Export a marked clip from case video
Long body-cam, interview, and surveillance files are often the exhibits you need, and also the files you cannot attach to a note or hand to a colleague as-is. exhibit.law lets you mark a start time in the player, choose 15, 30, or 60 seconds, and queue a trimmed MP4 for that matter.
The original video is not replaced. The clip is a separate download, built by the case worker, not in the browser tab. You can close the player — processing continues on the server and the result appears on Exports.
Mark the start, then queue a length
Open a video from Review, Timeline, Search, or Exhibits. Scrub to the moment you care about — the playhead is the start mark. Choose 15 seconds (the default), 30, or 60, then Export clip. Lengths outside those three options are refused; this is a bounded excerpt, not a free-form editor.
Audio-only exhibits do not get this control. If the mark is past the end of the file, or the chosen length would run off the end, the job fails instead of padding silence or inventing footage.
- Start time is the current playhead, rounded to the nearest second for the filename
- Only 15, 30, or 60 second clips
- The original exhibit and its transcript stay where they are
- Work runs on the server; leaving the tab does not cancel it
Download from Exports when it is ready
Clips appear on the case Exports page as soon as they are requested. Status moves from pending to processing to completed, or to failed with a reason. When a clip is completed, people with access to that list can download the MP4. A notification is sent to the person who requested it.
Filenames are generated, not typed. They follow the source video name plus the mark time, for example Deposition-Day-1-at-1m23s.mp4. Unsafe characters are folded to dashes. The video name is truncated only if the full filename would exceed a filesystem-safe length; the time suffix is kept. You can add a description on Exports as a human note. That note never becomes the download name.
- Exports is a case page, next to Timeline and Exhibits
- Refresh the list or wait for the ready notification
- Descriptions are optional labels, not filenames
- Delete removes the trimmed clip and its Exports row, not the source video
Who can request, see, and delete a clip
Anyone who can open the video in the active case can queue a clip — CaseAdmin, Member, Reader, and an Expert whose tag scope includes that exhibit. Exports is still case-scoped: a clip made in one matter is not listed or downloadable from another.
CaseAdmin, Member, and Reader see every clip for the active case. An Expert sees and can download only the clips they requested. CaseAdmin and Member may edit descriptions or delete any clip in the case; everyone else may change only their own. Deleting a clip is not deleting evidence — the source media row remains.
A clip is not a case export
This path hands over one short MP4 from one video. It is not the Obsidian vault, which is a CaseAdmin-only bulk rendering of the matter, and it is not a public share link. There is no guest URL, no email of the file, and no write-back into the original exhibit.
If you need the whole file, use Download on the exhibit. If you need a different window, mark a new start and queue another clip. Re-export rather than editing the first file in place.
Try it on footage you already have
Open a case you control, play a video, mark a moment, and export 15 seconds. Leave the page, then return to Exports when the notification arrives. Add a description if the filename is not enough context, and confirm the original exhibit is still in Exhibits.
Related reading: body-cam transcription, Evidence.com ZIP imports, and the Exhibits browser. For firm deployments or public-defender pricing, contact us.