Play Analysis

When you create recordings in Landro, they are referred to as "Programs." Programs are stored on your Landro Media Servers, and can be randomly accessed with the Play Analyzer software. You could think of a Program as similar to a recording on a video tape. One tape might contain one or two different recordings, or programs. Unlike video tape, Landro can store thousands of programs.

When using video tapes, it is common practice to write information on the tape to help identify it later.

In Landro, this information is referred to as "Program Properties." Landro allows you to digitally add these program properties--properties specific to your needs--using simple dropdown lists. These properties can then be used to locate, sort, and analyze your programs, so that you can always quickly find exactly what you are looking for.

Program properties provide a great improvement over traditional digital recording systems, but Landro goes a step further. With Landro, you can also mark important sections within a program. These sections are referred to "Play Segments," or simply "Plays." Plays are similar to bookmarks that mark important spots. However, unlike bookmarks, Plays have a start and an end point. This allows you to mark a segment of video (for instance, 30 seconds) as important, instead of just a starting spot.

Like programs, you can also assign information to plays. This information is referred to as "Play Properties." You assign play properties using simple dropdown lists. This process of marking plays and adding play properties is called "Breaking down the video," or simply "Breakdown."

By using a combination of program and play properties, Landro allows you to quickly and easily find one or more short segments of video among thousands of hours of recordings.

The Program List Screen

The Program List screen provides a simple, yet extremely powerful way to find, play, and analyze you programs. In a few simple clicks you can perform advanced multilevel filtering and analysis without worrying about creating complicated queries or searches.

Video Window

The video window is available in several of the play analysis screens, and provides a consistent method for watching and navigating programs or lists of plays.

The video window provides several simple controls:

Time bar - Jump to any position in the video, either by dragging the slider or by clicking on a point on the bar.

Replay - Restart the current play.

Previous play - Jump to the previous play among those currently being viewed.

Play / Pause - Resume playback if it is paused, or pause playback if it is playing.

Next play - Jump to the next play among those currently being viewed.

Loop - Continuous loop of just the current play.

Volume - Adjust the volume level by dragging the slider. This volume is relative to the system volume setting.

Play selector - Jump directly to a specific play.

Maximize / Restore - Enlarge the video window to use the full screen, or restore it to its regular size.

Dock / Undock - "Dock" or "Undock" the Video Window from the Landro Play Analyzer main window. Once the Video Window is undocked, it can be resized and positioned anywhere on the screen. Also, while undocked, the video's audio will remain active, even if you switch to another application.

Pin / Unpin - When the Video Window is undocked, "Pinning" the window will cause it to be displayed on top of any other application, even if it is not the active application.

Tip: Double-clicking in the video window will enter or exit full screen mode.

Tip: The Escape key (Esc) will exit full screen mode.

Selection Tasks

The Selection Tasks window lists the possible actions for the currently selected item (Program, Theme, etc.). Click a specific task to perform the desired action.

For instance, clicking on a program in the Program List will display one set of actions:

Clicking on a theme in the Favorites List will display another set of actions:

Tip: Right clicking on any item will display a popup menu with the same list of actions.

Program List

The Program List window lists all of the programs that you have permission to view. Programs in the list can be grouped, sorted, filtered, and manually selected to allow you to view only the programs of interest to you.

Programs listed alphabetically:

Programs grouped by "Class:"

Icon Legend: Program Program is playing Program is selected Program is selected and playing

To perform and action on a program (such as playing the program), click to select the program. To perform an action on a group of programs (i.e. analyze plays in multiple programs), click on a program folder (see Grouping).

Program Tasks

(Not all tasks apply to program folders, and not all tasks are available to all users.)

• Add to Selections: Add the selected program(s) to your selection list (see Creating a Selection List).
• Remove from Selections: Remove the selected program(s) from your selection list
  (see Creating a Selection List).
• Play: Display the selected program in the preview window, or full screen.
• Go to Analysis Center: Use the plays of the selected programs in the Analysis Center.
• Go to Play List: Use the plays of the selected programs In the Play List.
• Edit Properties: Edit the program properties for the selected program.
• Breakdown: Add/Edit the play properties for the selected program (called "Breaking down" the program).
• Delete: Permanently delete the selected program.
• Save to Cart: Save the plays of the selected programs to the Video Cart.
• Save to Spreadsheet: Save information about the plays of the selected programs to an Excel® spreadsheet (see Creating Spreadsheets).
• Save to My Computer: Save the plays of the selected programs to a file on your computer (see Exporting Programs and Plays).

Program Themes

Program Themes provide a simple way to quickly group and filter your programs.

A theme can affect the Program List in one or more of the following ways:

• Programs can be grouped into categories (see Grouping).
• Programs can be filtered to show only a subset of the available programs (see Filtering).

