Theater View
- Working with Nextpoint Theater
- Displaying Documents in Theater
- Viewing Deposition or Proceeding Video in Theater
- Enabling Flash Player to View Videos in Nextpoint
You can use Theater in Nextpoint Litigation to create document callouts and highlights. Using Nextpoint Theater, you are able to pull out particular sections of documents and highlight or underline key text. You can select multiple sections of a document and the tool will resize the text boxes. These documents can be shown through Nextpoint Theater to your audience or downloaded to be used in any off-line presentation tool.
How to access Theater
1. Open Theater from the main documents page
Go to MORE > Theater to launch a blank Theater window.
2. Open Theater when viewing search results
In grid view, click the 
and press the Theater icon
to view it in Theater. In the alternative, you can make sure the Theater icon is included in your Grid View Template and click on the icon to open up theater.
When in the Chron view, click the Theater icon 
next to a document to view it in Theater.
3) Open Theater when viewing a document
Go to Document options > View in Theater to launch a Theater window.
Creating Treatments in Theater
Creating a treatment begins in Theater with simple click, drag, and drop of your cursor to callout a section of the document. From here, you can further drag and drop your cursor to create highlight treatments, or hold shift + drag and drop in order to create a red underline.
Any treatments you create can be later saved, downloaded, recalled for presentation and/or exported in bulk.
Pro Tip: Use the hints from the image below and the provided keyboard shortcuts to create treatments in Theater. Any keyboard shortcuts listed below are also available via the question mark (?) drop-down when in Theater.
Document Hotkeys & Shortcuts
| Shift | Create an underline |
| W | Create a whiteout box |
| n, > | Go to next page |
| p, < | Go to previous page |
| f | Find by designation (e.g. CEX-10) |
| j | Jump to specific page |
| s | Save the current document treatment |
| 1-0 | Load a saved document treatment |
| z, u | Undo a callout/highlight |
| Z, y | Redo a callout/highlight |
| c | Clear all callouts |
| r | Reveal all callouts |
| d | Normal Resolution |
| D | Higher Resolution |
| Esc | Close the document/Clear a Screen |
| ? | Show/hide help |
| Shift + left or right arrow | Rotate image |
Saving Treatments in Theater
To save your treatment, type "s" after creating the treatment to open the dialogue box shown below. You can save your treatment to an Issue, Folder (great for witness prep), or None.
Click Save, and your treatment will be available for recall.
Recalling Saved Treatments
While in Theater
To view the saved treatments in Theater, click "saved treatments" to see the thumbnails of your treatments.
Clicking on a thumbnail will open the saved treatment. You can also simply type the number of the saved treatment to recall it in Theater.
While viewing an individual document
You can also recall a saved treatment when you are viewing an individual document.
- While viewing a document, click Document options > Saved treatments to open up a list of thumbnails of saved treatments.
- Click on a treatment thumbnail to launch it in Theater.
- Click the
to delete a treatment. - If you don't see a newly saved treatment, click the
to refresh the list.
Export Saved Treatments
When viewing search results
From any grid view list of results, click OPEN FILTERS and drop down the Work Product section. Once open, scroll to the section titled Treatment Label and select All Treatments, or only a certain folder or issue for which you would like to export treatments (e.g. John Smith Depo Prep).
From DOCUMENTS tab in Litigation
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Working with Nextpoint Theater
If your courtroom is equipped with an Internet connection, you can use Theater to present and annotate your documents.
Displaying Documents in Theater
Theater is a separate window that is launched from Litigation. The best way to present in Theater is to have a dual monitor setup, with your screen extended. This allows you to search for documents on your Primary Monitor, which only you can see, and display them on your Secondary Monitor, which will also display to the court.
You can either click on a 
icon for a document to display it in Theater, or enter the Exhibit Number in Theater itself to pull up the document.
Creating Treatments in Theater
Use the hints below to create treatments in Theater.
Saving Treatments in Theater
For an especially efficient presentation, pre-treat your trial exhibits prior to displaying them in court.
Create your callouts and highlights.
Type "s" to open the following dialogue box. You can save your treatment to an Issue (great for witness prep), a Folder or None. Click "Save", and your treatment will be available for recall.
Recalling Saved Treatments
To view the saved treatments in Theater, click "saved treatments" to see the thumbnails of your treatments.
Clicking on a thumbnail will open the saved treatment.
You can also simply type the number of the saved treatment to recall it in Theater.
For more information on creating document treatments, check out Creating Document Treatments in Theater.
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Displaying Documents in Theater
Full Screen Video Deposition Viewing
Launch Theater by clicking the Theater icon, 
, next to a deponent or proceeding name.
You can watch a deposition video from the beginning, or cue up to designations.
1. Click on the video to play from the beginning.
2. Click on designations to open a list of clips.
3. Click on a clip to play it.
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Viewing Deposition or Proceeding Video in Theater
Recent changes to web browsers have disabled Flash Player by default, which will stop you viewing video files in your browser. While Nextpoint works on a more permanent solution, here are some directions that will allow you to enable Flash Player.
Follow the guide below for your specific browser, Nextpoint recommends using Google Chrome.
Google Chrome
- Enter chrome://settings/content/flash in your browser.
- Under the Allow heading, click "Add".
- Enter the URL of your database, it will look like this:
https://<your-case>.nextpoint.com
(This URL can be found at the top of your browser when viewing any page in your Nextpoint database) - Click "Add" and you're all set!
Microsoft Edge
- Click the "three dot menu" on the top right of the browser.
- Navigate to the bottom of the fly-out and click "Settings".
- Towards the bottom click "View advanced settings".
- To enable Flash, simply move the slider to the "On" position.
Firefox
- Follow this guide from Adobe: https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/enabling-flash-player-firefox.html
- If you are unable to find the Plugin in Firefox, you'll need to download Flash Player for Firefox (https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer), then repeat the instructions in Part 1 to enable Flash Player.
Safari
- Follow this guide from Adobe: https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/enabling-flash-player-safari.html
- If you are unable to find the Plugin in Safari, you'll need to download Flash Player for Safari (https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer), then repeat the instructions in Part 1 to enable Flash Player.