AutoVideoscript is a simple software tool I programmed to transcribe video data. With a few clicks it creates a ready to use transcription of your video sequence and exports it as a MS Word document. All you need is a photogram series. AutoVideoscript transcriptions are based on the MoViQ system (Hampl, 2010; Przyborski & Wohlrab-Sahr, 2009) which is the standard for video analysis in the documentary method (Dokumentarische Methode) by German sociologist Ralf Bohnsack (2008, 2013). But you can also use the AutoVideoscript transcriptions to perform a content analysis or conversation analysis. I used the software to study the creation of visual narratives by protester-police interaction (Neuber 2014, 2018). Whether in large scale research projects or in student papers using visual methods, using AutoVideoscript will be a big time saver. AutoVideoscript is the perfect solution for the transcription problem in video analysis.
Available platforms:
- Microsoft Windows
- MacOS
Download the latest beta of AutoVideoscript (1.3.3) for Microsoft Windows.
Please feel free to contact me if you have questions or need a different version of the software.
AutoVideoscript is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Literature
Bohnsack, R., 2008. The Interpretation of Pictures and the Documentary Method. Forum: Qualitative Social Research 9 Bohnsack, R., 2013. Documentary Method, in: Flick, U. (Ed.), The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Data Analysis. SAGE Publications Ltd, pp. 217–233. Hampl, S., 2010. Videos interpretieren und darstellen. Die dokumentarische Methode. In F. Corsten, M. Krug, & C. Moritz (Hrsg.), Videographie praktizieren. Herangehensweisen, Möglichkeiten und Grenzen. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, pp. 53–88 Neuber, M., 2018). Commedia del Conflitto. Der Körper als Medium das Protesthandelns. [Commedia del Conflitto. The Body as a Medium of Protest Action]. doctoral thesis, Berlin: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Neuber, M., 2014. Choreografie des Protesthandelns. Körper als Medium politischen Protests [Choreography of Protest Action: The Body as a Medium of Political Protest]. In: Bohnsack, Ralf; Fritzsche, Bettina; Wagner-Willi, Monika (Ed.): Dokumentarische Video- und Filminterpretation. Methodologie und Forschungspraxis. Barbara Budrich: Opladen & Farmington Hills, pp. 413-442. Przyborski, A., & Wohlrab-Sahr, M., 2009. Qualitative Sozialforschung. Ein Arbeitsbuch. (2., korrigierte Aufl.). München: Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag.