Bexar County Criminal Defense
Sync the cameras and export a clip
Open a matter’s footage on the multi-camera wall, let the wall clock line every angle up on the same second, scrub to the moment that matters, and export the synced clip into the court-ready report.
Before you start
You need a matter whose evidence has already been read in one controlled run, so the clips carry their transcripts, captions, and timestamps. Multi-camera sync works on what that run produced: the device clocks the cameras encoded into the files. If a clip has not been read yet, read it first, because the wall clock has nothing to line up until the run has done its pass.
1. Open the matter on the multi-camera wall
From the matter, open the multi-camera view. The clips that cover one incident, the four body cameras, the dash cam, the 911 recording, stack onto a single wall and share one timeline. Instead of opening six files in six windows and guessing how they relate, you are looking at one moment from every angle the State recorded it from.
2. The wall clock lines up the angles
The Machine lines the clips up on the wall clock, the actual time of day each recording was happening, by reading the timestamps the cameras encoded into the files themselves. This is deterministic alignment against the device clock, not a guess. Once it lands, a single playhead moves all the feeds together, so the fourth officer’s camera and the dash cam and the dispatch audio sit on the same second.
3. Read the four clocks and trust the sync flags
Every clip carries its time four ways. Tape time is your position in the file. Elapsed time is the running clock the player counts. Room time is the wall clock, the real time of day the camera was filming. Countdown is the footage still ahead. Where two devices disagree, or a clock drifted or was never set, the run does not paper over it: that clip is flagged amber for low-confidence sync and tells you by how much, so you know exactly where the timeline is solid and where a human has to look.
4. Scrub to the moment that matters
Move the single playhead to the moment the case turns on, the stop, the gap where no warning was given, the second the stories stop matching. Because the feeds are locked to the wall clock, scrubbing to one moment scrubs to it everywhere at once. You can watch the officer’s account and the dash cam and the dispatch audio collide on the same second, and the transcript and captions move right along with the picture.
5. Mark the in and out points for the clip
Set the start and end of the stretch you want to keep. The selection carries its full identity with it: the wall-clock window it covers, the running duration, the matter and cause number it belongs to, and which camera angles are included. You are not exporting a loose video file with no story. You are exporting a labeled piece of the record.
6. Export the synced clip into the report
Export the marked clip into the matter’s court-ready report. It carries its durations three ways at once: the running clock as D:HH:MM:SS, the plain-language version a jury hears as one hour and forty minutes, and the wall-clock time the recording was actually happening. The plain language is for the jury, the running clock is for the player, and the wall clock is for lining one piece of evidence against another at the bench. The clip lands in the report indexed and hyperlinked, tied to the second of footage it came from, so a judge or a prosecutor can open it and check it against the original Axon media.
What you have now
You have a single moment told from every angle the State recorded it, lined up on the wall clock, scrubbed to the second the case turns on, and exported into the matter’s report with the three time formats and a hyperlink back to the original media. The footage that used to be six files no defender had the hours to reconcile is now one verifiable exhibit, ready to carry into the Article 39.14 demand and the motion the Issue Spotter drafts next.
The whole machine
Ten logins down to two
One subscription stands in for the stack a defense firm usually stitches together, so the practice runs on two things it already trusts: Google Workspace, where the files and matters live, and The IMC Machine, where the matter runs. LawPay and QuickBooks, the money rail, stay where they are, fed by the Machine. Casework, evidence, motions, vouchers, marketing, and events, in one place.
San Antonio and Bexar County. The Machine is built for here first. For another city, county, or region, the build-out is custom and carries its own setup fee.
