▶Valu-Present
What’s new in Valu-Present
Every update and the tools it added — and where to find them in the app. Newest first. After each update the app shows the same list.
0.9.9.263 — Rename on marking: four clear choices October 27, 2026
When a file is marked, it can keep its name, take the full exhibit name, Exhibit and the number, or the short form — set once for every job, changed for one job when needed.
Changed
| When a file is marked, rename it: Don't rename · The full exhibit (Plaintiff's Exhibit 11) · Exhibit and number (Exhibit 11) · Short form (EX11, PX11, DX11). The old name and the short form still call the file up; Unmark puts the old name back; never two files with the same name. | App Settings → General (every job) · Job Settings → Marking (this job only) |
Minor
| Minor fixes and enhancements. | |
0.9.9.262 — The ID when a file is marked · sharing stays live October 27, 2026
Each job decides what a marked file's ID becomes — and two files never end up with the same ID. Sharing the Display keeps the computer awake.
New
| Job Settings → Marking → When a file is marked, its ID: keep it · becomes the exhibit (EX11) · exhibit in front (EX11 Invoice). Defendant's → DX, Plaintiff's → PX. Unmark puts the old ID back. | Job Settings → General → Marking |
Important fix
| Marking never makes a second file with the same ID: if another file is already EX11 (a client named theirs that), the marked one keeps its ID and a note says so. | Mark (F9) |
Changed
| While the Display is shared, the computer and Valu-Present stay awake (no App Nap, no sleep), so the session stays live as long as the app is open — minimised or behind other windows too. | Share the Display |
Minor
| Minor fixes and enhancements. | |
0.9.9.261 — Share the Display: viewers stay in when they switch tabs October 27, 2026
A viewer who switches to another tab or app and comes back is joined again by itself — no more "connection lost" and Rejoin.
Important fix
| Share the Display: browsers slow down or freeze a tab in the background, which stopped its heartbeat and the session dropped the viewer. Coming back now reconnects quietly with the same name (a short "Reconnecting…" note); only if the presenter is really gone does the page say so. | the viewer page (upload the website zip) and the app |
Minor
| Minor fixes and enhancements. | |
0.9.9.260 — Letter exhibits · sync without the questions · presenter names remembered October 27, 2026
Exhibits can be lettered (K, L, M…) and the next one follows on; syncing finds the testimony itself and only asks when it isn't sure; the lower-third names come back like the sticker names.
New
| Exhibit letters: type K (or C-1) as the next number in the sticker setup — the next sticker is L (C-2), and so on through Z, AA, AB. | Exhibit Marking → click the sticker → Next number |
| Lower third: the Title line and the Name remember what you typed before (▾), like the sticker names. | Job Settings → Clear screen |
Changed
| Sync to the video: when the start and end of the testimony are clear and the transcript is clean, it syncs at once (a note says which lines). The window only opens when the start or end isn't clear — pick them in the transcript. No more boxes per video. | Transcript ☰ → Sync to the video |
| Sync check → Accept: once a sync is accepted, the sure / unsure dots leave the transcript (hand stamps and untimed lines still show). ☰ → Show sync confidence dots brings them back. | Transcript ☰ |
Minor
| Minor fixes and enhancements. | |
0.9.9.259 — The synced transcript as a .mdb · Remove a deposition from Files & Exhibits October 27, 2026
Every sync also writes the synced transcript database (.mdb, the file VALU-SYNC makes) into the job folder, so the sync can be used in any other job or program; and a deposition can be removed from the Files & Exhibits list.
New
| After a sync, the synced transcript is also saved as <title>.mdb in the job folder (transcripts) — Info / MPEGS / Main, readable by VALU-SYNC and the players that read that format. Written on Mac, Windows and Linux alike. | automatic after Sync to the video |
| Save the synced transcript as .mdb… — anywhere you like (for another job, another program, or to send on). | Transcript panel ☰ · right-click the deposition in Files & Exhibits |
| Remove this deposition… in the Files & Exhibits row menu (its clips, designations and clip slides go with it; the transcript file in the job folder and the video are not deleted). | right-click the deposition |
Minor
| Minor fixes and enhancements. | |
0.9.9.258 — Bug reports that carry the evidence October 27, 2026
Help → Report a bug now writes a report file — your words, the Minutes, the last errors from the app, your computer and settings — so a problem seen in a courtroom can be fixed from the report alone.
New
| Report a bug writes a report on your Desktop (what you typed, the Minutes of the open case, the last 50 errors, displays, settings — never passwords, documents or the share passcode) and shows it; drag it into the email that opens. | Help → Report a bug… |
| Errors are kept in errors.log across restarts, so a crash on the day is still in the next report. | automatic |
Minor
| Minor fixes and enhancements. | |
0.9.9.257 — Your own viewer page · gentler Esc · faster saves on huge jobs October 26, 2026
The Share the Display viewer page is hosted by you, on any web host; Esc no longer closes the Display by default; saving a million-page job is instant.
