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Adding viewer interactive element to Videos
Any advice on how to create videos that measure a person’s reaction time. When they see a specific item appear on the video they would click the mouse or space bar. Depending on how long it took them to hit the mouse/space bar they will get a score
I know there is nothing in FCP that will create this interactivity, I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction
Thank you
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I think that’s not something you’re going to do without writing some code. Where does it have to run – what hardware, operating system does it need to be compatible with?
I’d persoanally probably just do it in HTML, and write a custom JavaScript player that knew when the objects occurred and was waiting for the mouse/space bar to trigger after each object appeared.
Interesting that it’s video based. Most reaction timers are 100% scripted to be random so they can test the same person more than once.
There may be better and easier apps for developing something like this but it’s been half a decade since I had to do anything interactive and I haven’t kept up with things but to me that’s probably the fastest and most universal way of achieving hat you’re after.
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Almost sounds like you need some instructional design software. Inside most there are tools to do this or the ability to write specific macros.
Lawrence
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Hey Jeff
Thanks for your insights on HTML and JavaScript; as you might have guessed I am way out of my comfort zone on this and your suggestion gives me options to look at.
Enjoy
Tim -
Thanks Lawrence
Since the videos will be part of an online class this may be a great option.
Enjoy
Tim -
This could be built in Visual Basic. The modules for the various timing, display, and scoring functions are probably already written. A trip to GitHub is in order… and a sixer of red bulls for your coder.
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