Guided Tour - Collaboration

Sharing video

Video files tend to be large and can present obstacles to convenient sharing of source data files. In particular, most human-subjects-sensitive video data should not be transfered over the Internet without certain security precautions in place. To address this issue, Transana includes a file management tool that includes the capacity to transfer video files across the Internet in an encrypted, secure format.

Presentations

One important aspect of doing research in an academic setting is sharing results. Video can often be very useful during academic conferences (or meetings with colleagues or supervisors) to vividly demonstrate a particular finding.

To address this, Transana provides a presentation mode where you can show excerpts of your video (Transana clips) using Transana in parallel with presentation software. This approach also facilitates flexible data sessions where the audience may ask questions about the data and the researcher can use all of the data in Transana to ground the responses in source video.

Multi-user Transana

Transana supports the qualitative analysis of video for all sizes of projects. For those projects with a lot of video to be analyzed by multiple researchers, Transana has a multi-user version. Transana-MU allows a research project to centralize its data, allowing the data to be shared by many researchers at once, even if those researchers are not in the same location. Changes made by one researcher are automatically and essentially instantaneously reflected on screen for all other researchers working on the project at the same time. See About the Multi-User Version of Transana for more information.