Changed
| Share the Display: there is no built-in viewer page any more. Save the 4 viewer page files, put them on a web host of your choice (it must be https), and type the address — then Anywhere (internet) sharing is on. Same room sharing needs nothing: the app serves the page itself. | App Settings → Sharing the Display |
| Esc: one press clears the Counsel Table (and the Display shows the clear screen). It no longer closes the Display on a second press — close it with LIVE off or the Display window. The old twice-to-close choice is still there if you want it. | App Settings → Presenting → Esc · Job Settings |
Important fix
| Saving sends only what changed. A job with a million pages saves in a blink instead of a second, with no pause in the app. | Everywhere — automatic |
Minor
| Minor fixes and enhancements. | |
0.9.9.256 — Audit fixes · the User Manual on the website October 26, 2026
A full pass through every tool before 1.0: a few things tidied, and the whole manual is now on danielholmstock.com.
Important fix
| A witness asking for control of the Display is never hidden: the request banner now sits above the Clip Maker, dialogs and menus. | Share the Display → ✋ request banner |
Changed
| Reminders like “Enter the client name first” or “Not presenting” fade on their own; only real problems stay on screen until you click them. | Everywhere |
New
| The complete User Manual, the 45 how-to guides, the Key Card and every shortcut (Windows and Mac keys) are on the website, searchable, with a page for viewers of Share the Display. | Help → User Manual · danielholmstock.com → Valu-Present → User Manual |
Minor
| Minor fixes and enhancements (pop-out and share-host windows carry a content security policy; the same-room viewer no longer logs a missing favicon). | |
0.9.9.255 — Share the Display: smoother control for the witness October 23, 2026
The witness sees when they're waiting, granted or denied, and can turn and scroll pages with the keys and the mouse wheel.
Changed
| Request control: the witness's page says “Waiting for the tech…” until you answer, then “Control granted” (green) or “Request denied” (red, they can ask again). | Viewer page → ✋ Request control |
New
| Keys for the witness with control: → / PgDn / Space next page, ← / PgUp back, Home / End first / last page, + / − zoom, 0 whole page. When zoomed, ↑ / ↓ scroll the page. | Viewer page (upload the new viewer page) |
Important fix
| Zoomed in, the mouse wheel (and trackpad) now scrolls the page smoothly — up, down and sideways (Shift + wheel). On the whole page a firm scroll still turns the page. | Viewer page → when the witness has control |
Minor
| Minor fixes and enhancements. | |
0.9.9.254 — Resume next time — like Safari October 23, 2026
No more question when a job opens: one tick decides.
Changed
| Resume next time: tick it in the bottom bar (or the main menu) and every job opens where you left off — the tables, what each shows, and the session clock carries on. Not ticked: the job opens clean. The Welcome back question is gone. Nothing goes on the Display until you press LIVE or SHOW. | Bottom bar → ☐ Resume next time · Menu → Resume next time |
Minor
| Minor fixes and enhancements. | |
0.9.9.253 — Share the Display: split screens for the witness · sync engine 2.0.18 October 23, 2026
With two documents on the Display, the witness picks which side to turn — or turns both. Syncing follows VALU-SYNC 2.0.18's rules.
New
| Split Display: when the Display shows two (or more) documents, the witness's tool bar shows Turning: Left | Right (or 1 2 3 4). The pane they are turning is lit in gold on their picture, and Page ▶, ◀ Page, zoom and Go to page work on that side only. All ◀ / All ▶ turn every pane together. | Viewer page → tool bar (upload the new viewer page) |
| TEXT NOT FOUND IN AUDIO (amber): 5 or more spoken lines in a row that are in the transcript but not heard in the video (often an off-the-record call) are left without a timecode — never guessed — and listed. Click it to see the lines; it clears once you stamp them. A video with no sound at all is still red. | Transcript → Sync result |
Changed
| Deposition sync uses the VALU-SYNC 2.0.18 rules: silence never decides "no audio" — pauses, exhibit reading and Zoom's gated audio are normal and no line near them loses its timecode. Silence must last 60 s before the engine skips it, and a short "Yes." in a quiet stretch is heard. | Add → A Deposition… · Sync |
Important fix
| Jobs synced before this version are listened to again once on the next sync (the old silence rules could skip a short answer). | Transcript → Sync |
Minor
| Minor fixes and enhancements. | |
0.9.9.252 — Share the Display: upright tool bar for the witness October 23, 2026
The witness's tool bar stands upright on the left by default, and its size buttons say what they size.
