ELAN 4.9.4

Software to create complex annotations on video or audio files

ELAN is a professional tool for the creation of complex annotations on video and audio resources.

You can add an unlimited number of annotations to audio and/or video streams. An annotation can be a sentence, word or gloss, a comment, translation or a description of any feature observed in the media. Annotations can be created on multiple layers, called tiers. Tiers can be hierarchically interconnected. An annotation can either be time-aligned to the media or it can refer to other existing annotations. The textual content of annotations is always in Unicode and the transcription is stored in an XML format.

ELAN provides several different views on the annotations, each view is connected and synchronized to the media playhead.