About Video
Transana is built to allow you to download your video into the program's database for use during transcription and analysis. Keep in mind the following helpful links and information:

• Transana allows you to adjust the size of the Video window.
• The Transcription window and the Video window inter-relate when using play functions.
• Macintosh specific instructions are next to Windows instructions where the usage controls differ.

Adding a Video to the database using Add Episode
You should already have your video downloaded onto your computer in a file you will remember.
In order to add a video to your Transana database you created, you must first complete the process of adding a Series. After you added your series follow these steps to add your video (or Episode):

1. Right-click on the series name and
2. Click Add Episode (you will see the dialog box shown below)
3. Type your Episode id, your initials for owner
4. Click the browse button next to the Media File name box
5. Locate your video on your computer
6. Select the video name by clicking on it once
7. Click open on the dialoge box - this will return you to your Add Episode dialog box with your media filename shown
8. Select your keyword group you want correlated to your video (if you already created a keyword group; if not see Adding a Keyword Group)
9. Double-click on each keyword you want to add to this episode (if you already created them; if not see Adding Keywords)
10. Click OK

Remember, once you add an Episode or video to your database, Transana automatically prompts you to add a transcript.

The video window allows you to play, pause, and stop the video, and provides a slider bar for navigation within the video. Note that when you use Pause, the current position in the video is retained, but that when you use Stop, (available in the Windows version only), the video is automatically rewound to the beginning of the active video segment.

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Playing a video
Transana offers a wide variety of options for controlling video playback, especially once you have a time-coded transcript to work with. You can control the playback from the Video window, the Visualization window, and the Transcription window. Follow the instructions below for each type.

Video Window
The Video window works as you'd expect, if you've ever used video playback software such as Windows Media Player. Click the title bar of the Video window to make it the active window, then use the following controls.

• Click the start button to start the video.
• Click the pause button to pause the video; click the start button to restart the video from the same place.
• Click the stop button to stop the video and automatically rewind to the beginning of the video (The Mac Quicktime Player does not have a Stop button.)
• Use the slider bar to move around the video.

Information to keep in mind when using the Video window

• Transana disables the skip back, rewind, fast forward and skip forward buttons in Windows.
• As you move through the video, Transana highlights the segments of the transcription that correspond to your place in the video.
• Segments are those parts of the video that fall between time codes (e.g., the words of each different speaker).

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Visualization window
You can also start and pause the video from the Visualization window. This is useful for certain kinds of analysis and also allows you to position the video according to elapsed time.

To play the video using the Visualization window, complete the following instructions.

1. Click anywhere in the waveform
2. Right-click to start playing the video
3. Right-click again to pause the video

Remember the following about right and left mouse-clicking

• Right-click is a toggle
• Left click selects your location
• Right-click starts and pauses the video

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Time Display
When you move your mouse pointer over the waveform, Transana shows you the corresponding time on the Visualization window status bar, next to the label "Time." (On the Mac, you may have to activate the Visualization window by clicking on it first.) This is elapsed time from the beginning of the video to the point where the mouse pointer is located. Notice the time changes as you move your crosshair cursor through the waveform.

When you click on the Waveform to select a position in the video, the "Current" time indicator switches to the selected time.

Transcription and Visualization
Transana highlights the segment of the transcription that corresponds to your place in the video, just as it does when you play a video from the Video window.

Notice also that as you move around the Visualization window and click different parts of the waveform, the video in the video window and the highlight in the transcript move also. Transana uses the place where you clicked in the Visualization window as the starting point if you click the Play button in the Video window.

Play sections of the video
You can also play just a selected portion of the video from the Visualization window.
Click and drag your mouse over a portion of the waveform, then right-click.
If you are having difficulty understanding a portion of the video during transcription, it can be very helpful to highlight that portion in the Visualization window and right-click the waveform repeatedly to have that segment played over and over until you can decipher it.

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Transcription window
Follow these directions to play the video from the Transcript window. The Transcript window provides the easiest way to play individual time coded segments of your video.

1. Click in the Transcript Window to make the Transcript window the active window.
2. Left-click anywhere in the transcript to select a segment
3. Right-click anywhere on the transcript to start playing the video. Transana plays from the time code preceding the cursor inthe Transcript window to the time code following the cursor.

Additional options
Use the following options within the Transcription Window

• Play from one segment of the video through to the end.
  1. Click anywhere in the transcript
  2. Press Ctrl and right-click. Macintosh: Hold down the "Command," or "Meta" key along with the Ctrl key while clicking the transcript.
     • Transana plays from that point in the video to the end
• Play a larger segment that crosses time codes
  1. click and drag to highlight the desired section of the transcript
  2. Right-click to play the highlighted part

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How the Transcription window and Video window relate
Notice something about the interaction of the three windows: When you select and play a portion of the transcript in the Transcription window, Transana uses the beginning of the selection as the starting point when you start the video from the Video window (by clicking Play).

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Video Size

In the Options menu, the Video Size sub-menu allows you to change the size of the Video window and have all other windows compensate automatically.

You can adjust the size of this window by going to the Options Menu, and selecting Video Size, or by dragging the edges of the window. (On the Macintosh, only the lower right corner of the frame works to resize the frame.) When you resize the video window, the other three windows automatically adjust their size and position to accommodate the video window size you select if the Auto-Arrange option is selected.

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Playing Video and Transcribing
If you have time codes in your transcript, you can right-click the transcript to play the section between the nearest time codes where the cursor is currently placed. You can also highlight a larger section of the transcript if you want to play a portion that crosses time codes.

If you would like to play from the current position in the transcript to the end of the loaded Episode or Clip, on Windows, you can hold down the Ctrl key and right-click the Transcript or, on the Mac, hold down the Ctrl and "Command" or "Meta" key and click the Transcript.

During transcription, you may find it easiest to use Ctrl-S to start and stop video playback. Transana will play the video in Transcription Mode, which will auto-rewind when played. You can set the amount of the rewind as well as the playback speed from the Options menu - Program Settings dialog - Transcriber Settings tab.

Some other useful functions include the following shortcuts.

• Ctrl-D will pause and restart the video playback without auto-rewinding
• Ctrl-A will rewind the video by 10 seconds
• Ctrl-F will fast-forward the video by 10 seconds
• Ctrl-N will cause the next time-coded segment to be played
• Ctrl-P will cause the previous time-coded segment to be played
• Ctrl-T will cause a time code for the current video position (as indicated in the Sound Visualization Window) to be inserted at the current cursor position in the Transcript

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