[RNLD List] Help with transcribing video in ELAN

[Amanda Hamilton-Hollaway]

Dear all,

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:


  1.  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:
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  1.  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.
     *   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.
     *   I then tried out different "media framework" preferences within ELAN (Edit --> Preferences --> Edit Preferences --> Platform/OS):

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     *   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.

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...

Any help will be much appreciated!
Amanda

PhD candidate
Linguistics  |  School of Languages and Cultures
3rd floor, Gordon Greenwood Building
University of Queensland
St. Lucia 4072   AUSTRALIA
ORCiD ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0740-9752

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