I've used Noldus Observer before, but can't afford it now. I'm not sure that it matters, but this is for scoring frequencies and durations of rodent behaviors within neuroscience/ethology studies using digitally recorded videos.
I'd like to have the capability of running simultaneous timers that can be independent or dependent on one another (depending on my optimizations), while also being able to tally frequencies of select behaviors/events independently. Ideally, the tallying and/or starting or stopping of timers would be tied to selected (ideally programmable) keystrokes.
CowLog http://cowlog.org/
Also, ImageJ, IIDT, Matlab and R have free tracking software.
We used to use Chronoviz (but it is no longer supported on our newer mac laptops - it worked great on our older laptops and mac desktops): https://chronoviz.com/
We are now beginning to use ELAN: https://archive.mpi.nl/tla/elan
(but perhaps we will try cowlog also - as we prefered Chronoviz).
Also exciting - we are starting to use Deep Lab Cut: http://www.mousemotorlab.org/deeplabcut
for training deep nets to do some of our analyses.
You may want to check out the following thread, which provided a number of useful options in the past:
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Can_anyone_suggest_a_software_to_extract_behavioral_variables_from_a_video
Steven uses Boris I think! I've not used it, but I think he likes it!
I used BORIS, a free and open-source software. it allows you to run simultaneous timers independent or dependent on each other, it calculates the frequencies of behaviors. the keys related to the behaviors are easily programmable as well as the mutual exclusion of the variables between them, if needed.
https://www.boris.unito.it/
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