Changed
| The witness's tool bar is upright on the left edge, under the top bar, so it covers less of the page. ⟲ lays it across the bottom. In a very short window it lies across by itself. | Viewer page → when the witness has control |
| Bar − / Bar + (were A− / A+) size the tool bar only — the page zoom is − / Fit page / +. | Viewer page → tool bar |
Minor
| Minor fixes and enhancements. | |
0.9.9.251 — Share the Display: fits any browser · floating tools · type your own role October 23, 2026
The viewer page fits small laptop screens, the witness's tools float where they want them, and the people list is alphabetical.
Changed
| The viewer page fits the viewer's browser: the top bar wraps onto a second line instead of cutting buttons off, and the picture resizes to the space left. | Viewer page (upload the new viewer page to your web host) |
| Everyone watching is listed in alphabetical order, in the viewer's people list and in the app. | Viewer page → 👥 · Display window → Share the Display |
New
| Floating tool bar for the witness: page, zoom and Go to page in one bar over the picture that always fits inside the browser window (it shrinks to fit a small screen). ⠿ drag it anywhere, ⟲ turn it upright, A− / A+ size it, ▾ tuck it away (double-click ⠿ to put it back at the bottom). | Viewer page → when the witness has control |
| Role: pick one from the list or type your own ("Custodian of Records"), when joining or later at the top. | Viewer page → Role |
Minor
| Minor fixes and enhancements. | |
0.9.9.250 — Outline (BETA): the attorney's outline, with its documents in order October 22, 2026
Add the attorney's outline and every document it mentions becomes a chip you click to show — in order, beside History.
New
| Outline (BETA): add the attorney's outline — Word, PDF, email (.eml), text, or pasted. Every Tab, exhibit number, ID, Bates number or file name it mentions becomes a chip: “Tab 1 – introduce” gives a Tab 1 chip, “Tab 1, page 3” a chip that opens page 3. Click a chip and it goes on the table you're on (in LIVE it shows right away); right-click for Open on current table or Open in new table. ◀ Back / Next ▶ step through the outline's documents in order, and shown ones get a green ✓. | Add → Outline… (the Outline panel opens under History) |
| Deposition or trial outline: a deposition outline is one witness, section by section. A trial outline follows the order of witnesses (“Plaintiff calls Dr. Ortiz”, “Cross of Hale”): the panel shows the witness now and their exhibits, with Next witness ▶. A ✓ by the name means they're on the job's witness list. | Add → Outline… → Deposition outline / Trial outline |
| Anything the outline mentions that matches no file (say “Exhibit 44”) shows in orange — click it and choose the file. Valu-Present remembers the link; the outline itself is never changed. | Outline panel → orange chip |
Minor
| Minor fixes and enhancements. | |
0.9.9.249 — Share the Display: fit to page and HI-RES October 22, 2026
Viewers see the page as large as their window allows, and can turn on HI-RES for sharper text.
New
| Fit to page: viewers see just the page and its label bar, as large as their browser window allows — more than twice the size in a tall window. A Page / Screen switch at the top shows the whole Display when they want it; side-by-side, video and slides always show the whole Display. | Viewer's top bar → Page / Screen |
| HI-RES: a viewer can turn on sharper pages (the Display drawn 2560 wide just for them). If their connection cannot keep up, it turns itself off and tells them; everyone else keeps the standard picture. | Viewer's top bar → HI-RES |
Minor
| Minor fixes and enhancements. | |
0.9.9.248 — Share the Display: one-click links, zoom for the witness, virtual display October 22, 2026
Invitations are one paste, the witness can zoom and scroll, and the session code lasts the day.
New
| One-click links: the invitation link carries the passcode (option, on by default), so a click plus their name gets them in. One invitation box with Copy invitation — the click-to-join link, plus the plain link, session code and passcode for anyone who types them. Pastes cleanly into Zoom chat or an email. | Display window → Share the Display |
| Witness control adds Zoom in / out, Fit page, and the mouse wheel: scroll a zoomed page up and down, or a firm scroll turns the page. Anything you do still takes control back. | |
| Same code and passcode for the job for 24 hours: close Valu-Present by accident and share again — the invitation still works, and viewers get a Rejoin. After 24 hours (or New code) it is forgotten. The passcode is kept in your computer's keychain only. | |
| Viewers see your own clear screen (logo, presenter name) when nothing is up, with a small “Waiting for the next document…” tag. | |
| Save viewer page files… (App Settings → Sharing the Display): the three files and a how-to, for a firm that hosts the page on its own web server or GitHub. | |
Changed
| “Also open a separate app window” is now Create virtual display, and it shows as its own tile next to your monitors. Sync a Deposition is marked BETA. | |
Minor
| Minor fixes and enhancements. | |
0.9.9.247 — Share the Display: video with sound · witness control on request October 22, 2026
Clips play with sound in the viewer's browser, and the witness can ask to turn the pages.
