need to create timecoded comments in video

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Posted by Prion
Mar 31, 2022 at 02:26 PM

Hi all
I am looking for a macOS possibly iPadOS software (ideally free) to make comments to myself for what I see at any moment in several videos for my work.
These notes should be exportable and perhaps also contain a bookmark that would allow me to go to that moment with a click rather than looking up the time and scrolling to the respective moment manually.
I do not need to transcribe what is being said, in fact there is no sound anyway.

Any recommendations?

Prion

Posted by Ken
Mar 31, 2022 at 02:36 PM

Prion wrote:
Hi all
>I am looking for a macOS possibly iPadOS software (ideally free) to make
>comments to myself for what I see at any moment in several videos for my
>work.
>These notes should be exportable and perhaps also contain a bookmark
>that would allow me to go to that moment with a click rather than
>looking up the time and scrolling to the respective moment manually.
>I do not need to transcribe what is being said, in fact there is no
>sound anyway.
> >Any recommendations?
> >Prion

Frame.io should do what you want. If not, search for competitor products, as there are several. And I believe they have a free version that is space and feature limited.

Good luck,

—Ken

Posted by MadaboutDana
Apr 1, 2022 at 03:23 PM

There are plenty of macOS/iOS apps for taking notes aligned with audio streams (the best known are probably Noted and Notability), but I’m not sure about video.

Actually, I lie. A brief search has reminded me of Pear Note, which does exactly what you describe, but is now rather elderly (still available, however, on the Mac App Store and possibly also on iOS!) and another app I’ve heard of but never used called Note Studio (a turbocharged version of an app called Audio Note).

Oh, and I’ve just discovered a free extension for Safari which claims to do what you need, too: Iceberg Notes for Safari (by Luminant Software). All on Mac App Store.

The search I ran was “notes video”.

Cheers!
Bill

Posted by Luhmann
Apr 2, 2022 at 10:13 AM

I actually recommend using oTranscribe, a web app but it doesn’t actually require you to upload anything to the cloud. It runs free in the browser and lets you export. Anyone you send the file to can load it in the app as well.

Also, Logseq now has video transcription tools (I think there is a plugin as well?) but I haven’t tried that.

Posted by 22111
Jun 9, 2022 at 05:33 PM

I know the term is “timecode(d)”, but then, in reality, it should probably be “framecode(d)”, why? And even “frames” don’t travel that well between continents…

In the U.S., you’ve got NTSC, in Europa, you’ve got PAL, then video formats (for DVD e.g.), and not only the resolutions are different, but also the frame rates, perhaps you have no problems between U.S. movies > NTSC (?), but you decidedly have problems between U.S. movies > European DVD format.

I cannot explain, haven’t understood it myself, and there are other sources of course than (Hollywood or other) movies, but:

Play the same PAL DVD in PowerDVD, WinDVD, 5KPlayer, etc., and you will see time differences, i.e. when you see in one tool that some scene begins at 1:04:35, in some other program the same scene may start at 1:05:56, which implies the time lags are not very big, but they are there, and that’s NOT even speaking of “national / foreign versions”, etc., so beware of “time” when in fact they might even insert or clip 1 frame every n second(s); remind yourself that at the very least, European DVD format is NOT compatible with the original U.S. film format, at the very least, and there might be other problems that occur.

And yes, some of the tools may give identical times indeed, but that does not prove that is the right time counter, ditto for cutting tool - which one is “faithful to the original”, when the “original” isn’t even available to you, on the DVD (or in another source, transferred at some time time before between NTSC and PAL)...

and then, U.S. television is again another format than U.S. movies are…

Thus, beware, in front of this mess; otherwise, you might be in for unpleasant surprises (work done for nothing and such).

(And the above does NOT imply that working, in the U.S., on U.S. material, you won’t encounter problems, but if you work on U.S. material in Europe, or (rarely…) vice versa, you certainly do.)

(The above implies that whoever asks the thread’s question, might not be aware of the more fundamental problems I tried to outline here.)

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