video.Market7 Release from June 24 ‘09
June 30th, 2009 by Seth Kenvin
We’ve actually done a few releases since the prior “New Release” blog post, but the new code that became live last week includes especially notable functionality that further enriches commenting on video content by allowing file attachments to the comments. Here’s a demo of that:
One scenario we’ve thought about for this functionality is for our more sophisticated and video-oriented users to use screen-capture software for putting their thoughts together, much like I used screen-capture software for the demo above (some evidence of that at the very start & very end of the demo). These users could do a screen capture of the player itself — move the playhead around, draw on-screen, talk to their actions, and overall richly capture thoughts about the video on which they’re commenting. Then attach the file produced by screen-capture software to comments in the Anotative Player.
Other notable new features we’ve released in recent weeks include:
- Wider overall screen for entire video.Market7 application, effects of which include presenting video at 640 pixel width, so less compression effects for videos uploaded at that width, or some multiple or factor of that width
- Auto-complete when typing in character names that already appear in Collaborative Script
- Can modify name of an invitee from Team module while invitation is pending
- Free “Production Assistant” accounts can delete files from project (although still limited to 100MB of total uploads)
- Double arrowheads out & in above comment roll in Annotative Player perform expand-all and collapse-all for all comments and their replies
- Improved formatting and information in pdf export of comments from Annotative Player
- Reduced clutter in Annotative Player by collapsing several buttons (ex: Download, Replace) to a single “File Actions” drop-down button
- If a comment in the Annotative Player applies for a duration of the relevant video, so its time marker indicatesa span from a start to an end, clicking on that span will play the relevant duration (ie just from the start to the end relevant to the comment, not the entire video)
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