New
| Share the Display: video and audio clips play live in the viewer's browser, with sound. Each viewer has their own sound button, volume and mute (sound starts after one click — browsers require it). Documents stay as sharp still pages. On a relay connection viewers see still pictures and a note. | Display window → Share the Display |
| Request control: a witness taps ✋ Request control in their browser; a banner at the top of the app shows their name with Allow and Deny. Control means turning pages and Go to page ___. Marking (pen, highlight, arrow) is a separate Mark tick per person. Anything you do to the Display takes control back at once, and the witness is told to ask again. Everything is logged. | |
| Viewers can change their role after joining (top of their screen); everyone's list updates. | |
| App Settings → Sharing the Display: the viewer page address (empty = the Valu-Present page; a firm can use its own copy on another GitHub or its own website) and an optional own relay. | App Settings → Presenting → Sharing the Display |
Changed
| Viewers see “Waiting for the next document…” instead of a black screen when nothing is on the Display. | |
Minor
| Minor fixes and enhancements. | |
0.9.9.246 — Simpler sticker settings · Share panel pops out October 22, 2026
The sticker settings follow the sticker from top to bottom, and the Share panel can sit on its own monitor.
Changed
| Sticker settings in the order of the sticker: Type, Layout, Lettering, Header, Witness name, Under the line, Color. The line under the sticker is always your Entity name (the court reporter choices are gone), and the witness name is no longer put in front of the designation. | |
New
| Share the Display: the Who's watching panel pops out (↗) into its own window, so it can sit on another monitor. Closing that window puts it back on the bottom bar. | Share panel → ↗ |
Important fix
| Share the Display: closing Valu-Present tells every viewer the session ended. If the computer drops off (asleep, network lost), the viewer page says so within about half a minute instead of showing the last picture. | |
Minor
| Minor fixes and enhancements. | |
0.9.9.245 — Sharing in the Display window · Finals folder up front October 22, 2026
Turn on sharing where you pick the Display, and choose where marked exhibits go at the top of the sticker settings.
Changed
| Share the Display now lives in the Display window: two switches — Same room (this network) and Anywhere (internet). Turn one on and the session code, passcode, links and Copy invitation appear right there; each can be turned on or off while people watch. Who's watching (Control / Remove) is one click away. | Display button on the top bar |
| Exhibit sticker settings: where marked exhibits are saved is now at the top, with Choose folder… and Open buttons. The two rarely used options (name on party exhibits, place on any page) are gone — stickers go on the first page, as before. | |
Minor
| Minor fixes and enhancements. | |
0.9.9.244 — Share the Display: viewer page built in October 22, 2026
The internet link works out of the box — nothing to set up.
Changed
| Share the Display: the internet link now uses the Valu-Present viewer page (holmstockd.github.io/watch) out of the box, so every tech can share right away. A firm that wants its own copy of the viewer page can host it and set the address under Share the Display → Advanced. | Menu → Remote → Share the Display… |
Minor
| Minor fixes and enhancements. | |
0.9.9.243 — Share the Display in any browser · resume where you left off October 22, 2026
Judge, counsel and the witness can watch the Display live in a web browser — same room or anywhere — and a job opens where you left it.
New
| Share the Display (BETA): judge, counsel and the witness watch the Display live in any web browser — nothing to install. In the same room they use a link to your computer; anywhere else, a link plus a session code and passcode. Each person signs in with a full legal name (role optional, e.g. Witness, Counsel for Plaintiff, Judge) and everyone sees who is watching. Only the Display is sent — never your private tables. The picture goes computer to computer, encrypted; if a network blocks that, it goes through the relay (slower). | Menu → Remote → Share the Display… |
| Allow control: give one person control to turn pages and draw (pen, highlight, arrow) on the Display. Their marks show on the Display, your Counsel Table and every viewer, and History records them by name. Take control back or remove someone at any time. | Share the Display panel → Control |
| Right-click a document or a page → Open in a new table: it opens on its own table, private until you press LIVE or SHOW. | |
| Welcome back: when you open a job it offers to pick up where you left off — every table as you left it (pages, callouts, highlights, names, colours) and the tab you were on. Nothing goes on the Display until you press LIVE or SHOW. Start clean is one click. | |
| Session time carries on: continue the last session's clock when you reopen the job, or start a new session. The bottom bar shows this session and the job's total time. | Bottom bar · Session |
| Import coding from a review platform (BETA): Concordance .DAT, Summation .DII, Opticon .OPT or a CSV / tab list. Each record is matched to your documents by Bates (page Bates, file name or Bates range); a preview shows what matched before anything changes. The coding shows in Exhibit Details, Find searches it, and the Coding chip filters by any field (Custodian, Issues, Privilege…). The .OPT can fill in missing page Bates numbers. | Add → Coding from a review platform… |
Minor
| Minor fixes and enhancements. | |
0.9.9.242 — Sticker preview matches · F4 names stand out October 21, 2026
The Exhibit Marking preview shows the sticker you will actually mark, and page names you gave with F4 are pure white.
