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Re: This Week on Channel 9: April 17th Episode

Dan — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:38:50 GMT

Bas wrote:

That's pretty cool, it'd be sort of a variation of the clip recording tool we (used to?) have. Except a bit more useful. It'd be great if you guys could pre-tag them with 'chapters', because as you said, especially in some of the longer videos you sometimes just want to see the demo or whiteboarding to see if whatever the video is about is of interest to you.

Definitely agree on pre-tagging, the only other thing I would want is URI-based tagging so that way I can email/IM someone a URL that would start on a specific tag.

Re: This Week on Channel 9: April 17th Episode

Bas — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:51:47 GMT

Dan wrote:

Viddler.com has a very cool player that JeffSand turned me on to, check out :
http://www.viddler.com/explore/ijustine/videos/293/

It's player has a way for *anyone* to tag a timeline and description for something interesting in a video. This would be great for us and for fellow C9'ers to be able to tag parts of a conversation or demo that they found interesting.

That's pretty cool, it'd be sort of a variation of the clip recording tool we (used to?) have. Except a bit more useful. It'd be great if you guys could pre-tag them with 'chapters', because as you said, especially in some of the longer videos you sometimes just want to see the demo or whiteboarding to see if whatever the video is about is of interest to you.

Re: This Week on Channel 9: April 17th Episode

Dan — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:37:12 GMT

Bas wrote:

Nice episode as always, guys.

I know the dev team is probably swamped with work, but I still have a feature request for the video player that would be especially handy for TWOC9 episodes...

Thing is, I love the fact that you guys mention the various topics discussed in the video and list the times, but skipping to them is a bit awkward. When you drag the progress..slider..thing on the player, the timer freezes, and doesn't get updated until you release. So you have to sort of guess where, for instance, 5:26 is on the time bar, drop the slider there, see where you ended up, and then adjust until you're at the right spot.

One 'simple' way of fixing this would be to update the timer on the video while you're dragging the slider around, so you can see the exact point where you drop it.

A cooler way, though, would be supporting chapters. The TED videos have this, for instance. It'd be sweet if all the different topics you mention in the post would be separate chapters, and the next chapter/previous chapter buttons in the player would allow you to skip to them. (I have no idea what those buttons do now, by the way. They seem to just skip two minutes ahead/back?)

I agree with you WRT being able to jump around within a video. I personally think this would be good for all videos as a lot of time someone just wants to see the demo or just the whiteboarding, etc. Viddler.com has a very cool player that JeffSand turned me on to, check out :
http://www.viddler.com/explore/ijustine/videos/293/

It's player has a way for *anyone* to tag a timeline and description for something interesting in a video. This would be great for us and for fellow C9'ers to be able to tag parts of a conversation or demo that they found interesting.

Re: This Week on Channel 9: April 17th Episode

Dan — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:20:43 GMT

dentaku wrote:

The aspect ratio of the video is wrong (unless everyone got slightly wider since last week).

I had a bunch of problems with Premiere and Movie Maker last night and I couldn't get MM to open the produced AVI file despite the fact that it played fine in WMP. After multiple attempts, I had to end up working through Camtasia (a screen-recording tool) to encode the file and that's where it got borked up as it didn't seem to use the source video's settings.

I'm hoping this is just a minor blip and I won't have this issue again...

Re: This Week on Channel 9: April 17th Episode

dentaku — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:41:03 GMT

The aspect ratio of the video is wrong (unless everyone got slightly wider since last week).

Re: This Week on Channel 9: April 17th Episode

wisemx — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:49:49 GMT

Yup, cool episode.

Whys everyone down on the Vista sales team vid?
I thought it was pretty cool. (Except the ending of course.)

Re: This Week on Channel 9: April 17th Episode

Bas — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:01:49 GMT

Nice episode as always, guys.

I know the dev team is probably swamped with work, but I still have a feature request for the video player that would be especially handy for TWOC9 episodes...

Thing is, I love the fact that you guys mention the various topics discussed in the video and list the times, but skipping to them is a bit awkward. When you drag the progress..slider..thing on the player, the timer freezes, and doesn't get updated until you release. So you have to sort of guess where, for instance, 5:26 is on the time bar, drop the slider there, see where you ended up, and then adjust until you're at the right spot.

One 'simple' way of fixing this would be to update the timer on the video while you're dragging the slider around, so you can see the exact point where you drop it.

A cooler way, though, would be supporting chapters. The TED videos have this, for instance. It'd be sweet if all the different topics you mention in the post would be separate chapters, and the next chapter/previous chapter buttons in the player would allow you to skip to them. (I have no idea what those buttons do now, by the way. They seem to just skip two minutes ahead/back?)