1138 · audio transcript
01:52
Officer Reyes
License and registration, please.
02:06
Speaker 2
It's in the glove box — can I reach for it?
02:14
Officer Reyes
Keep your hands on the wheel. [raised voice]
Use of force
02:38
Speaker 2
[inaudible] — I'm not doing anything.
Events of interest
The footage flags itself — even when you didn't ask.
Beyond your five review questions, BodyCam Defense watches the entire video and automatically tags nineteen events of interest — the moments that decide criminal and civil-rights cases. The things you didn't think to look for — a gunshot, a use of force, someone screaming, a visible injury — are detected and waiting. Jump straight to each one; no scrubbing a timeline hoping to land on the right second.
Shots fired, weapon drawn, use of force, forced entry.
Person injured, bleeding, screaming or yelling, crying or distress.
Miranda warning given, search conducted, evidence handled, backup arrives.
Events detected · 7 in this clip
Officer draws weapon01:09Jump
Shots fired01:52Jump
Use of force02:14Jump
Person on ground02:22Jump
Miranda warning given03:02Jump
Medical aid rendered03:19Jump
Ask the video
Once it's transcribed, ask the footage anything.
After a recording is processed, the reviewer can ask it questions in plain language at any time — "how many officers arrived," "when was the Miranda warning read," "how many other suspects were arrested" — and get a timestamped answer back, with a one-click jump to the cited moment. Review becomes a conversation, not a scrub through a timeline.
Ask follow-up questions any time after processing — no re-upload.
Every answer cites the timestamp it came from.
One click jumps the video straight to the cited moment.
Ask the video · Unit 1138
How many officers arrived on scene?
Four officers are visible. A second unit arrives at 04:36; a supervisor arrives at 07:12.
Jump to 04:36
When was the Miranda warning read?
The warning is read once, on camera, at 03:02 — and re-read at booking at 41:18.
Jump to 03:02
Ask a question about this recording…
Trial-ready work product
Build the case file, not just a transcript.
Bookmark and highlight the moments that matter and group them into issue lists and witness lists. This is evidence organized for use during the case — to question a witness on the stand, to show a judge or jury a specific moment without scrubbing, and to show a client exactly what the footage holds when you discuss a plea. The output is trial-ready, not just text.
Bookmark and highlight lines into named issue and witness lists.
Pull up a specific moment instantly while questioning a witness.
Show a judge, a jury, or a client the exact footage that matters.
Copy any selection as a clean, timestamped citation block.
Trial prep · State v. Doe
Witness list — cross-examination
Witness
04:11"I saw the whole thing from the corner."
05:46"He never reached for anything."
Issue list — suppression motion
Issue
02:31Search begins — no consent stated on record.
Show the jury — exhibits
Exhibit
03:02Miranda warning given — verbatim.
Everything else in the review workspace.
The tools that turn a transcript into courtroom work product — simple enough for a paralegal, included in every account.
Click to seek
Click any line, the video jumps there.
Transcript and player stay in sync. Click a timestamped line and the footage seeks to that exact moment — no scrubbing, no guessing.
Full-text search
Search the whole record — again and again.
Find a phrase, a name, or a key admission across both transcripts and jump straight to it. The transcript stays searchable for the life of the case — re-search it as many times as you need, as the facts change.
Event filter
Filter to just the moments that matter.
Show only the segments where, say, "Use of force" was detected. Review one category of event at a time, end to end.
Speaker rename
Rename speakers across the transcript.
The AI diarizes the recording into Speaker 1, Speaker 2, and so on. Rename them once — "Officer Reyes," "Complainant" — and it updates everywhere.
Inline editing
Edit any line — the original AI text is kept.
Correct a word the AI misheard. The original AI-generated text is always preserved, so there's a clear record of every change you made.
Highlight & bookmark
Mark the moments, build the lists.
Highlight key lines and bookmark them into issue and witness lists, then copy any selection as a timestamped citation block — ready for a motion or the stand.
Security
Footage this sensitive deserves serious infrastructure.
Bodycam video is evidence. BodyCam Defense runs on Google Cloud with the controls that handling that material requires.
HIPAA-eligible processing
Transcription runs on Google's Gemini 2.5 model via Vertex AI, which is HIPAA-eligible under Google Cloud's Business Associate Agreement. Your data stays inside the Google Cloud project boundary.
Encrypted at rest and in transit
Files are stored encrypted at rest with Google-managed keys, in a private bucket with no public access, and encrypted in transit over TLS.
Versioned for an audit trail
Storage versioning is on, so there's an audit trail for every file. Nothing about your footage is public, and nothing leaves the cloud project boundary.
Common questions
Straight answers, lawyer to lawyer.
Yes. Transcription runs on Google's Gemini 2.5 model via Vertex AI, which is HIPAA-eligible under Google Cloud's Business Associate Agreement — your data stays inside the Google Cloud project boundary. Files are stored encrypted at rest with Google-managed keys, in a private bucket with no public access, and encrypted in transit over TLS.
Your footage is held in a private Google Cloud storage bucket with no public access, encrypted at rest. Versioning is enabled, which gives you an audit trail of the file. The footage is processed only inside the Google Cloud project boundary for the purpose of producing your transcripts — it is not exposed publicly.
A typical recording transcribes in about one to three minutes. Very large, multi-hour files take a bit longer. Either way it is dramatically faster than reviewing footage by hand — manual review of one hour of bodycam routinely takes a defense attorney three to four hours.
Long recordings are fully supported. The underlying Gemini 2.5 model supports up to roughly 9.5 hours of audio per request, so hour-plus depositions, interview-room recordings, and extended bodycam files are well within range.
Yes — and that is by design. There is no special training. A paralegal can run the first pass: upload the file, attach your review questions, and build out the bookmarks, issue lists, and witness lists. What lands on your desk is organized work product — a transcript, the flagged moments, and lists that take you straight to what matters when you watch the footage. The legwork is delegated; the review, and the judgment, stay yours.
Yes. At upload you can enter up to five plain-language review questions — for example, "find where our client was first seen by police," "I want the first ten minutes of the interrogation," or "was a Miranda warning given." Alongside the two transcripts, BodyCam Defense flags every segment responsive to each question and gives the reviewer a one-click jump-bar to step straight through those moments. After the recording is processed you can also ask it follow-up questions at any time and get a timestamped answer back.
The audio transcript is diarized and verbatim, and the AI is instructed to mark cross-talk, non-speech audio, and [inaudible] passages rather than guess. The visual transcript is written to be factual and neutral — it describes what is visible, not intent or motive. It is still AI-generated: every screen carries a reminder to verify any quote before you rely on it.
Both audio and video: mp4, mov, webm, avi, mp3, wav, m4a, and more. Bodycam, dashcam, surveillance, and jail or interview-room footage are all handled the same way.
Yes. Any line can be edited inline, and you can rename speakers across the whole transcript. The original AI-generated text is always preserved, so there is a clear record of every change you made — useful when the accuracy of the record itself is at issue.
BodyCam Defense is a work-acceleration tool for licensed attorneys, not a substitute for your own review. It points you to the moments that matter and gives you a searchable, timestamped draft transcript — but you should always verify any quote against the footage before relying on it. The original AI text is preserved for every edit so the record stays transparent.
Hand off the footage. Take back your time.
See how BodyCam Defense turns an hour of footage into a working transcript, flagged moments, and trial-ready lists — try it on real clips, no signup.
UNIT 1138 · 00:34:12