I need to build a mitigation package for the sentencing hearing.

A phone recording here, a treatment record there, a school transcript buried in another folder, a handwritten letter you're pretty sure is in the car. Half of your prep time goes to just remembering what you have.

The interviews are usually the roughest part. Someone sat down with a phone or a camera and talked for forty minutes, long pauses, rambling, a dog barking in the background. You can’t hand it to a judge as is, and cutting it into something watchable eats a lot of your time, especially without video editing help on staff.

Get the recordings and the paperwork into one project

Upload the interviews, the records, and the letters into a single Reduct project. Recordings and documents live side by side, so when you're building the package, you're pulling them from one place.

Reduct reads PDFs, Word docs, images, spreadsheets, and most other formats, and you can drag a whole folder in at once instead of uploading file by file.

Search and label across interviews and documents together

Reduct transcribes each interview as soon as it's uploaded, so you're reading a transcript to find the part worth using.

The search bar at the top of the project runs across both transcripts and documents at once. Search a keyword or a name, and you'll get every mention across both at once in the same results.

Highlight the moment that matters, in a transcript or on the page of a PDF, and add a label: childhood, employment, treatment, community support, whatever categories fit your client's story. A highlighted line in a letter gets labeled the same way as a highlighted line in a transcript, and both show up under that label.

Filter the project by label and see, at a glance, what each theme has and what it's missing.

Turn the highlighted moments into reels

Once you've highlighted the strongest moments in one interview, pull them into a reel. Combine the highlighted moments into one clean sequence, and caption it so it holds up even where the audio is rough. What started as a 40-minute phone recording becomes a 2-minute clip that actually says something.

Do that for each interview, and you end up with one clean reel per person, childhood friend, treatment counselor, sister, each already trimmed to what matters.

Then pull the strongest moment from each of those reels into a final reel, one cohesive mitigation video instead of five separate files a judge has to sit through individually. Order it the way you want the story to land: childhood first, then treatment, then who's standing behind your client today.

Rename the final reel to something you'll recognize later, download it, or share it with co-counsel for a final look before the hearing.