MAXQDA supports the transcription of audio and video data with basic functions. For example, you can define the playback speed, volume, and rewind interval. In addition, you can insert timestamps into your transcripts to create a link between transcript and voice-over. In addition, with MAXQDA you can work with transcripts that were created with the software f4 / f5, wherein the existing timestamps will be converted into MAXQDA internal timestamps.

MAXQDA allows you to code audio and video files directly without having to provide a transcript. The coded segments are treated like any other segments in MAXQDA. You can retrieve, comment and assign a weight to these segments in the same way as with other segments. With the help of these MAXQDA functions, you can analyze a wide range of different types of data – text, tables, PDFs, audio and video files – all within the same program.