Using digital video as a research tool

Dr. Ken Knibb

Lecturer from the School of Multimedia and Learning Technologies

Edith Cowan University

Objectives/Outcomes:

The author has developed new multimedia software tools that can be used to code and analyse digital video. Videos from a video cassette recorder or video camera can be digitised and stored on a computer as QuickTime movies. Codes and labels can be attached to any section of the digitised video quickly and easily. Instances of codes or events can be represented graphically in time. Instances of video events from anywhere in the movie can be retrieved and viewed in a fraction of second. Video segments can be organised and grouped, and exported to video data bases. This software is likely to be useful to researchers who would like to use or are currently using video in their research. The main objectives of the workshop are to demonstrate these software tools, discuss issues related to using the software and then to work through activities in which participants use the software to digitise, code and analyse video.

Intended Level of Presentation:

Introductory to intermediate.

Max./Min. Number of Participants:

Maximum 8, Minimum 5