Important fix
| The sticker in the Exhibit Marking panel (Next · click to change) and the size preview now match the sticker Mark puts on the page — Classic layout, header, lettering and what goes under the line. It was still drawing the old black-band sticker. | |
Changed
| Page names you give with F4 are pure white and bold (pure black on light themes), shown or not — they are your markers in the document. File names stay silver. | |
Minor
| Minor fixes and enhancements. | |
0.9.9.241 — Shown exhibits: green ID, names keep their look October 21, 2026
Once a page has been shown, its ID turns green; the name stays silver, or white if you named it.
Changed
| Shown pages and documents: only the ID turns green, with a green ✓ after the name. The name keeps its own look — a file name stays silver, a page you named with F4 stays white and bold. | |
Minor
| Minor fixes and enhancements. | |
0.9.9.240 — Tables: Ctrl/⌘ shortcuts · quieter tabs October 21, 2026
Switch Tables with Ctrl+1 … Ctrl+6 (⌘1 … ⌘6 on Mac). Tabs you are not on are just a label.
Changed
| Switch Tables with Ctrl+1 … Ctrl+6 on Windows and Linux, ⌘1 … ⌘6 on Mac — like browser tabs. 📌 Home table is Ctrl/⌘+9. Case File is back on Alt+3. | Settings → Shortcuts |
| A tab you are not on shows only its label — the exhibit, the page and its Bates number — with no buttons. Click it and it opens to full width with LIVE, SHOW and ✕. Its number still turns red when that table is LIVE and gold when it is shown. | |
Important fix
| The LIVE button on top (and F5) works on the table you are on: with another table on the Display, it now puts this table LIVE. It used to turn LIVE off and close the Display. SHOW (F6) works the same way. | |
Minor
| Minor fixes and enhancements. | |
0.9.9.201 — Tables: order, colour, clearer tabs October 21, 2026
Drag Tables into any order, give them a colour, and always see which one you are on.
Changed
| Drag a table's tab left or right to put the tables in any order (or right-click → Move left / Move right). Alt+1 … Alt+6 follow the new order. | Counsel Table tabs |
| The tab you are on stands out: taller, joined to the page, a bright bar on top and a bold white name. The other tabs are quieter. No more tab animation. | |
New
| Colour a table: right-click its tab → Color… (the same colours as Case File folders). The colour shows along the top of the tab and on its number. | Right-click a tab → Color… |
Important fix
| LIVE on an empty table works: the Display clears, and whatever you call up on that table shows at once (it said “Nothing in the viewer to send”). | |
Minor
| Minor fixes and enhancements. | |
0.9.9.200 — Tables · new exhibit sticker options October 21, 2026
Work on up to six Tables at once, each with its own LIVE and SHOW. Exhibit stickers get every type, a Classic look, a header line and a default you set once.
New
| Tables: the Counsel Table now has browser-style tabs — Table 1, Table 2 … up to six. Click a tab to work on it; only that table is shown to you. Each tab has its own LIVE and SHOW buttons, so the jury sees whatever you last sent while you prepare the next table in private. The LIVE light follows the table on the Display. Tabs are named from what they show (EX1 · p.2) or double-click to rename. Drag a tab to put it in any order; right-click → Color… to colour it. ＋ adds one, ✕ closes it. | Counsel Table tabs · Alt+1 … Alt+6 · 📌 Home table Alt+0 |
| Exhibit stickers: every exhibit type is in the Type list (Plaintiff's, Defendant's, Joint, Court's, Demonstrative, For I.D. and more), with the right short code for each. New Classic layout — PLAINTIFF'S / EXHIBIT / 2 with name · date under a thin line — plus Lettering (Light, Bold, Extra bold), an optional Header line (e.g. SUPERIOR COURT or CONFIDENTIAL) and a choice of what goes under the line. | Exhibit Settings → Sticker |
| Make this my default sticker: tick it once and every new job starts with your sticker. Older jobs keep the sticker they had. | |
Changed
| Drag any corner of a sticker to resize it (was the lower-right corner only); the pointer shows when you are on a corner. Batch numbering in order counts letters too — A, B … Z, AA · C-1, C-2 · PX-001, PX-002. | |
| F4-named pages show white and bold in the file list, File Names are silver. Case File no longer uses Alt+3 (Alt+1 … Alt+6 now switch Tables). | |
| Mac, Windows and Linux are built from one set of code. | |
Minor
| Minor fixes and enhancements. | |
0.9.9.144 — Find: OCR only when you say so · Valu-Present for Linux October 14, 2026
Normal PDFs search instantly. A PDF that is only pictures of pages asks before reading.