See Theme Manager for information on creating your own program themes.

The following types of program themes are available:

• All Programs: Shows all available programs.
• Selections: Shows only the programs in the current selection (see Creating a Selection List).
• Auto Program Themes: These themes are created automatically based on the program properties in your Playbook. Selecting one of these themes will group the your programs by the selected property.
• My Themes: These are custom themes that you can create that can include filtering and/or grouping. (See Theme Manager).
• Shared Themes: Like "My Themes," except these themes are shared by all users. Additionally, other folders of shared themes can be created in addition to the "Shared Themes" folder.

Favorite Themes

The Favorite Themes List displays a list of all the Play Themes and Analysis Themes that you have selected as your favorites. (See Theme Manager for information on creating your own themes.)

Icon Legend: Play Theme Play Theme is playing Play Grid Tendency Locator Indexer Theme

Play Themes and Analysis Themes differ from Program Themes in that they display Play Segment results for the selected programs in the Program List. For example, suppose you select "Entire List" in the Program list. You can then see that there are 316 play segments, total, in all of the programs in your list (as shown by the "All Plays" theme). Additionally, you can see that there are 53 of plays matching the "Interrogative Questions" theme.

Now, if you select a single program in the Program List, you can see that the themes now show results for only that program.

Theme Tasks

(Not all tasks apply to all theme types, and not all tasks are available to all users.)

• Play: Display the selected plays in the preview window, or full screen.
• Edit: Edit the theme (see Theme Manager).
• Remove as Favorite: Remove theme from favorite list.
• Go to Analysis Center: Use the selected play in the Analysis Center.
• Go to Play List: Use the selected plays In the Play List.
• Save to Cart: Save the selected plays to the Video Cart.
• Save to Spreadsheet: Save information about the selected plays to an Excel® spreadsheet (see Creating Spreadsheets).
• Save to My Computer: Save the selected plays to a file on your computer (see Exporting Programs and Plays).

Tip: Double-clicking a Play Theme will display those plays in full screen mode. Double-clicking an Analysis Theme will show you an analysis of all the plays in the selected programs (see Analysis Center).

Quick Analysis

In addition to quick access to your favorite play and analysis themes, Landro Play Analyzer also allows you to quickly categorize plays by any single play property.

Start by selecting one or more programs in the Program List. Click open the "Favorite Themes" dropdown list and select a play property. The number of plays assigned to each value of that property is displayed.

Tip: Clicking the "Plays" or "Theme" column title will sort the results list.

Grouping and Sorting

Grouping and Sorting allow you control how programs are displayed in the Program List.

Grouping:

Grouping allows you to organize your programs by grouping together common program properties. To change the program grouping, click open the "Group By" dropdown list. Select a program property. The programs assigned to each value of that property will be grouped together.

Tip: Selecting a Program Theme that contains grouping information will automatically change the "Group By" choice.

Sorting:

Sorting allows you sort your programs by their name, or any single program property. Sorting occurs only within each program group. If you select to sort on a property other then the program name, the value of that property will be shown to the right of the program name.

Filtering

In addition to the quick program access provided by themes and grouping, Landro Play Analyzer also allows you to manually filter your Program List by one or more program properties. Filtering causes the Program List to display only the programs that match the properties that you choose.

To filter your programs, click the "Filter" link above the Program List. Click open the dropdown list for desired property and select a property value. The Program List will be updated with the results of the filter as you select each property value.

Filter property window:

Programs filtered by "2008, semester 1:"

To cancel the filter, click the 'Cancel Filter' link above the Program List.

Tip: Selecting a program theme will change your filter. This allows you to use a program theme as a starting point, and then add or remove properties to fine-tune your filter.

Creating a selection List

A selection list is a temporary list of one or more manually selected programs. You might create a selection list if you would like to select several unrelated programs and perform some type of action on them.

To create a selection list, click a program or program folder. Click "Add to Selections" in the Selection Tasks window. Click "Remove from Selections" to remove the program or program folder from your selection list. To view only your selected programs, click the "Selections" theme in the Program Theme list.

Advanced Analysis Example

In this section we will demonstrate the power and simplicity of Landro Play Analyzer. For this example, we will quickly find a few very specific sections of video by using a combination of Themes, Filtering, and Selections.

Click the "Class" auto program theme. Your programs are now grouped by each Class.

Open the Filter window, and select "01" for the "Semester" property. This will filter the program list to only display programs that occurred in Semester 1.

Now that we have uncluttered the program list we are able to easily spot the programs we are interested in. In this case the two programs are unrelated, since they are from two different classes. Add each program to the selection list by selecting it and clicking "Add to Selections." The "Selections" program theme now shows that you have two programs selected.

