[RNLD List] Fwd: [EXT] [ELAN-list] Release of Simple-ELAN 1.4 and some notes on ELAN 6.1 and 6.2

[Nick Thieberger]

 Dear all,

A maintenance update of Simple-ELAN has been released, these are the
main changes:

- the video image in some cases doesn't scale properly, not even after
resizing with the vertical divider.
   This hopefully improved and otherwise the extended logging might help
troubleshoot the problem.
- if possible, a waveform is shown even if only a video file has been
linked (see notes below)
- some minor changes and fixes in the VLC based player have been applied
- includes a newer version of Java (14)

Some notes on ELAN 6.1 and 6.2 on macOS:

1) The new feature of waveform visualization directly from a video file
(so without .wav file) appears to be problematic on some macOS systems.
In ELAN 6.1 the user interface can become unresponsive (requiring a
Force Quit), in 6.2 this situation is detected and the waveform will
show a flat line (allowing to save the file and close the window). There
are two possible solutions:
   - if the waveform is not required, disable the Signal Viewer via
View->Viewer->Signal Viewer
   - extract a .wav file from the video and add it to the linked files,
like in all versions before 6.1

2) Interaction with Praat (like opening a selection in Praat) might
suddenly stop working, without error messages. A new version of the ELAN
6.2 distribution (uploaded on July 13) will cause macOS to ask the user
to grant permission to ELAN to interact with Praat. This permission only
needs to be given once.


The release notes can be found on the ELAN release notes page:
https://archive.mpi.nl/tla/elan/release-notes

Simple-ELAN can be downloaded from the ELAN download page:
https://archive.mpi.nl/tla/elan/download


Best wishes,

- The Language Archive -
- MPI for Psycholinguistics -
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