Annotate YouTube Videos with BubblePLY
19 12 2006As more and more digital videos appear in university and secondary education, finding creative ways to interact with this media is increasingly important. One of the more difficult challenges is translating some of the textual techniques for criticism and engagement into comparable forms for digital video. Being able to annotate video is one thing I’ve always wanted to be able to do quickly and simply without having to resort to using a full-blown video editor. Now, thanks to the mass of videos on YouTube and similar flash-based services, a new option has appeared: BubblePLY.
Using a very simply interface, quick text annotations can be added to any flash-based videos, including those on YouTube, MySpace and Google Video. Check out an example here. The video quality isn’t stunning but for quick projects with minimal training and fuss, I think this could prove a very useful tool indeed!
[Via Jo]
I worked with this service. It worked great. When I they coming with more powerful features. I visited the company’s (plymedia) site and it looks their future offerings are just fantastic.
Can’t wait to see more of these services pop up.
[...] One of the recently updated tools for learning offered online is the digital video. The hard part is, translating all the annotations in the video minus the hassle of editing it full-blown. In a blog posted by Dr. Tama Leaver at tama.edublogs.org, he shared one simple tool that could make text annotations quickly — the BubblePly. The BubblePly creates an option of adding text annotations in videos that are flash-based, example of which are those on the YouTube, Google Video, and MySpace. Although the video’s quality is sacrificed, the BubblePly would still make for a very helpful tool especially for projects that needs to be done asap. There’s no need for video editors when you have BubblePly. Navigation [...]