Suffolk County Private Investigator - Video Time Stamps - A thing of the past

Some years ago, video timestamps were the normal procedure for documenting time and date that a video was taken. Anyone who has been questioned "on the stand" as to the possibility of the time stamp being altered, can attest to the fact that time stamps are antiquated and simply not usable today.
Video time stamps are only as accurate as the time that is manually set in the video camera. As many defense attorney's use a strategy to put doubt in a jury's mind or to attempt to discredit a witness, they have often questioned the accuracy of the time and date. Questions arise such as: Can the time be altered? Did YOU set the time? How do we know FOR A FACT that this was correct? etc, etc. Now we all know that it is simply a tactic to throw doubt into the minds of jurors. Answered truthfully and convincingly will usually counter the attempt to put doubt into the validity of your evidence. But some juries are taken by it and influenced. Someone experienced in court testimony (meaning hundreds of hours of actual testimony in a variety of hearings and court cases) can almost always turn the attack around and make the attorney look foolish. But a large majority of private investigators do not posses the experience.
We do not use time stamps. We haven't since our inception. Back in my NYPD days, we ran into this issue. It was easily remedied. We simply capture video of a cellular phone displaying the current date and time. Periodically during a video, the time and date will again be captured. Cell phone time can't be changed. Another method that has become of more use with recent technology, is to make a voice request for satellite time. This too, can not be altered. We use this for periodic time checks during video capture to maintain time continuity.
These methods kill the defense of altered time. It has been proven to work. I highly recommend it.