Changed
| Find in document: a normal PDF searches straight away, as in any PDF reader. A PDF that is only pictures of pages (scans, flattened productions) shows “Needs OCR to search — read it? Yes / No” next to Find. Yes reads the page on screen first and shows its matches, then the rest. The words are kept in the job, so each document is read only once, even after reopening. The original file is never changed. | |
New
| Linux: Valu-Present is available as an AppImage (runs from anywhere) and a .deb installer for Zorin OS 17 and Ubuntu 22.04 or later. Cases, layouts and shortcuts are the same on Mac, Windows and Linux. | Download page |
| Linux: the Display goes full-screen on the monitor you choose, and follows a plug or unplug, on both Xorg and Wayland sessions. | |
| Linux: the VALU-SYNC 2.0 engine, clip export and the A.I. all run on the CPU; Word, Excel and PowerPoint previews use LibreOffice (apt, snap or flatpak) when it is installed. Captions build the Speech Engine on your computer the first time (a few minutes). | |
Important fix
| Saved Screens → Export as PDF captured the wrong part of the window when Interface size was not 100 %. Fixed on every platform. | |
Minor
| Minor fixes and enhancements. | |
0.9.9.143 — Better Find · Saved Screens to PDF · starting layouts October 14, 2026
Find in a document now steps through every match, Saved Screens can be saved as a PDF, and new jobs start with the layout you choose.
Changed
| Find in document: Enter goes to the next match (not the next page), across pages. Words the PDF stores in pieces, and curly quotes, are found too. A scanned document shows “Read the pages”: click it and it can be searched. Find now searches only the document on screen (the All documents tick is gone; use Search Everything to search the whole case). | |
| 💾 Save layout asks: update the layout in use, or save as a new layout. The job always keeps what's on screen. | |
| Previously marked also saves a plain copy (no sticker) in the job's Finals folder, named like “Previously Marked Defendant's Exhibit 4”, with the witness added when given. | |
| The Go To box under the Counsel Table is gone. Call up with X, and type a page number on the page chip. | |
New
| Export Saved Screens as a PDF: right-click a saved screen → Export as PDF…, or Export all saved screens as PDF…. Each page is the screen exactly as saved (zoom, highlights, callouts) with its code and name. | |
| Starting layout for new jobs: choose one for depositions and one for trials in App Settings → Layout. A new job opens with it (or the clean layout) instead of the last job's layout. | App Settings → Layout → Starting layout for new jobs |
| Sticker text comes back: the name, the agency band and custom sticker text you typed before are a ▾ click away. While marking, the bar has a Name field with names you typed before. | |
Important fix
| Rename while importing: picking the characters of a number takes the whole number in every file, so Exhibit 1 … Exhibit 83 become 1 … 83. The rename codes are explained in plain words. | |
Minor
| Minor fixes and enhancements. | |
0.9.9.142 — Marking at a glance October 13, 2026
See how many exhibits are marked and how many are left, and previously marked exhibits stand out.
New
| The bottom bar counts the exhibits: how many are marked, how many were previously marked, and how many are not marked yet. The bar's text is also bigger. | |
| Previously marked exhibits have their own colour and a PREV tag in Files & Exhibits. The Exhibit Marking panel has a Previously marked… button (Shift+F9). Pick its colour in App Settings → Files & Exhibits → Exhibit stamping. | App Settings → Files & Exhibits |
Changed
| The Mark button takes your sticker's colour. Batch stamp moved off the Exhibit Marking panel; it's still in the menus and in Stamp Exhibits. | |
| Exhibit Details: a document already on the Display shows “✓ On the Display” instead of “Show again”. If you've changed it on the Counsel Table, the button says “Show changes”. | |
Important fix
| Stamping now shows the new ID (EX54) in Files & Exhibits right away. | |
Minor
| Minor fixes and enhancements. | |
0.9.9.141 — Exhibit stamping settings in one place · Previously marked IDs never clash October 13, 2026
The stamping options and the open-files option are now in App Settings → Files & Exhibits.
