Video now comes in a Super Variety Pak of formats, resolutions, shapes. Here's my judgment call about what to use for video depositions: well-recorded SD, standard definition.
This is the old television shape, before HD appeared with the frame stretched horizontally. And before high resolution pictures made every newsreader nervous about how late in life they're be able to appear.
Here's my thinking: The narrower shape is better for depositions, which are just talking heads. They don't need all that room on the sides of the frame. In fact it's a problem to make sure there's nothing distracting that far to the sides of the witness.
The lower resolution is okay because people look better.
A drawback to using the old SD is that there's a subconscious inference of quality when people see the latest shape and the higher resolution. I don't have any solid research on this, so you're getting my educated guess.
You could hedge your bets by recording in HD, high resolution, horizontal shape, and then just use the middle of the frame. Slice off the sides in the edit suite. That would give the narrower shape with the quality inference of higher resolution. Not to make you nervous, but I'm afraid this is an artistic decision. Not the kind where you press the back of your hand to your forehead and, in french accent, wail, "Ah am an ahtist. Ah can't work like dees!" Just a multi-variant equation with no official solution.
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