{"id":73,"date":"2016-02-22T15:40:15","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T15:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/?p=73"},"modified":"2016-03-11T11:30:27","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T11:30:27","slug":"recap-channels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/2016\/02\/22\/recap-channels\/","title":{"rendered":"Video annotation – the collaborative way"},"content":{"rendered":"

Creating videos by putting together clips from a collection of recordings is a time consuming task.\u00a0 Our colleagues in Digital Media help us by providing a rough cut of the raw footage with a hard-baked timestamp on the recording.\u00a0 Our job is to sift through this to find the bits we want. You\u2019ll imagine though that this involves a lot of seeking backward and forward through a video with frequent pauses to note down timestamps. Our colleague Mike Cameron<\/a> (now at Bristol) battled with this last year and cleverly anticipated that ReCap had the potential to make life easier.<\/p>\n

What we want to do is not that dissimilar from a group of students collaboratively annotating a lecture.\u00a0 Things that really help us, like our undergraduate counterparts, are searchable bookmarks, the ability to play content fast (never let it be said that students would ever listen to lecturers at 2x speed), and the ability to rewind.<\/p>\n

Following a speedy consult with colleagues in team ReCap we requested a PCAP folder with permissions at the folder level for all of the team \u2013 that\u2019s Digital Media, LTDS and Academic colleagues.<\/p>\n

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Uploading video was a doddle using the “Create” button, then we needed some conventions for the \u201cChannel<\/a>\u201d we planned on using for collaborative notetaking. \u00a0Channel names aren’t listed (presumably some form of security by obscurity thing) so we decided to name our shared annotations\u00a0\u201cteam\u201d (in lowercase) and to annotate the start of any piece of dialogue with the speakers initials, the topic, and whether the delivery was good. If Nuala Davis gave a poor answer on Widgetology we\u2019d put<\/p>\n

ND-widgetology-no<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In\u00a0 a 40 minute interview it\u2019s great to be able to scan and jump to the real gen on Widgetology just by clicking on the annotation. \u00a0By way of example here\u2019s what we get one of our videos using the keyword “good”.<\/p>\n

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What\u2019s particularly great about this is<\/p>\n