Examples of InqScribe Use
InqScribe is designed for a wide range of video analysis tasks. If you have digital video (or audio) that needs annotation or analysis, InqScribe can help.
Here are some examples of ways in which InqScribe can be used.
- Direct Transcription
- Iterative Analysis
- Timecode Tagging
- Teaching
- Presentations
- Collaborative Review
- Subtitling Gallery
Most importantly, InqScribe is flexible and does not force you to conform to a single way of working. Use it your way!
Iterative Analysis
InqScribe is very useful for what we call "iterative analysis" of media. This qualitative approach consists of researchers making a series of progressively focused analyses of an audio or video segment. This approach is often used where complete transcriptions are prohibitively expensive (in terms of time or money) or inappropriate (because the source audio and video contain cues and data that aren't captured in text).
For example, a researcher might take a first pass through classroom video footage to identify major activity segments and flag sections of the tape to be closely analyzed in the future. In InqScribe, this means inserting time codes from the video into the transcription field next to notes about the activities within the footage.
Later, the researcher can go back to the video and do formal transcription of only those segments that she needs (e.g. student small group discussion). If transcription is outsourced, she can send the InqScribe document to the transcriber so that it's clear which sections of the footage need transcription.
An important thing to note with this approach is that a single InqScribe document allows multiple levels of analysis at once. For example, the researcher could have a list of major activity start times at the top of the document, followed by a series of sentence-by-sentence transcriptions of specific sections. These sections don't even need to be in chronological order; there is no requirement that the contents of the transcript be in chronological order.