Master Recorder

Topic Recorders

The media editor is composed of ten topic recorders, each of which allow you to create a clip or collections of clips, each of which refer to a segment of the source recording. Clips are recorded by topic recorders. You can save an individual clip as a subdocument tile or can save a collection of clips as a media session tile.

A clip provides quick access to a relevant highlight from a meeting, presentation, focus group or any other multimedia information source. Because each clip is a link to segment in the source file, rather than a copy of the a portion of the file, you can create any number of clips without taxing your computer's memory. And since every clip can be saved as a tile, a clip can be given full tile functionality, including independent fields and independent NE affiliations.

If you save a clip as a subdocument tile, the tile can be attached to any NE. Because subdocument tiles are child tiles for which the DNE tracks the parent (the source recording from which the clip was taken), the original context for any comment is never lost.

Multi-line recordings can also be saved as sessions. Session tiles allow you to navigate through multimedia information visually and with the aid of a table of contents. For example, if, in an hour-long meeting, five participants discuss five different subject, you can create an NE for each participant and for each different subject, devote a topic recorder to each contributor, and another topic recorder to each subject, and end up with the entire meeting chunked into several collections of topics cross-referenced by both speaker and subject. Each topic recorder tracks all the clips created on that line in its table of contents, making the clip you want only a mouseclick away.