youtube annotation ideas

[Stefan]

It will definitely make averages more exciting since you don't have to sit through 20+ seconds of scramble and inspection

It can do more than that. Imagine you've ignored a video or watched it already, and then someone says "wow the 7th solve was awesome" and you want to go check it out. Just the one solve out of 12. You can roughly guess where it is, but it can be cumbersome to find (especially if someone interrupted the cuber and he left the break in, or if pops make some solves much longer, or if there are a few extra solves before or after the record average). I've had the idea for a while, and quite a few times I wished some navigation like this was provided.

 

[freshcuber]

I see the potential in doing this. The advantages it would provide outways the few minutes it takes to add to the video. You can make the annotations smaller though right? In your Ao5 video in the OP the annotations cleanly filled the bottom where there was nothing of interest going on. In a longer video like an Ao12 would the annotations become cluttered though? If they were smaller it would keep it all clean looking as long as they weren't too small.

 

[KYLOL]

Cool idea Stefan.

 

[Tim Major]

Ryan Jew did this months ago!
One of the reasons I originally subscribed to him

 

[Zane_C]

This is does seem quite useful, I find it more entertaining.

 

[Stefan]

You can make the annotations smaller though right?

Sure. The text (of the bottom boxes) is the smallest already, but the boxes can be made shorter or overlap. Longer times (1:23.45) could be shortened (1:23). Or you can try a different approach, watch the video again and check out the boxes I added to the left and right now. In any case, if it looks ugly or doesn't work, just don't use it, it's just a suggestion

Ryan Jew did this months ago!
One of the reasons I originally subscribed to him

I'm not surprised. Though, judging by the responses here, his apparently went mostly unnoticed. I don't know his channel, can you link to such a video of him?

 

[CubicNL]

It looks very cool and I think it's quite handy as well.
If I'd use it I'd take the annotations on the right and take those to the left, that seems to be the best imo.

 

[hatter]

I like the bottom and I prefer the annotations on the right to the ones on the left. I'm not really sure why, though.


I hope this starts becoming somewhat standard -- I think it would be very useful.