Susan,
I think you have missed quite a lot in C-I-SAID this may be due to the
limitations of the user guide in version 1.  In version 3 (see my web page
for more details Code-A-Text Web Page <http://www.code-a-text.co.uk>) the
user guide has been completely revised.

There is also a new linking editor which makes linking much easier. To make
a link between a video file and a segment is easy - you stop the video at
the point where you want the link and click with a mouse.   It is also
possible make auto links as you suggest but (if C-I-SAID can extract the
embedded WAV fle) you can also segment on periods of silence.  For instance
create a segment every time there is a silence of ten seconds.

I suspect the problems of overlapping codes comes from the different roots
from which C-I-SAID evolves. My understanding is that many qualsoft
programmes allow you to apply a code or a label to a segment and then bring
these together into families etc.  You can do this with C-I-SAID by using
the various lexical coding methods which are completely free form.  The
rating scale methods do not allow this because they require that the scale
(the family if you like) is explicit at the beginning. Thus codes are
initially added to a scale.  The lowest level scale being a nominal scale
with a value of true or false.  Codes from within scales can however be
drawn together to form higher level scales and much of this is done
automatically by the programme. Using these methods overlapping coding is
not a problem.

With regard to searches C-I-SAID can not only conduct searches on multiple
combinations of codes but you can send the output to tables, reports and
grids. Depending on your data and output source you can then play the media
file,  analyse the tone of voice, or undertake a content analysis of the
output which can be compared to segments not included. You can of course
make new documents or code existing documents with the result of the output.

Within content analysis searches can be focused at the level of a phrase
within a sentence.

You can also undertake statistical analysis of the codes within the
selected segments and for instance produce a cross-tabulation and graphical
representation of the data.  Clicking on a data point in a graph or a cell
in a table takes you back to your source data.

C-I-SAID is in many ways radically different from other programmes and aims
to place the depth of qualitative analysis within the framework of a
quantitative programme.  That does bring some limitations but I think the
major one was that the user guide was not specific enough and there were
not enough demonstrations in version 1.  I hope that version 3 has
responded to these limitations.    Incidentally you can download the new
user guide from my web site (www.code-a-text.co.uk)

Regards
Alan Cartwright



At 22:53 27/06/2001 +0200, you wrote:
>I cannot advise you to use HyperResearch - at least not at the current
>point in time. It may work if you have the version for MAC, but the
>video coding function on the PC version does not work yet. I have been
>given access to the newest beta version. There the coding did work, but
>then there were problems with the data retrieval. Thus, in terms of
>using HyperResearch - I would wait for further updates in the future.
>
>With regard to C-I-SAID, you should look at the way coding (or scoring)
>is done. Defining segments needs some practice and you may be best off
>by letting the software predefine your chunks, e.g. in terms of 1
>minute or so segments (Alan may disagree with me here, but this is my
>experience). Then you have no possibility of letting your coding
>overlap. It is a more or less exclusive, yes or no coding for each
>segment. In terms of retrieval, you get a list of the segments, how
>often they occur, output in forms of tables in text, etc. However, you
>cannot ask for a code or a combination of codes and get the segments
>replayed (Alan correct me if I am wrong here and I am missing a feature
>in your software).
>
>Susanne
>
>
> > HI,
> > I cannot seem to find that on a search - do you have a webpage?
> > Thanks
> > Cheryl
> >  ----- Original Message -----
> >  From: Alan Cartwright
> >  To: [log in to unmask]
> >  Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 9:53 AM
> >  Subject: Re: Large video project
> >
> >
> >  Hi,
> >  Why not also consider C-I-SAID which offers synchronisation of
> > text video and codes or coding of video without transcription.
> >
> >  Regards
> >  Alan Cartwright
> >
> >  At 09:13 27/06/2001 -0300, you wrote:
> >
> >    Hello
> >    My research unit is soon to embark on a large video project
> > that will have about 150 subjects with about 5 hours of digitised
> > video each. We are weighing the pros and cons of using Atlas.ti or
> > HyperResearch to code these. Does anyone have comments on the
> > utility of either of these with video (there will be text as
> > well)?
> >    Any help is appreciated.
> >
> >    CD Cook
> >  Alan Cartwright PhD
> >  Developer Code-A-Text MultiMedia Products
> >  Hon. Senior Lecturer Kent Institute of Medicine and Health Studies.
> >  Email [log in to unmask]
> >
> >  CISAID: Powerful Multi-Media Software for Analysing Interviews
> > and Dialogues.
> >  CTANKS: Word processing, Recording, Transcription, Searching
> > and Report Generation in a single user friendly package.
> >
> >  Information at
> >  Code-A-Text Web Page <" target="l">http://www.code-a-text.co.uk>
> >
> >

Alan Cartwright PhD
Developer Code-A-Text MultiMedia Products
Hon. Senior Lecturer Kent Institute of Medicine and Health Studies.
Email [log in to unmask]

CISAID: Powerful Multi-Media Software for Analysing Interviews and Dialogues.
CTANKS: Word processing, Recording, Transcription, Searching  and Report
Generation in a single user friendly package.

Information at
Code-A-Text Web Page <http://www.code-a-text.co.uk>