What video and audio formats does Transana support?
Starting with Transana 2.20, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, most AVI video, and QuickTime MOV and MP4 formats, as well as MP3 and WAV audio, are supported on both Windows and OS X, and Windows Media Video, WMV, and Windows Media Audio, WMA, formats are supported on Windows only. Transana 2.41 adds support for M4V format. Transana might also work with additional formats. There are two issues. First, does the media file play in the media player Transana will use? On OS X, Transana will use the QuickTime player for all formats. On Windows, Transana will use the QuickTime player for *.mov and *.mp4 video files and will use Windows Media Player for other media formats. If the media file will not play in the media player, it won’t work in Transana. (The problem might be resolved by installing the correct codec, but that’s not a Transana issue!) Second, Transana needs to be able to extract the audio from your media file so that it can create the waveform file displayed in the Visualization Window. It can do
Starting with Transana 2.20, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, most AVI video, and QuickTime MOV and MP4 formats, as well as MP3 and WAV audio, are supported on both Windows and OS X, and Windows Media Video, WMV, and Windows Media Audio, WMA, formats are supported on Windows only. Transana 2.41 adds support for M4V format. Transana 2.42 adds support for AAC audio format. Transana might also work with additional formats. There are two issues. First, does the media file play in the media player Transana will use? On OS X, Transana will use the QuickTime player for all formats. On Windows, Transana will use the QuickTime player for *.mov, *.mp4, and *.m4v video files and will use Windows Media Player for other media formats. If the media file will not play in the media player, it won’t work in Transana. (The problem might be resolved by installing the correct codec, but that’s not a Transana issue!) Second, Transana needs to be able to extract the audio from your media file so that it can create the wavef