Transana

Transana is software for professional researchers who want to analyze digital video or audio data. Transana lets you analyze and manage your data in very sophisticated ways.

Transcribe it, identify analytically interesting clips, assign keywords to clips, arrange and rearrange clips, create complex collections of interrelated clips, explore relationships between applied keywords, and share your analysis with colleagues.
The result is a new way to focus on your data, and a new way to manage large collections of video and audio files and clips.
Main features:
- Transcribe their video or audio files in as much or as little detail as desired. (Please note that transcription in Transana is a facilitated manual process. Voice recognition technology has not yet developed to the point where it is useful with most research video or audio files.)
- Identify and easily access the analytically significant portions of their video data.
- Manage large video collections containing hundreds (and potentially thousands) of hours of video.
- Organize video clips (from the same or from different video files) into meaningful categories, as a mechanism for developing and expanding the theoretical understanding of what the video shows.
- Apply searchable analytic keywords to these video clips.
- View graphical and text-based reports about your analytic coding.
- Engage in complex data mining and hypothesis testing across large video collections.
- Share analytic markup with distant colleagues to facilitate collaborative analysis.