NCAVF is the National Center for Audio and Video Forensics
NCAVF provides full service legal video consulting, investigation, forensic enhancement, and media preparation for audio and video evidence used in mediations, arbitration, hearings, and court. We are court approved with proven results -- and trusted every day to assess and clarify audio and video evidence, keeping videos and related evidence private, creating clear courtroom presentations, and always maintaining a clear chain of custody.
Our digital media evidence preparation and expert witness testimony has proven in post-verdict jury interviews to be crucial to a jury's understanding of the facts.
Speaking engagements include the national convention of WEVA, the annual meeting of PORAC (the Police Officers research Association of California), and the San Diego Office of Public Defenders. We also have assisted with presentations made to LA County District Attorney's Office and to the Los Angeles Police Protective League. We are approved by the California Bar to be an MCLE provider. We are on the Panel of Expert Witnesses of Los Angeles County Superior Court, the Los Angeles Public Defender's approved experts list, and on numerous public defender lists throughout California.
With twenty years of audio & video production in television, feature films, and corporate productions, our award winning work, from producing television news to editing feature films, makes us uniquely qualified to work with all aspects of digital media evidence to find strategies and approaches for any case involving video and audio.
Based in Southern California and serving across the Western United States, NCAVF is known for first class customer service, careful attention to detail, constant education in the newest technologies, and creative thinking inside and outside the box. See our case studies. The founder of NCAVF is David Notowitz.
The founder of NCAVF
David Notowitz presents at a national seminar of video experts
He has produced and edited corporate productions for clients such as Fox Broadcasting Company, Yahoo!, GM, The Learning Channel, Rhino Entertainment, Miller Beer, IBM, Disney, Fandango, Frigidaire, Pepperdine University, University of California, City of Santa Monica, and UBS Investment Bank.
His company produced award winning films and documentaries, including Voices Of The Shoah: Remembrances Of The Holocaust for Warner Bros., and the Emmy-nominated Carpati, which was named by the San Diego Union Tribune as one of the top ten films of 1997. He was also the editor of the nationally acclaimed 1992 documentary The Last Klezmer.
Professional awards include a Los Angeles Emmy and two nominations and three CableACE nominations.
Mr. Notowitz has worked as a forensic video expert witness on cases being investigated by police officers, detectives, insurance investigators, public defenders, and corporate attorneys with cases across Northern and Southern California, including the counties of San Bernardino, Los Angeles, Ventura, and the cities of Palm Springs, Whittier, Reno, San Francisco, Sacramento, Emeryville, Irvine, and Pomona.
His most prominent court work has been his involvement as a video expert with the nationally covered Ivory Webb case. Television, radio, and print coverage of the case included major national and local news outlets, from the Today Show to CNN to the New York Times. Details of his contributions were written up in the PORAC Law Enforcement News. He also was a video forensic consultant for the TV program The Insider.
David Notowitz operates NCAVF, the National Center for Audio and Video Forensics, a full service audio and video forensics company based in Los Angeles and providing all levels of consulting and media preparation for evidence used in mediations, arbitration, hearings, and court, from 3D recreations of crime scenes to video production, and from forensic video enhancement to testifying in court as an expert witness.