Researchware, Inc.

HyperRESEARCH supports text, audio, video, and picture source files in a variety of formats. You can code directly from original video, audio recordings, and pictures, as well as transcripts and other text materials.

Text:

• ASCII or plain text (.txt or .text)
• Rich text (.rtf)
• Microsoft Word (.docx)
• Open Office (.odt)
• HTML (.htm or .html)

Picture:

• GIF
• JPEG
• PNG
• Windows Bitmap (.bmp)
• PGM
• XPM
• XWD

Portable Document Format (PDF): (as of HyperRESEARCH 4.0.0 and above)

• PDF (as text if the PDF contains selectable text or has been converted to text via OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
• PDF (as image for all all PDFs)

Audio and Video source file formats supported depends upon the version of HyperRESEARCH being used. For HyperRESEARCH 4.0.3 and earlier:

Audio (most often used):

• AIFF (.aiff or .aif)
• MP3 (.mp3)
• Windows WAVE (.wav)
• Sun Audio (.au)
• AAC (.m4a)
• Windows Media Audio (.wma) - Mac OS X only
  See information on using Windows Media files

Video (most often used):

• QuickTime video (.mov)
• Video for Windows (.vfw)
• AVI (.avi)
• MPEG (.mpg and .mp4)
• Windows Media Video (.wmv) - Mac OS X only
  See information on using Windows Media files

The above is only a partial listing of the most popular audio and video formats. HyperRESEARCH uses the QuickTime library to play audio and video, and QuickTime supports many more formats. For a complete list, visit Apple's QuickTime page or see the QuickTime technical specifications.

For HyperRESEARCH 4.5.0 and above, the following cross-platform (macOS and Windows) media formats are supported. The same formats are supported in HyperTRANSCRIBE 2.0.0 and above.

Audio file formats:

• AAC Audio (iTunes, others) - acc, m4a, m4p, m4r
• AIFF Audio - aif, aifc, aiff
• Sun/NeXT Audio (AU) - au, snd
• Core Audio Format (CAF) - caf
• MP3 Audio - mp3 (This is our RECOMMENDED format for audio media)
• WAVE Audio - wav
• Apple Audiobook (Others) - m4b
• Adaptive Multi-Rate Audio - amr
• Audio Data Transport Stream - adts
• MP2 Audio - mp2

 Video file formats:

• QuickTime Movie - mov, qt
• MPEG Video - mpg, mpeg
• MPEG-2 Video - mpg, mpeg
• MPEG-4 Video (h264 Codec) - mp4
• MPEG-4 Video (AAC Codec) (iTunes, others) - m4v (This is our RECOMMENDED format for audio media)
• 3GP Video Capture - 3gp, 3g3, 3gp2, 3gpp
• Digital Camera Video (DV) - dv

Note: All but MPEG-1 under Windows requires the LAV Filters package of additional free media formats to be installed.

If you don't see your preferred format above, please contact us. We are working on new source formats and are seeking feedback from users on what new source formats will be most useful to them.