- From: John Hanna <j.hanna@snet.net>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 12:06:33 -0400
- To: <public-tt@w3.org>, "Glenn A. Adams" <glenn@xfsi.com>
On Tuesday, June 24, 2003 4:02 PM Glenn A. Adams said... > We haven't discussed annotating. Could you give some concrete > use case scenarios? Consider the use of digital video (including audio) for research and education. A video is observed and interpreted from a particular perspective, and a Timed Text record made of the interpretation. The record could be a complex structure, akin to descriptive captioning, with transcriptions of dialog, descriptions of movement and events, etc. This would be displayed in a browser or media viewer panel synchronized with the video. For research, review comments about the interpretation would annotate the record and be presented in the timed display. For Education, supplementary hints about how to view the scenes and pick out the referenced aspects, or even instructor notes, would annotate the record and optionally be presented in the timed display. Of course the record and annotations could also be viewed in a non-timed manner. To emphasize the video aspects associated with the timed text, an overlay of tracking highlights could mark video objects and be keyed (e.g., by color) to the text. Another example would be for an animated storyboard or movie, with the screenplay presented in timed text (although there may not be a screenplay DTD/schema yet). Annotations would pertain to hints or comments for all the different production roles, or for cinema studies. From a human factors perspective, having labels and descriptions closer and more directly associated with the video objects would be best. Possibly the timed text dialog should be displayable in a talk-balloon that moves with the speaker. Is that within the scope of ways timed text can be presented, or is it moving into animation? Regards, John Hanna
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