How to

How to, Transcription

How to align overlap in CLAN (Indent)


No Comments

Indent Aligning overlapping talk automatically. You don’t need to line up the overlap markers manually. If you put all the second overlaps at the start of the sentence, CLAN will line them up for you automatically. Note: if you have not added in the overlap markers correctly, the programme will also point these mistakes out

Read More

How to, Transcription

How to color keywords in CLAN


No Comments

Colouring Keywords In some cases, it can be useful to use colours to highlight specific parts of a transcript. CLAN allows you to do this through the colouring keywords options. Here’s how: Open CLAN Go to Size/Style in the top menu and select Color Keywords. Type the string of letters/characters that you want to add

Read More

How to, Transcription

How to measure pause length in CLAN


No Comments

Measuring Pause Lengths You may wish to measure the pauses within your data. Pauses are included in the transcript as numerical values placed between parentheses between speaker turns, 54 *ROS: and you have written (0.6) five six books⇗ 55 (0.5) 56 *FRA: yeah or within a speaker’s turn. 54 *ROS: and you have written (0.6)

Read More

How to, Image

How to change image ratio in Seashore


No Comments

This tutorial shows you a way to change the ratio of your images for use on websites. You can download Seashore here: http://seashore.sourceforge.net/The_Seashore_Project/Download.html This is the final result of this tutorial.     1. Open Seashore       2. Set the height and width (ratio) of your image. In this case Width=1600 and Height=900.

Read More

How to, Transcription, Video

How to switch synched videos in CLAN


No Comments

In CLAN you have the option to switch between videos. In order for this to work properly your videos have to be synchronized and need to have the same length. See tutorials on Multiple Angles (Final Cut Pro or Premiere Pro) and Synchronization (Final Cut Pro or Premiere Pro). For this example I use the

Read More

Converter, How to, Video

How to convert videos to mp4 in Handbrake


No Comments

1. Open Handbrake       2. Find the file/folder with files you want to convert, click “Open”       3. Set format to “MP4”, set Framerate to “Same as Source”, click on “Constant Framerate”, then click “Browse”       4. Depending on the version of Handbrake you might have to save the

Read More