Liberty Court Recorder - Overview Liberty Court Recorder is the foundational platform within the Liberty Recording ecosystem, purpose-built to capture and preserve the official court record. The system supports discrete recording of each microphone and video source, ensuring that every participant - whether physically present or appearing remotely - is captured on an independent channel. This channel isolation is critical for accurate review, playback, transcription, and long-term evidentiary use. In addition to audio and video, all recorded content - including annotations, bookmarks, attachments, and metadata - is written into a single, continuous recording file. This unified file structure simplifies storage and playback workflows, reduces the risk of data loss, and enables recordings to be securely reviewed and played back across common desktop and mobile platforms using Liberty playback tools, without requiring proprietary hardware.

Key recording functionality includes:


• Simultaneous dual - write to secondary storage locations, with optional cloud integration
• Up to 32 audio channels with visual level monitoring
• Optional multi-channel video capture
• Automatic file naming using case, courtroom, date, and user metadata
• Confidence monitoring with real-time alerts for low or absent audio
• Secure sealing and unsealing of recording segments

The entire platform has been designed and vetted to support a wide range of operating models. Today, Liberty Court Recorder is deployed in over 10,000 courtrooms worldwide, from high-volume courts handling hundreds of cases per day to courts that conduct only occasional proceedings.

Integrated, Not Fragmented

Liberty Court Recorder is hardware-agnostic and designed to integrate with existing courtroom infrastructure, including microphones, DSPs, AV routing systems, and portable recording kits. The same recording application and workflow can be deployed on a single laptop for mobile or temporary use, or scaled into a fully integrated, multi-room courtroom environment - without changing how court staff interact with the system.

This architectural approach also allows courts to expand functionality over time without changing how recordings are captured, managed, or preserved. These extensions include live streaming of proceedings, browser-based centralized monitoring and remote control, integrated virtual and hybrid courtroom functionality, and speech-to-text services delivered either in real time or through post-recording batch processing.

Because these capabilities are implemented as extensions of the recorder rather than separate systems, audio, video, annotations, and transcription data remain synchronized within the same recording file. Courts can enable only the functionality they require while preserving a consistent process for capturing and managing the official record.

Proven at Scale

Liberty Court Recorder has been developed and refined since 2004 through direct collaboration with courts, court administrators, and IT teams. Its deployment footprint spans municipal, state, and federal courts across multiple jurisdictions and is structured to align with how courts actually operate - before, during, and after proceedings.

Court staff can prepare for hearings in advance by importing docket information, configuring recording profiles, and selecting predefined templates. These tools reduce manual entry, improve consistency, and help ensure that recordings are properly labeled from the outset.

While recording is active, court staff can create real-time, time-stamped annotations and docket-style bookmarks that are embedded directly into the recording file. Previously recorded portions of the hearing can be played back without interrupting the active recording, allowing judicial review or clarification while preserving a continuous record. At the same time, visual indicators and configurable alerts provide immediate feedback when audio levels fall below acceptable thresholds, enabling staff to address issues before the integrity of the record is compromised.

After proceedings conclude, recordings are immediately available for authorized review, playback, export, or archival. Embedded metadata and bookmarks allow users to locate relevant portions of the record quickly, without manually scanning lengthy files. This same metadata can also be indexed within Windows, enabling advanced search and filtering capabilities for traditional file browsing.

Liberty Recorder can record from one to thirty-two discrete channels, making it the ideal solution to address the needs of small hearings, depositions, courtrooms or larger meetings and assemblies. Liberty Recorder is available in hardware bundles that include the appropriate multi-channel sound card to address your recording requirements. Options also include a laptop configuration that allows the mobile user to create multi-channel recordings.

Liberty Court Recorder features include: The ability to record multiple audio channels, allowing for isolated audio channel playback. The ability to record multiple, completely independent video channels, as seen in the screen capture on the right, into the same recording file as the audio and notes are saved. As many as eight independent video channels may be recorded. Support for IP cameras from makers like Sony and Axis. Support for playback recording files on Windows and MAC computers, Android devices and Apple iPads. The ability to Stream the recording to a media server for further, real-time re-distribution. The ability to "Seal" the recording, in real-time, with the click of the mouse. Automatic Gain Control (AGC) and Noise Reduction for the clearest possible audio playback. The ability to attach documents to the recording file. A visual display of the audio recording levels, during both recording and playback. A real-time alert that indicates that audio volumes have fallen below a pre-determined level. Confidence monitoring of the audio recording to allow for listening to the recording while it is being captured. The ability to playback the audio and video, while at the same time, continuing to record the proceedings. A Bookmark feature that allows bookmarks, or cue stops, with text notes, to be imbedded into the audio file. Subsequently, the bookmarks allow you to easily re-cue to a particular point within the recording. A file "Mirror" feature that simultaneously saves the recording file to a network drive or a CD or DVD drive. The Liberty Court Recorder is compatible with the Windows 10 and Windows 11 Operating Systems.

Liberty Court Recorder can capture multiple independent video streams.

Cue Points and Associated Annotations

This screen capture shows how the Liberty Court Recorder can be used to monitor the recording levels and add bookmarks into a recording. Text notes may be assigned to the recording file as "bookmarks". These bookmarkes establish cue points within the file that may be accessed instantly for playback purposes.

Documents may be attached to the recording file and portions of the file may be sealed with the Seal bookmark facility. Audio levels may be monitored in real time and bookmarks with associated text may also be saved within the file.

Records Multiple Independent Video Streams

The Liberty Court Recorder may capture and record multiple video streams of the same courtroom. The screen capture below shows a recording with four independent video captures.

One, two or four independent video channels may be captured
and saved into the recording file.

Tutorial Video on the Liberty Court Recorder

Watch the Quickstart Guide / Tutorial Video linked below about the Liberty Court Recorder.

The Liberty Player

The Liberty Player provides playback facilities for your recording files. It is available as a no cost download by following the link below. The Player lets you select and listen to individual channels in a recording or a mix of several or all of the channels. The Player runs on any PC with Windows 7 or later that has standard audio capabilities. An optional foot pedal for controlling playback is available, please contact High Criteria for details.

Download the Liberty Player Program for Windows

The Liberty Player for Windows is a no-cost program that may be downloaded by following this link: Liberty Player for Windows.

After you have downloaded and installed the Liberty Player, you may wish to review the Knowledge Base to review how to configure and use the program.

Liberty Court Player for Mac OS 10.6 and Later

The Liberty Player for Mac OS 10.6 or later provides audio playback facilities for your dcr recording files on a Mac OS 10.6 or later computer. It is available as a no cost download from the link below. An optional foot pedal for controlling playback is available, please contact High Criteria for details.

The Liberty Court Player for Mac is a no-cost program that may be downloaded by following this link: Liberty Court Player for Mac.

Contact High Criteria for more Information

More details on the Liberty Recorder program can be obtained by contacting High Criteria at
905-886-7771 & press 1 or at sales@libertyrecording.com.

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