Click the "Selections" program theme to only display the selected programs.

Click "All Selections" in the Program List so that you can analyze the two programs together.

Double-click the "Interrogative Questions" play theme to watch the 7 play segments found in the two selected programs.

Program Properties Screen

The Program Properties window allows you to edit the properties you assign to a program. Program properties are created in the Playbook.

To edit the properties for a program, select the program from the Program List Screen. Click the "Edit Properties" task (see Program Tasks). The Program Properties screen is displayed. Edit the program name (if required). Change the Media Folder (if required) by clicking open the media folder dropdown list and selecting a different folder. (The Media Folder determines which users will have access to this program, accoring to the permissions established using the Landro Administrator tool.) Change any property value by clicking open the property dropdown list and selecting a value. Click "Save" to save your changes, or "Cancel" to exit without saving your changes.

Play List Screen

The Play List screen is nearly identical to the Program List screen, with the following exceptions:

• The Play List window displays only the plays from program(s) selected on the Program List screen.
• Program Themes are replaced by Play Themes.
• Plays are filtered by Play Properties.

Analysis Center Screen

The Analysis center is accessed either from the Program List or Play List screens. The Analysis Center is a collection of user-defined, interactive reports that allow you to quickly and easily spot tendencies and trends. It is important to note that the Analysis Center only displays the subset of plays that you selected on the previous screen.

Analysis Tasks

The Analysis Tasks window lists possible actions for the analysis as a whole. Click a specific task to perform the desired action.

Analysis Tasks include:

• Show as Percent: Display the number of Plays as a percentage of the total instead of the actual count.
• Show Unclassified: Include "Unclassified" data in the analysis. Unclassified data is program or play properties where no value has been selected; see Program Properties and Breakdown).
• Save All to Spreadsheet: Save the entire analysis (as you see it on the screen) to an Excel® spreadsheet.
• Favorite Theme: Add or remove the current analysis to your favorite themes.

Selection Tasks

The Selection Tasks window lists the possible actions for the currently selected plays, or folder of plays. Selection Tasks include:

• Play: Display the selected plays in the preview window, or full screen.
• Save to Cart: Save the selected plays to the Video Cart.
• Save to Spreadsheet: Save information about the selected plays to an Excel® spreadsheet (see Creating Spreadsheets).
• Save to My Computer: Save the selected plays to a file on your computer (see Exporting Programs and Plays).

Tip: Right-clicking on a group of plays will display a popup menu with the same list of actions. Double-clicking on a group or plays will display those plays in full screen mode.

Selecting an Analysis

To select a different analysis, click open the "Select Analysis" dropdown list.

In the dropdown list, analysis are grouped into folders of "My Themes" and one or more "Shared Themes" folders (see Theme Manager). Click to select the analysis you wish to view.

Tip: Selecting "Configure List" at the bottom of the dropdown list will take you directly to the Theme Manager.

Analysis Window

The analysis window displays the currently selected analysis. The way each analysis is displayed and the way you interact with it depends on its type.

Indexer:

The Indexer is a built-in analysis (not defined by the user) that groups and arranges all your plays like the index of a book.

Plays are first grouped by Program and Play properties. Each individual property is then grouped. Finally, the number of plays for each value of that property is listed. In this example you can see that 119 of the total plays (total plays selected from the Program List) occurred in 2007. Also, 54 plays were categorized as having the Basic Skill "Summarizing." Note that these two totals are not interdependent.

Important: The same plays might be included in several different totals in the Indexer. The reason is that each play can have many properties assigned to it, so it will be included in the total\ for each of its properties. For example, suppose a play is classified as having a "Basic Skill" of "Summarizing," and an "Opening Skill" of "Interrogative." In this case, that play would be included in both the "Summarizing" and "Interrogative" totals.

Play Grid:

The Play Grid is a user-definable "spreadsheet" view relating two program or play properties. The Play Grid allows you to spot tendencies (ex. what was the most used Basic Skill?) and relationships between properties (ex. Which clinician had the most examples of Confrontation?).

In this example, by sorting on the "Clinician 101" column, we can see that for Clinician 101, "Reflecting Feelings" is the most commonly used basic skill.

Tip: Click on a column title to sort on that column. Click again to reverse the sort on that column.

Tendency Locator:

The Tendency Locator is a user definable analysis that enables you to find relationships between 3 different program or play properties.

The Tendency Locator displays three columns, one for each of three properties. Each column displays the number of plays assigned to each value for that property. What makes the Tendency Locator so powerful is that each column is dependent on the selection you have made in the column to its left.

