QuickTime (Pro)
Most people who use video for analysis think of QuickTime only as an option for playing back their video. However, QuickTime also has a host of built in features that can be quite helpful and avoid the need to use a high-end video editing tool, particularly if you have QuickTime Pro. I still use other tools, but for quick edits and the like, it is far easier to take care of them right inside of QuickTime. Specifically, QuickTime let’s you trim a movie or combine movies (sequentially or on different layers), export the entire movie or just the audio track, save the movie or audio in a number of different formats, watch only a selected section (this is particularly useful when you are reviewing a small section in the middle of the video), jump directly to a specific point, add bookmarks, and more. If you want to edit subtitles by hand, that is also an option, though I find Inqscribe to be much easier for that.
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Tags: Quicktime, Technology, video data
Academic Tools | Joshua July 29, 2009 | 
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A big part of my research involves video data which means that I spend a lot of time transcribing video for analysis and to use as examples in presentations. To help with transcription I use 