Adrian, I think the (1) micro-thumbnail poster approach is more viable than the (2) interval video approach, because I can still scrub through my captured video anyway. A lot of web video service can generate thumbnails, but does anyone know of a desktop app that can do that? Perhaps an Applescript / Quicktime SMIL guru here?
Such an app could be useful for those of us who videoblog as well ;) Kevin Lim http://theory.isthereason.com This email is: [ ] bloggable [X] ask first [ ] private email locator: ╔╗╔═╦╗ ║╚╣║║╚╗ ╚═╩═╩═╝ On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Adrian Miles <adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au> wrote: > what you need is something that pulls a frame out of video at > nominated interval, sets its duration, and edits them together to get > a poster movie (a sort of micro poster movie). So you could, for > example: > > tell the app to grab a frame at every 5 minutes, for that frame to > have a duration of a second, and to paste it to the poster movie. (I > had a project that did this using applescript that worked reasonably > well at the time). You could of course grab a frame very minute, for > half a second and so on. This would build a small movie that just had > stills (though there's no reason you could not tell it to grab a > second of video every 5 minutes, which in many ways would be more > elegant) and when you played it you'd get a sense of the material. > > part two would be to make sure that each clip you take (the fragments) > has enough data that when clicked on it would take you to that point > in the actual clip. > > On 05/01/2009, at 2:13 PM, Kevin Lim wrote: > >> I've recently shared a 17min demo of how / why I do record my life as >> completely as possible [3], and as you can guess, cataloguing and >> searching through lengthy videos is still something I'm researching. >> Right now I've tried tagging keyframes using services like Viddler, >> but I might resort to using a thumbnail generator with hourly >> intervals so I can quickly browse through them (as inspired in this >> email thread). > > cheers > Adrian Miles > adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au > bachelor communication honours coordinator > vogmae.net.au > >