This can be more easily explained with an example:

In this example we have selected Supervisor 18, who has 39 totals plays assigned (of the plays selected from the Program List). We can then see that, of his 39 plays, 36 of those are related to Clinician 101, and 3 are for Clinician 121. Additionally, of Clinician 101's 36 plays, 19 of those are for Client 1021, and 17 are for Client 1011.

Previewing Plays

The Analysis Center includes a separate screen for previewing plays. This allows Landro to provide as much screen space as possible for the analysis data. Since each analysis only displays a total of plays (ex. 53 plays for year 2008), the preview screen is provided to list all the plays that make up that total. In this way you can interact with each play individually.

In addition to watching the plays, you can perform the following tasks on the entire group of plays (by selecting "All Plays"), or any single play (by selecting that play):

• Save to Cart: Save the selected plays to the Video Cart.
• Save to Spreadsheet: Save information about the selected plays to an Excel® spreadsheet (see Creating Spreadsheets).
• Save to My Computer: Save the selected plays to a file on your computer (see Exporting Programs and Plays).

Tip: Click any play to jump to that play.

Breakdown Screen

The Breakdown screen allows you to add or edit Play Segments, and edit Play Properties.

The Timeline

The Breakdown screen includes the Video Window, as with several other screens, but it includes one additional element, the Timeline. The Timeline provides a close-up, or zoomed in view of the Plays that exist in your program. Plays in the timeline are displayed as "bubbles," with the current play appearing depressed. The Timeline only represents 60 seconds of the entire program; the current viewing time is represented by a vertical gray bar in the center of the timeline which does not move. The timeline scrolls from right to left (past the center marker) as the program advances, displaying those plays within 30 seconds in the past and 30 seconds in the future. A green vertical bar marks the beginning of the program, and a red vertical bar marks the end.

Click any spot on the timeline to jump to that position in the program. (Note that in loop mode, clicking outside any play will jump to the start of the closest play). Right-click any play to jump to the start of that play.

Creating Plays

To create a new play, position the program using the time bar or the timeline. Click the "Set" button. Set any desired play properties (optional). After the new play is the desired length, click the "End" button.

Tip: After setting the start of the play, clicking the "Pause" button will give you more time to enter play properties. Then, un-pause to allow the program to advance to the desired end point of the play.

Tip: Any play properties you assign while between plays will "take" when the next new play is started with "Set."

Editing Plays

To edit an existing play, select the play using the time bar, timeline, or play selection list. Change the desired play properties by clicking open the property dropdown list, and selecting a property value. You can also edit the play's start and end points using the "Start / End Frame" controls.

Tip: Pausing the program, or playing the program in loop mode will allow you more time to edit the play (see Video Window).

Deleting Plays

To delete an existing play, select the play using the time bar, timeline, or play selection list. Click the "Delete" button, then confirm the deletion of the play.

This is only removing the play markers (and any play properties you have assigned to that play). Deleting a play does not remove the video from the program.

Finishing Breakdown

When you are finished adding or editing plays, simply exit the Breakdown screen. All your changes are automatically saved.

Creating Spreadsheets

Several screens allow you to create Excel® spreadsheets from your play property data. This allows you to do further analysis on your data, or to import your data into other applications.

Saving a Spreadsheet

To save Landro play information to a spreadsheet, select the plays of interest. (The way you do this varies by screen). Click "Save to Spreadsheet." The "Save to Spreadsheet" screen is displayed. Select the play properties you would like contained in the spreadsheet using the "Add / Remove Properties" buttons. Optionally reorder the properties by using the "Arrange Properties" buttons.

Click the "Save" button. A file save dialog will be displayed. Select a location and file name for the spreadsheet file.

Tip: You can also save a comma delimited "CSV" file to use the data in other applications than Excel. To save a CSV file, click open the "Save as type" dropdown list in the file save dialog and choose "Generic Files."

Exporting Programs and Plays

Several screens allow you to export groups of plays to a new video file created on your computer. Additionally, you can also export entire programs and save them to your computer. In either case, the video is saved in MPEG-2 format (a .MPG file). This file format can be played in a variety of media players and used in a variety of presentation and video editing programs.

Exporting Plays

To export plays to a new file, select the plays of interest. (The way you do this varies by screen). Click "Save to My Computer." A file save dialog will be displayed. Select a location and file name for the new file.

Exporting Entire Programs

To export an entire program, right-click the program of interest from the Program List screen. Select "Export File" from the popup menu. A file save dialog will be displayed. Select a location and file name for the new file.

Tip: You can also create an MP3 file, which includes just the audio portion of the program, or a Landro Media file, which includes the video and audio as well as all of your program and play properties. To save a different file type, click open the "Save as Type" dropdown box in the file save dialog and select a different file type.

 
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