Tools for the work, not the brochure.
Calculators and references built by working legal videographers, for working legal videographers. Free, no signup, and everything runs in your browser.
Eight calculators and references, built for the way the work actually runs.
Every tool runs in your browser — nothing you type is sent anywhere or stored on our servers. Five are free to anyone, no signup. Three come with Guild membership.
Add up every media unit and get total run time, decimal hours, and a summary block ready to paste into your certificate or invoice.
Open tool →Duration plus format equals gigabytes — across every format from H.264 and HEVC to XAVC, DNxHD, and ProRes 422 HQ. Then flip it: how many hours fit on the card in your bag.
Open tool →Timecode, frames, and real elapsed time at ten frame rates — with correct 29.97 and 59.94 drop-frame math, plus timecode addition and subtraction.
Open tool →Fill in the caption and get the five statements FRCP 30(b)(5) requires — opening, off, back on, new media unit, and closing. Copy to your phone or print for the kit.
Member access →Two dozen rules of civil procedure and evidence that govern legal video, each with a plain-English summary and a line on why it matters to you. Searchable.
Open tool →Fixed costs, hourly costs, and overhead against what you actually bill — with profit, margin, and effective hourly rate modeled across the length of the day.
Member access →Run the Guild's 1-2-3 archival rule against your real volume and see what seven years of retention costs in drives, cloud storage, and dollars per job.
Member access →Before you promise same-day delivery from the hotel: how long that upload really takes, when it finishes, and what it would take on a better connection.
Open tool →A designation clip-list builder, a pre-deposition gear checklist, a state-by-state rule finder — tell us which one would save you the most time.
Tell us →These tools are static pages. Every calculation runs in your browser using JavaScript that ships with the page — no case captions, deponent names, rates, or cost figures are transmitted to AGCV or to anyone else. You can open any of them, disconnect from the network, and they will still work. The only thing that ever leaves your browser is an email address you deliberately type into the newsletter form.
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