This message carries on from the "Qualrus and screen capture video files"
thread (March 2005).
Chris Thorn wrote - "Speaking for the Transana team, this is a tough issue.
We certainly encourage users to transcribe only those segments of the video
that are analytically relevant."
That actually suits my purposes quite well. I typically analyse a few hours
screen capture using qualrus (saving time, expense & error on transcription)
and then end up identifying a 15 to 20 video excerpt that is of particular
interest. I tried using transana to finely analyse a short excerpt for
closer analysis and found it a very productive activity - not just for my
own thinking but for presenting ideas to colleagues. I will certainly
continue to get to know transana.
It occurs to me there may be a productive way to analyse video in transana
without transcribing. This is speculative but in essence I'm wondering
something like this:
Rather than transcribe one could simply copy a list of numbers into the
transcript window as follows -
zero
one
two
three...
... and so on. Each number corresponds to a minute of video (or whatever
appropriate scale). Time codes can then be inserted and clips, collections
and keywords assigned - it seems to me there's no need whatsoever for the
transcript window to actually contain a transcription in order to do this.
That said I am inexperienced with transana and have not tried what I am
suggesting. Does it make sense or am I talking nonsense?
Ian
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