This should be useful for the web2py-conference: For PyCon Argentina 2012 videos I made a tentative site to do the "post-production" in a colaborative way, mixing video, sllides (images), subtitles and footnotes, adding more "interactivity". Example at:
http://ar.pycon.org/video2py IMPORTANT: it is just a proof-of -concept, videos nor slides nor subtitles match, they are just synchronized to show the capabilities (it can also be further extended to include google maps, wikipedia pages, facebook or twitter interaction, etc.). You can see an screenshot here: http://ar.pycon.org/video2py/static/images/screenshot.png The app is very simple, and basically it uses the Mozilla Popcorn.js library to handle HTML5 video: http://popcornjs.org/ You can see the source code at: https://code.google.com/p/video2py/ I've coded the models and CRUD for videos, slides, subtitules, but it still misses: - a simple method for sync slides - a simple method to write down and sync subtitles Mi idea is make it interactive: at the same time that the video is playing, the user can choose the slide or write the subtitle.. It can use Popcorn.currentTime() to get initial and final times, and than make a ajax call to save that data. http://popcornjs.org/popcorn-docs/media-methods/#currentTime http://popcornjs.org/popcorn-docs/events/ For example, we can show the slides with a "next" button, when pressed, it stores the slide timing so then we can do the slideshow automátically. For the subtitles, it is a little bit more complicated, because we should detect the last pause (initial time), enable a textbox, and save it when play button is presed again. (they may not synchonize exactly with the voice in a first attemp, but I think it is a good aproximation) You can take a look something similar at: http://www.universalsubtitles.org/ (BTW, I prefer a web2py app, but popcorn.js also suports .SRT playback) I think this app could be important to enhance collaboration and translation of videos, and is a good help for smaller conferences that don't have resources (money nor collaborators, like PyCon Argentina 2012) to do the final edition process. What do you think? (sorry if this has been proposed before, I didn't have time to read all the mails) Best regards, Mariano Reingart http://www.sistemasagiles.com.ar http://reingart.blogspot.com --
