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Julie, If what you are doing is transcript and video analysis (not other artifacts as well), you should take a look at Transana (www.transana.org). Transana is a free package for transcription and multimedia file analysis. It is currently available for Windows in a single and multi-user version. We are working on a new open source version that currently is in beta for Windows and in alpha for OSX. These versions will also support single-user and multi-user modes. We created Transana and the larger "Digital Insight" project to address the problems associated with doing analysis across large collections of multimedia data. The technology we use works for a single researcher, but is scalable across 1,000s of hours and many locations. Chris -- Dr. Christopher Thorn Director of Technical Services Wisconsin Center for Education Research University of Wisconsin-Madison 1025 W. Johnson St., Room 370 Madison, WI 53706, USA http://facstaff.wcer.wisc.edu/cthorn Tel: 608-263-2709 Fax: 608-265-9300 On Mon, 10 May 2004 15:56:42 +0100, Julie Evans <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >We are considering swapping from QSR N6 to ATLAS-TI (or some other >package that handles multimedia data) for analysing our video-recorded >interviews. Up till now we have analysed the transcript only but realise >that we could gain a lot by coding the video data directly. However, our >interviews are anything from 1 to 3 hours long and we don't know whether >it would be feasible to handle this quantity of data with Atlas-ti or >other packages. We have between 40 and 50 interviews in each project. > >Is anybody out there analysing this type of quantity of data with these >packages? If so, what package do you use, what format are your video >files, do you compress them first, do you save them onto CD/DVD, how >many can you get on a disk and how does the software cope with accessing >different disks? > >Any advice would be welcomed, even if it's to say 'don't do it!'. > >Many thanks > >Julie > > >Julie Evans >Senior Researcher >DIPEx Research Group >Department of Primary Care >University of Oxford >Old Road Campus >Headington, Oxford OX3 7LF >Tel: 01865 226999/226672 >Email: [log in to unmask] >Website: www.dipex.org