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Annotating with annotations of video #163

Closed kris-joseph closed 2 years ago

kris-joseph commented 3 years ago

I'm working with a clever graduate student who is using Scalar to annotate images as part of a digital exhibit. One of her media pieces is a YouTube video of a panel discussion, and she wants to be able to reference clips within the video.

To do this, she has annotated the video to create a clip. Then she added the video annotation as an annotation to a region on her image.

Even though the relationship is correct (the image annotation points to the video annotation), the video will only play from the beginning in the inline player. I have bee trying to figure out how to make this work, and I am stumped.

One thought I had was to import from URL using a timecode (i.e. a youtube link with a timecode parameter, as in youtube.com/videolink?t=30) but Scalar ignores this parameter and links to the full video anyway.

Is such an annotation possible in Scalar? I feel it should be.... Or is it a glitch in the inline player?

eloyer commented 3 years ago

I'm not totally following how the image comes into play, but it sounds from your description like a video annotation isn't cueing up correctly. Can you DM us a link to the annotation that's not working to anvcscalar on Twitter?

kris-joseph commented 3 years ago

We now think it's a browser issue ... it's working on Chrome but not in other browsers. I'll DM you a link to the media page where the experiment is taking place ;)

EDIT: I'm following the anvcscalar account but can't send a DM. I don't think there's any harm in sharing the example here. The image annotation on the blue sweater (right side of the image) is supposed to link to a video annotation that begins at 1:02:27 in a YouTube video.

eloyer commented 3 years ago

Sorry for the delay in responding — the edit to your comment didn't trigger a notification to us. Looking at the page now, it looks like your student is going an alternate route with edited audio instead of the annotated video... is that working out? Very creative approach, btw!