Knowledge Base

The Event Log Window

The Event Log is the window in which you score and edit your data. The Event Log is your data file.

Toolbar Buttons

• Undo (Ctrl+Z): To undo your latest entry.
• Redo (Ctrl+Y): To undo your latest correction to your Event Log.
• Check Event Log: To check for errors in the data. See Check the Event Log for Errors.
• Insert Event: To insert an event between two existing events. See Check the Event Log for Errors.
• Delete Event (Ctrl+DEL): To delete the selected event from the event log (not from the coding scheme).
• Delete Element (DEL): To delete the selected element from the event log (not from the coding scheme).
• Finish Sample (Ctrl+Enter): To finish scoring the current sample without scoring all subject-behavior combinations.
• Find (Ctrl+F): To find events. See Find Events.
• Import Video: To import video files in the current observation. Use this button also to show audio from video in the form of waveforms by selecting the Visualize Audio checkbox in the Select Video window.
• Import Audio: To import audio files in the current observation.
• Import Data: To import observational data, external data, and other types of data in the current observation. See Import Observational Data in File Management and Import External Data as Text Files in External Data.
• Settings: To open the Project Settings. See Define Project Settings in Set Up Your Project.
• Independent Variables (Alt+F3): To open the Independent Variables list.
• Offset (Ctrl+Shift+=): To synchronize video, audio, and external data files. See Manual Synchronization in External Data.
• Visualize (Alt+F8): To visualize your current observation. When you select an event line before visualizing, the video will be positioned at that moment in the visualization. See Visualize Data.
• Mouse Pointer: To deselect the zoom in or zoom out button. Available when the observation contains External Data.
• Zoom In (Ctrl+.): To zoom in the external data plot. Available when an observation contains External Data.
• Zoom Out (Ctrl+,): To zoom out the external data plot. Available when an observation contains External Data.
• Export Current Observation: To export the observation to another project in The Observer XT, Microsoft Excel, or a text file.
• Quick Help: For more information on carrying out an observation.
• View Settings: To choose which windows to display.

Customize the Event Log Window

Choose the Time Format

• Choose View Settings > Show Window > Time Formats. Hovering over the Time column displays a tooltip showing the time format.

Show or Hide Columns

By default, all elements defined in the coding scheme appear in the event log, along with a Comment column.

1. Right-click one of the column headers of the event log.
2. Select or deselect the category you want to show or hide.

If you hide a column in the Event Log, you cannot score those elements anymore. If you click the tab of that element in the Codes window, the column reappears in the event log and you can score the element again.

The Data and Audio Visualization Window

The Data and Audio Visualization window shows the data that you have scored in a Time-Event Plot. The window displays event plots for each subject with colored bars for state events, narrow vertical bars for point events, and colored dots for Instantaneous Sampling data. If you co-acquire data such as FaceReader or Biopac data, a plot for each data stream is added to the window after you stop the observation.

Data selection does not affect your plot. If you do not want to see the data of all subjects, go to View Settings > Event Visualization > Show Time-Event Plot and select the subjects of your choice.

See the Visualize Data chapter to:

• Change the time format
• Show and hide events
• Sort plots within a visualization
• Change the colors
• Customize the audio plot