Hello,
Although perhaps a technically more complicated approach than others, a
combination of video editing software and database programs can be very
effective in coding video.
Video editing applications, such as Adobe Premier, Apple's Final Cut Pro,
and (I'm sure) others have a "clip logging" feature that allows users to
record observations for specific sections of video footage. Here's an
overview of how it works...
Connect video source to computer and launch video editing software.
Go to the video "logging" feature within the application and start playing
the tape.
Using mouse clicks, select in-points and out-points for the clip and write
notes about the clip in text boxes that are provided.
Continue logging clips until you are done viewing the tape.
Once completed, the "log" for all you clips can be exported into a text file
(tab-delimited) and imported into a database or spreadsheet program for
further coding and/or analysis.
Some benefits of this approach
- the log can be used at a later date to automatically capture the clips
(individually or as a batch) to the harddrive or to search for the in-points
clips on the tape.
- If clips are captured to harddrive, they can be deleted after use and
re-capture with exact in and out-points as before. This allows tapes to be
archived on tape, a much more cost effective approach than using harddrive
space.
- it offers the flexibility of working with either video tape or digitized
video (i.e., captured to computer harddrive).
- captured and compressed video clips (a somewhat complicated process) can
be imported into FileMaker Pro and perhaps other database programs for
simultaneous viewing and coding.
Hope this is useful.
-Brad
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Brad Belbas
Doctoral Candidate
University of Minnesota
College of Education and Human Development
1954 Buford Ave
VoTech Education Building
St. Paul, MN 55108
USA
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> Hello:
>
> I'm new to the list.
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> I wonder if anyone knows of software that facilitates coding of digital
> video. I have used Atlas before and found it quite powerful, but I don't
> think it would allow for digital video coding.
>
> I also want to find a way to transcribe the audio signal from digital video
> recordings. Any thoughts on software that would facilitate this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter
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