Changed
| App Settings → Files & Exhibits now holds “Word, Excel & other files” (open them in their own program) and a new Exhibit stamping card. The card has: Stamping sets the ID (EX1 / DX4 / PX12), Previously marked sets the ID (your own pattern), and Previously marked renames the File Name. These options apply to every job; they are no longer in Job Settings. | |
New
| Previously marked asks for the witness or deposition, so Smith 12 and Johns 12 get their own IDs (PrevSmith12, PrevJohns12). An ID already used by another file is refused, with a note to add the name. | |
Important fix
| Reading links on scanned pages now works in the installed app, not only from source. | |
Minor
| Minor fixes and enhancements. | |
0.9.9.140 — Open links in documents · Previously marked exhibits · Jobs keep their layout October 13, 2026
Right-click a web link in any document, even a scanned one, to open it. Previously marked exhibits get their own quick step. Each job now opens with the layout you saved in it.
New
| Right-click a web link in a document to open it in your browser or copy it. This works on links typed in the text, and on scanned pages: “Open a link here… (reads the page)” finds the address on the picture. | Right-click the page on the Counsel Table |
| Previously marked exhibits: right-click a file → Previously marked…, or press Shift+F9. Pick the exhibit type and number: the ID becomes Prev12 (PrevDX4 for Defendant’s 4). No sticker is added and no number is used up. App Settings can also rename the File Name with your own pattern (off by default). | |
| Stamping can set the exhibit’s ID: Exhibit 1 → EX1, Defendant’s 4 → DX4, Plaintiff’s 12 → PX12, with no spaces. It is off by default (App Settings). Unmark puts the old ID back. | |
Changed
| An exhibit that is already marked can’t be marked again by accident. You’ll see a message with an Unmark button instead. | |
| Each job opens with its own layout: panels, panel windows and tool groups. That layout wins over App Settings. Panel windows also stay remembered when you quit. | |
| Word, Excel and other non-PDF files no longer open in their own program on call-up unless you turn that on. | App Settings → General → “Open them automatically in their own program” |
| File Names in Files & Exhibits are yellow by default (a darker amber on the light theme) so they stand apart from the ID. | |
| Display label: your text sits left or center (the only choices), and “Valu-Present” always stays at the right end, so centered text stays centered. | |
Important fix
| Rotate all pages and save on a marked exhibit: the sticker now turns with the page and stays in the same spot, and saved screens keep what they showed. | |
| Zoom: a quick drag, or a flat swipe along a line of text, now always zooms. | |
Minor
| Minor fixes and enhancements. | |
0.9.9.136.2 — Clearer update notes October 9, 2026
The update history is rewritten: what changes how you work is explained; small fixes are listed as minor.
Changed
| What’s New and the website’s update history now explain each release in plain words — New, Changed and Important fix — with small fixes rolled into one line. | Help → What’s New · Help → All updates |
0.9.9.136.1 — Re-syncing keeps your first sync · History finds what was called out October 9, 2026
Re-syncing a deposition no longer overwrites the sync you already have, and History can now be searched by what you called out.
Changed
| Syncing a deposition that is already synced now creates a new copy — “Name (new sync)”, in the same witness folder. Your existing sync stays exactly as it was, so you can compare the two and keep whichever you want (rename or delete the other). A deposition that is not synced yet is synced in place, as before. | |
New
| History search finds callouts and highlights by what they cover — “1st paragraph”, “footer 117”, or any word inside the marked text. The entry opens on the matching step; click it to put that screen back. Search Everything finds them too. | History search box · Search Everything (Ctrl/⌘+Shift+G) |
| History shows how each screen reached the Display: L = Live, S = Show. | |
Minor
| Minor fixes and enhancements. | |
0.9.9.136 — New sync engine — VALU-SYNC 2.0 October 9, 2026
Syncing a transcript to its video now uses the VALU-SYNC 2.0 engine: more exact line times, and it tells you where the recording has no sound instead of guessing.
New
| The VALU-SYNC 2.0 engine lines up every transcript line with the moment its first word is spoken. Lines that are in the transcript but were never said are flagged rather than squeezed in. It runs on your computer; the first sync downloads it once (about 100 MB, one click). | Sync a deposition |
| No-audio check: stretches of the video with no sound are found and shown in bold red (e.g. NO AUDIO DETECTED 0:00:00–0:26:26 · pages 4–20). Lines in those stretches get no time — never a guess. A silent microphone channel or a video with no sound at all is reported too. | |
| Manual Sync — play, listen, mark: click the line you hear and press Space as it is spoken; the next line is selected for you. Ctrl/⌘+Z undoes. After three marks, Sync Forward re-lines up the rest of that video from your marks. Lines you mark by hand are never moved by any later sync. | Transcript: M, or right-click a line |
| Right-click any line: Sync Forward from here, or Re-sync the selected lines from the audio. | |
| Find words on the Display: Alt+F searches the document on the Counsel Table; Alt+Shift+F searches the document the witness is seeing — its page turns and the words are outlined there. | |
Changed
| History describes what you marked: “Callout — 1st paragraph …”, “Highlight — line starting Q. Did you …”, “Callout — footer · 117”. | |
| Typing a page number: the Go to page box now waits for Enter (Esc cancels). | |
| Exhibit labels can carry a small “display screen by Valu-Present” in the far corner — on by default, off in Settings → Exhibit Labels. It is on the screen only, never on stamped exhibits. | |
Minor
| Minor fixes and enhancements. | |
0.9.9.135.1 — Stamp Exhibits — a cleaner step-by-step October 8, 2026
The Stamp Exhibits steps are simpler to follow from start to finish.
