Bug#847644: RFP: ELAN -- A professional tool for the creation of complex annotations on video and audio resources
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
https://tla.mpi.nl/tools/tla-tools/elan/
With ELAN a user can add an unlimited number of annotations to audio and/or
video streams. An annotation can be a sentence, word or gloss, a comment,
translation or a description of any feature observed in the media. Annotations
can be created on multiple layers, called tiers. Tiers can be hierarchically
interconnected. An annotation can either be time-aligned to the media or it can
refer to other existing annotations. The textual content of annotations is
always in Unicode and the transcription is stored in an XML format.
ELAN provides several different views on the annotations, each view is connected
and synchronized to the media playhead. Up to 4 video files can be associated
with an annotation document. Each video can be integrated in the main document
window or displayed in its own resizable window.
ELAN delegates media playback to an existing media framework, like Windows Media
Player, QuickTime or JMF (Java Media Framework). As a result a wide variety of
audio and video formats is supported and high performance media playback can be
achieved.
ELAN is written in the Java programming language and the sources are available
under a GPL 3 license. It runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
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