Feature: Navigation by slide transitions

[jondo]

It would be good to be able to somehow use the slide thumbnails for navigation in the editor.

(Related to https://github.com/opencast/opencast-editor/issues/596 ?)

[Arnei]

I reckon you mean something like the little preview you get when hovering over play bar in modern video players?

Personally I don't really see the use of it in an editor, but I'm open to being persuaded :D

[jondo]

Our use case would be to cut a video exactly at a slide transition. Currently this location is cumbersome to find.

[lkiesow]

So, it's less navigation by thumbnails and more a navigation by slide transitions detected via segment-video. I could see that it would be useful to turn transitions into cut marks. I'm just not exactly sure about a proper user interface for this, though.

[mtneug]

Would a frame-by-frame navigation shortcut help? YouTube uses , and . (next to each other on the English keyboard) on paused videos for navigating by frame.

[jondo]

Unfortunately, having to find the transaction via frame-by-frame sounds not much better than the current situation.

[lkiesow]

I think this is more about quickly finding these segments than about accurate navigation, isn't it?

Assuming I have the following video:

If I had access to the detected segments in the editor, I could quickly identify a segment that I want to remove, jump to that segment and cut it out.

[jondo]

@lkiesow , yes, that's exactly our use case, thank you!