New in Transana 2.41 (Apr 27, 2010)
- A new report, the Collection Keyword Map, is available by right-clicking a Collection. This visual report is similar to the Episode Keyword Map. The Collection Keyword Map displays the clips in the same order they appear in the collection, with the horizonal axis representing Clip Order and clip duration rather than actual time.
- The Visualization window will now automatically scroll when zoomed in so that the current video position is always visible in the Visualization window.
- I added a button to the Visualization window for playback looping. If a selection is highlighted in the Visualization window, the highlighted segment will play repeatedly when the playback loop button is pressed. If no selection has been made in the visualization window, a 5 second segment will loop. Looping can only be stopped by pressing the playback loop button a second time.
- You can now copy and move Notes to parallel nodes. That is, you can copy or move a Series Note to other Series records, but not to an Episode, for example, or you can move an Episode Note to another Episode record but not to a Series record.
- You can now create a new Keyword based on text in your transcript. Just highlight the text you'd like to use as a Keyword and drag it onto a Keyword Group. The selected text will be added as a keyword in that keyword group.
- The Filter Dialog and the Color Configuration Tool now support multiple item selection.
- In the Filter Dialog, this allows you to re-order groups of items where re-ordering is allowed, and you can select and unselect groups of items more easily.
- In the Color Configuration Tool, you can re-order groups of colors and delete multiple color definitions more easily.
- Transana now supports *.m4v media files.
- The meaning of color in the Keyword Map is now user-selectable. You can choose whether color represents Clip membership, as has been true up to now in the Keyword Map, or whether color represents keyword, as it does in the Keyword Visualization. When color represents keyword, you can customize the colors used in the Filter Dialog.
- Tab size in Transcripts is now configurable. You can also turn off automatic word-wrap in the transcripts. These changes should help conversation analysts who need to indent lines or attempt other feats of horizontal formatting using fixed-width fonts.
- If you used spaces or tabs at the beginning of lines in the transcript to achieve indentation, you lost this indentation when importing a Transana *.tra file. This problem has been fixed.
- The Synchronize dialog had size problem when used with videos that had resolution of greater than 240 pixels in height. This has been fixed.
- Several users reported problems with certain transcripts following upgrade from Transana 2.30 to Transana 2.40. This revealed a bug in the code responsible for time code processing within a transcript, a bug that involved an interaction between digits in the transcript, the final time code currently placed in a transcript, and possibly the decoding of a few non-English characters in the transcript. The primary symptoms of this bug were that the user could not insert additional time codes, and time-coded segments did not play properly. These problems, while apparently rare, have been fixed.
- One user experienced problems with the database upgrade process from Transana 2.30 to Transana 2.40. New database columns were properly created but were not properly populated with default values. This caused clips created before the upgrade not to work properly. I have added code to detect this situation and compensate for it if needed.
- I experienced increasing difficulty importing transcripts, either from Rich Text Format or following Database Import. Lines of the transcript would occasionally be imported out of order. This problem was rare and sporadic, and no users ever reported it. I finally discovered a pattern of use with one data set that led to this problem occurring frequently enough that I could investigate it systematically. The problem has been resolved.