Audio and Video Subdocumenting and Indexing

The DNE audio/video editor is used for two purposes:

The DNE allows you to create, on the fly, up to 10 collections of media clips from audio or video tiles. Individual clips can be saved as subdocuments with full independent tile functionality and parent-child tracking, or a collection of clips can be saved as a session that allows you to navigate through multimedia information using the same tools you use to find information in large text files. There features are designed to make multimedia information useful in a business and research setting: turn a video recording of a workshop, seminar, focus group or talk from a single, long file that no one will sit through again into a visually navigable set of video-bites organized by speaker, or by subject, or both.

The media editor features ten topic recorders, each of which records any number of clips and sends those clips to a particular NE. The clips do not copy sections of the file, rather, they create a link to a sequence of frames within the original file, so you can create any number of clips without taking up any more memory on your system. Each clip can be saved as a tile, attached to any NE and given independent information fields. Taken together, the clips organize the source tile in the same way a table of contents or an index organizes text information, making it easy to find any particular clip within the larger session.

On the example here, clips (visually represented as the extended film clips running along each of the topic recorders) are being saved to the five of the ten different NEs, lined up on the left side of the room.