How to Use Realtime Controls in LiveLitigation

1. Joining the Event

Open the link in your email invitation and follow the prompts to confirm your email and check your camera and microphone. The full joining walkthrough is in How to Attend an eSuite Deposition.

2. Auto Scroll

The first control in the bar reads Scroll On while the transcript follows the court reporter live. Tap it to pause and read back (it changes to Scroll Off), and tap it again to catch up.

3. Customize Your View

Use the Font Settings to customize the transcript appearance:

• Display Mode: Choose between Light and Dark views.
• Bold Font: Toggle bold font.
• Double Space: Toggle double spacing.
• Show Timestamps: Toggle timestamps.
• Show Page Numbers: Toggle page and line numbers.
• Color Q and A: Show each Q. and A. label in bold and in color, so every question and answer stands out. Click the Q or A swatch to pick a different color.
• Highlight Color: Choose the color a line gets when you click it to add a note.
• Fit to Width: Size the text automatically so each line fills the panel width.
• Font Size: Increase or decrease text size.
• Font Family: Change font style.

These settings are remembered in the browser you are using, so they are still in place the next time you join from the same computer.

With Color Q and A on, you can see at a glance where each question and answer begins: questions in red and answers in blue, unless you choose other colors. It stays off until you turn it on, and only the label is colored, never the testimony.

4. Keyword Index

Use the Keyword Index to find terms in the transcript. The search finds all iterations of a word (e.g., "stream" finds "Streaming" and "streams").

Jump directly to the line of transcript where the keyword appears by clicking on the keyword and then a timestamp.

5. Adding Notes

Click or Tap on any line in the transcript to add a Realtime Note. This highlights the line for later reference.

Each note carries a Highlight color, so you can separate one line of enquiry from another as you go. Use Change Color to recolour a note you have already made.

Click or Tap the highlighted line again to edit the note, and use Delete to remove it.

6. Reviewing Notes

Click or Tap the Notes button to view a list of all your highlighted lines and annotations.

From here you can Download PDF to save just your notes, which is a separate document from the transcript itself and needs no export code. Clear All removes every note at once.

7. Save

Click Save in the control bar to download a PDF copy of the transcript.

Enter the Export Code provided by the court reporter to download the transcript.

8. Pop Out, Captions Only and Close

The three buttons in the top-right corner of the transcript change how it sits in the room. Pop out moves it into its own window, Captions only shrinks it to a strip of the latest lines, and Close transcript puts it away.

To bring a closed transcript back, click Transcript in the room header or choose it from Menu.