ELAN supports the following options for navigating through a document:
All Viewers are synchronized in time, i.e., when you navigate to a specific point or selection in one Viewer, all other Viewers will immediately jump to the corresponding point or selection:
To access a point in time, do one of the following:
You can omit part of the time code information:
The character preceding the milliseconds is a dot, not a colon.
Click somewhere in the Text, Subtitle, Timeline, Waveform or Grid Viewer.
The crosshair will jump to that point. By holding the ALT button
and dragging the time axis to the left or to the right you can scroll through the
annotations.
If you have made a selection (see How to make a selection), you can move the crosshair to the begin or end of that selection from anywhere within the file.
To jump to the begin, click on the button, which is part of the Selection Controls. Then the button
will show an arrow in the other direction
, which brings the crosshair to the end of the selection.
It is possible to move the crosshair back and forth step by step. To achieve this, use one of the media controls as described in The Media Player options.
If the media framework ELAN is using cannot determine the video format, you can alter the step size when using the next/previous frame control. This is useful in order to work with a “natural” frame duration, depending on the video format that is used (i.e. 25 frames/second for PAL or +/- 30 frames/second for NTSC).
Do the following:
Select an option from the menu:
ELAN allows you to list all annotations from a single tier, and then select one annotation and jump to it.
To activate the Grid Viewer, click on the Grid tab:
The structure of the Grid View window is as follows:
You can change the Grid Viewers interface at any moment by right clicking in
the Grid Viewer. A context menu will appear:
In this context menu, you can choose between the following options:
You can use the Grid Viewer window to navigate to an annotation in the ELAN window. You have the following two options:
Do the following:
A red triangle appears next to the annotation in the Grid Viewer window, and the crosshair moves to the beginning of that annotation in the ELAN window.
Do the following:
In the Grid Viewer window, all selected annotations are highlighted in light blue color. In all other windows, the corresponding time interval is selected and highlighted in light blue color (starting with the beginning of the first annotation and ending with the endpoint of the last).
Selecting a time interval also changes the current time. This happens implicitly by moving the crosshair to the begin of the annotation.
In the Interlinear Viewer, you can jump from one annotation block forward/backward to the next block. Do one of the following: