Annotape : USA / Annotape : Ireland (for the annotation  of sound files) http://www.rosehill.ie/

AnnoTape turns your computer into a ‘virtual’ tape or video recorder:

• Record video or sound files - interviews, conversations, broadcasts - direct to the hard disk of your computer…
• Store up to one hundred hours of video, image, sound, together with text-based data, all in one integrated database
• Analyse data by annotating & indexing the original media files
• Effectively creating ‘snippets’ of virtual tape for a database of data
• At the touch of a button, return to the exact moment in the tape you seek
• Transcribe only those ‘snippets’ of sound you really need, using AnnoTape’s transcription environment

One hour of recording normally takes between six to eight hours of professional transcription, involving time and expense. However, AnnoTape lets you record, review, analyse and index the sound files themselves.

AnnoTape
24 Rosehill
Carrigaline
Co. Cork
Ireland

Audacity is an audio editor which will record sounds, play sounds, import, edit and export WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, and MP3 files

• Record live audio.
• Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
• Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files.
• Cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together.
• Change the speed or pitch of a recording

Audacity wiki http://audacityteam.org/wiki/

CTANKS :   (transcription /multimedia software)

Not really software for analysis, but researchers might find some of the facilities it provides useful in data collection.

Version 5.7 includes total recording frame rates of up to 240 fps. Customers can choose the system to meet their specific needs, including systems with 20, 60, 120, and 240 frames per second. Other benefits of the latest technology include a reduction in image file size of 15 to 90 percent, as well as significant improvements in image quality. The file size reduction is especially evident in low lighting conditions; tests and initial installations have shown file sizes that are less than one tenth of previous file sizes under the same condition.

Also included in Version 5.7 is an advanced application for video intelligence (VI) software. The application intelligently tracks objects in the camera field while distinguishing between human and nonhuman activity. It can track directionally and provide alert notification for activities that require investigation or action. As part of the recent improvements, this additional software layer is now fully integrated into the cVideo product platform. This integration allows users to manage their VI-enhanced surveillance operations through a single, easy-to-use client interface. Further, the video intelligence events and alerts include a more detailed description of the event detected.

Phone: 858 385 2000
Fax: 858 385 2020

InterClipper is a realtime video organizer. You can organize video

• in realtime when an event is happening and you're recording it or
• later when you play it back.

MacSHAPA is a Macintosh-based software environment that supports observational data analysis, including the analysis of video. Qualitative and quantitative analysis activities are both supported. Users may simply browse video records, making unstructured comments that can later be searched or used to access interesting parts of the video. Alternatively, users may develop coding schemes within MacSHAPA, tag their video records or data files with these codes, and then use statistical routines to analyse the data once fully encoded. MacSHAPA can be used for observational studies in cognitive engineering, cognitive modelling, human-computer interaction, developmental psychology, group decision making and teamwork, CSCW environments, analysis of emergency response, and in many other domains.

Professor Penelope Sanderson The University of Queensland
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Professional system for collection, analysis and management of observational data. For 'live' data entry by a human observer or from video tape, using a desktop or hand-held computer. During an observation session, key presses are used to log events and the time at which they occur. You can also use a mouse or a computer pen as the input device. You can explore your data in time-event tables and plots, or generate reports with statistics on frequencies and durations, the sequential structure of the process or the co-occurrence of events. Video tape analysis system (Window only) allows time coding of videos for analysis. (multi media - inc. video)

http://www.noldus.com/site/doc200401012
http://www.noldus.com/products/observer/observer.html

Short tour: http://www.noldus.com/site/doc200401012
Case studies using Observer: http://www.noldus.com/site/doc200402057
Search publications that applied Observer: http://www.noldus.com/site/doc200406053

video/sound-  formerly 'KIT'

Transcriber is a software package for computer based transcription of an audio recordings. The software allows you to synchronise the transcript with the audio recording. By manually segmenting and labeling speech turns and topic changes. This helps with checking the accuracy of a transcript and also allows you to search for a section by topic. It is as simple as possible, and its interface is mostly user configurable.

http://trans.sourceforge.net/en/presentation.php

Transana is software for researchers who want to analyse digital video or audio data. Transana lets you analyse 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.

Wisconsin Center for Education Research
School of Education
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1025 West Johnson Street, Room 345-A
Madison, Wisconsin 53706

VirtualDub is a video editing/cleaning up software package. It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video.  It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters.  VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images.

VTLOGANL: Coding and analysing videotaped data. VTLOGANL slaves a videos deck to a computer system which allows the coding of pulsed or duration events which have been recorded on video. The researcher can define up to 9,999 codeword's for each project and organize any combination of up to 30 of those codeword's for each elapsed second of logged tim