What software exists for taking notes on videos? (e.g. lectures, political speeches, video games, or even music videos.) Having a clean and easy way to annotate video content according to timestamp would have lots of educational value. I've found these two sites which seem to do the job, but they seem clunky or non-intuitive:<p>http://www.videonot.es/
https://ant2.cehd.umn.edu/<p>Can anyone suggest other options?
If I was faced with your problem, I'd solve it in an odd way which
<i>might</i> not be what you want.<p>I'd use subtitles.<p>With a bit of ffmpeg magic, I'd get the video file into MKV (Matroska)
format simply because I like them best and I find them easiest to edit.
The important piece is MKV supports embedding subtitle text into the
video container format as a separate "stream" (read:file). It's easy to
add or remove subtitles.<p>The next problem is timing your text to specific parts of the video, but
this problem has mostly been solved by the fansub crowd. There are a few
different open and closed source subtitling programs out there. I have
no experience with them, so I can't make any suggestions. If I needed a
solid suggestion, I'd ask any of the fansub groups. They'd know what
works well.<p>In most regards, what you want is the subtitling software itself since
it allows you to both view the video and <i>edit</i> your text. If your text
is simple, it should do the trick.<p>EDIT: If you have the urge to do some hacking, you could also modify
a player like VLC or mplayer to show text in a separate window from the
video. This could help if you need to <i>present</i> your additions to others.
I prefer the old standard of pen and paper for two good reasons:<p>1. I hate typing.<p>2. Handwriting aids retention more than typing.[1]<p>[1] <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110119095458.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110119095458.ht...</a>