<div dir="ltr">I would use FFMPEG and convert them to mp4's. Or you could try something something like Handbrake:
<a href="https://handbrake.fr/">https://handbrake.fr/</a><div><br></div><div>Setup for FFMPEG is a little bit tricky but worth the effort, especially if you're going to do this often, here are some helpful links:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://video.stackexchange.com/questions/20495/how-do-i-set-up-and-use-ffmpeg-in-windows">https://video.stackexchange.com/questions/20495/how-do-i-set-up-and-use-ffmpeg-in-windows</a> </div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://superuser.com/questions/624561/install-ffmpeg-on-os-x">https://superuser.com/questions/624561/install-ffmpeg-on-os-x</a></div><div><br></div><div>FFMPEG presets guide: <a href="https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/H.264">https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/H.264</a></div><div><br></div><div>Once you have FFMEPG installed you use it in your command prompt. You then have to point your command prompt to the location of your video files, then enter a command to run the conversion with some presets. This is the command I usually use when converting mov to mp4 (in windows).</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">for %i in (*.mov) do ffmpeg -i "%i" -crf 23 -preset medium -movflags +faststart -c:a aac "%~ni.mp4" <br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This should give you something to work with, hope it helps.</div><div> </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 10:00 PM Amanda Hamilton-Hollaway <<a href="mailto:amanda.hamilton2@uq.net.au">amanda.hamilton2@uq.net.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello! I am trying to transcribe a video file in ELAN on a PC and am having problems getting it set up. Could anyone offer advice? Here’s what’s happening:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<li class="gmail-m_-7643354157894539391MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in">The video files were given to me by another researcher and are available in two different formats, recorded on two different devices: a Sony video recorder has produced .mts video
files, while a Zoom has produced .mov video files. When I try to create a new transcription file with either one of these types as the media file, though, I get an error message similar to the one in this screenshot here:<u></u><u></u></li></ol>
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<li class="gmail-m_-7643354157894539391MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in">On page 12 of version 5.9 (2020-03-20) of the ELAN manual, it seems to say that if your “media framework” can handle a certain file, ELAN will be able to handle it too.<u></u><u></u></li><ol style="margin-top:0in" start="1" type="a">
<li class="gmail-m_-7643354157894539391MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in">I started by downloading Quicktime for Windows. The download worked, and I can now play these files with Quicktime, but it made no difference to ELAN’s ability to do so.<u></u><u></u></li><li class="gmail-m_-7643354157894539391MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in">I then tried out different “media framework” preferences within ELAN (Edit
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à</span> Edit Preferences <span style="font-family:Wingdings">à</span> Platform/OS):<u></u><u></u></li></ol>
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<li class="gmail-m_-7643354157894539391MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in">I tried both a Sony file and a Zoom file with each of the four framework options, but no framework could open either type of file.<u></u><u></u></li></ol>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I can open an .mp4 video file in ELAN easily, so maybe some sort of conversion is the way to go, if that’s possible…<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Any help will be much appreciated!<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Amanda<u></u><u></u></p>
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