I am looking for ''cookbook'' setup information to get ELAN (the language annotation software from the Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics) to work properly with high-definition video on Windows Vista. I have TMPGEnc Xpress, the AVCHD-to-MPEG converter software recommended in the ELAN ''Getting Started'' guide -- but the guide was written in 2005 and doesn't say anything about high-definition requirements. I know I need a fixed-bitrate encoding for the media file supplied to ELAN. But what else? I have no idea what codec is recommended. The QuickTime MPEG-2 codec enables frame-by-frame video movement, but it doesn't maintain synchronization with the audio after more than a few frames, even though I include audio in the MPEG-2 file and configure ELAN's preferences to move to the start of each frame (rather than by msecs). Any ELAN experts out there?
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These are really questions for the Elan forum (http://www.lat-mpi.eu/tools/elan/elanforum/simpleforum_view). The developers respond regularly and there's a community there with much more experience with these sorts of issues. (One thing I can help with is that the frame-by-frame synchronization is possibly a memory buffer problem)