Changed
| Stamp Exhibits is now one of the three choices in New Case (Ctrl+N), next to Deposition and Trial / Arbitration. | |
| Batch stamping walks you through it: where the finished files go → the full sticker settings → the files → the list to check → Batch process all. When it is done: open the folder, start another batch, go back to the start screen, or quit. | |
| Each stamp job starts with a clean slate — your sticker design and company carry over; the reporter, CSR and job details start blank. | |
Minor
| Minor fixes and enhancements. | |
0.9.9.135 — Stamp Exhibits: Live or Batch · numbers read from file names October 8, 2026
Stamping starts with one question — Live (during a session) or Batch (a set of files) — and the exhibit numbers come from the file names.
New
| Live: name the session and where it is saved, then bring in the documents. The exhibit numbers in the file names are used; if the names are not consistent, the files are numbered 1, 2, 3. | |
| Batch reads exhibit numbers anywhere in a file name — at the start, at the end, after EX / Exhibit / PX — and gaps are fine (21, 32–35, 80…). Dates and Bates numbers are ignored. Files with no number or a duplicate are listed so you can rename them and try again, or number them in order. | |
Minor
| Minor fixes and enhancements. | |
0.9.9.134.2 — Name an exhibit without a sticker October 8, 2026
For exhibits with an objection pending.
New
| Name as exhibit only: right-click a file to make a copy named as the exhibit and use the number — without a sticker. Add the sticker later (same number, same file) or unmark it. | Right-click a file |
Changed
| Finished batch files go next to the originals in a MARKED FINALS folder by default, or a folder you choose. | |
Important fix
| Batch stamping no longer reads a date at the start of a file name as the exhibit number. | |
Minor
| Minor fixes and enhancements. | |
0.9.9.134.1 — Word, Excel and PowerPoint stay Word, Excel and PowerPoint October 8, 2026
Marked Office files are never turned into PDFs.
Changed
| Marking a Word, Excel or PowerPoint file always puts the sticker into a copy of that same file type — never a PDF — so the file of record keeps its format. | |
New
| Files that cannot hold a sticker (old .doc / .xls / .ppt, Pages, Keynote, RTF, email) get the renamed copy, the sticker as a picture at its real size, and short steps for adding it in that program. | |
| Marked files show in red in Files & Exhibits with their exhibit number, so you can see at a glance what is done and what is left. | |
Minor
| Minor fixes and enhancements. | |
0.9.9.134 — Exhibit types, your own sticker design, smarter numbering October 8, 2026
Stickers for every kind of case, your own sticker artwork, and exhibit numbers taken from file names or the transcript.
New
| Exhibit types for every case — Plaintiff’s, Defendant’s, Joint, Claimant’s, Respondent’s, Petitioner’s, Third-party, Court’s, Government — each in its standard color, printed long (PLAINTIFF’S EXHIBIT 1) or short (PX 1), with the witness name in front if you want it. | Job Settings → Exhibit Stickers |
| The saved file name is set separately from the sticker — the sticker can say SMITH EXHIBIT 1 while the file is “Exhibit 1.pdf”. | |
| The sticker’s bottom band can show the agency, the court reporter and CSR number, or both, plus a case number line. | |
| Import your own sticker design; Valu-Present finds where the number and date go and uses it for live, batch and Office stamping. | |
| Batch stamping can take the numbers from the file names, or from a deposition’s exhibit index — and then links each exhibit in the testimony where it is first mentioned. | |
| Exporting clip videos shows progress with Cancel. | |
Changed
| Designations: the party is asked once (for an imported list, or your first one by hand); every new designation then follows that side until you switch. | |
Important fix
| Opening or closing a panel no longer changes the size of your other panels, in any job. | |
Minor
| Minor fixes and enhancements. | |
0.9.9.133.2 — Switch any job to stamping October 8, 2026
Finished a deposition without stamping? Stamp it afterwards.
New
| Any job can switch to Stamp Exhibits mode: it sets the MARKED folder and opens batch stamping with every unstamped file ticked. | ＋ Add → Stamp Exhibits mode |
Changed
| Stamp Exhibits mode shows only what stamping needs; leave it any time from ＋ Add. | |
Minor
| Minor fixes and enhancements. | |
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