App: Observing-V
Developer: Gerhard Fassnacht
Genres: Photo & Video, Productivity

• Purpose: Coding and analysing video recordings. Examples: scientific analysis of human or animal behaviour, analysing and assessing television reports or programmes, monitoring progress in sport activity, … every videotaped events, that should be converted into data for documentation and for further processing like statistics.

• Coding is done by means of code-systems the user tailors to match exactly the needs of his investigation. Setup of a code-system in a couple of minutes.

• Intuitive layouts. Additional 'in-window' infos making superfluous accessing the software's manual most of the time.

• Integrated demo video that comes pre-coded and may be used to test the software's processing feature. The demo video may be used also to exercise coding and to test user's self-made coding-system or the Observing-v's proposed coding-system.

• Key features:
  > Terms to describe observations can be generated ad libitum
  > Each term is laid down in a central depository called the Catalogue
  > Terms can be edited, deleted and classified at any time
  > Terms can be classified deliberately into a Code-System
  > A general content-free Code-System is provided
  > A Lexicon is available to exemplify and define Catalogue terms
  > Camouflage of data to protect privacy

  > A particular Template is used to characterise an Observation Task
  > The number of Templates is unlimited
  > Easy setup of a Template in a couple of minutes
  > Templates can be copied and edited
  > An observation Session, i.e. observing and coding, is started by calling a Template

  > Catalogue, Lexicon and Templates are covered in a Project
  > A Project may contain more than one template (observation task)
  > Number of Projects a user can set up is unlimited
  > Projects are saved and accessed discretely
  > User's access to his projects is protected by user name und user password
  > Number of users is unlimited - no additional fees
  
  > Coding of observations with one mouse click
  > Coding may be stopped and resumed at any time
  > Local date and real time tagging of data
  > Computation and graphics of descriptive statistics
  > Filtering of data
  > Data export

Release notes:
Bug fixes, Info text updated