adding chapter markers within YouTube video manager

[Dennis Roliff]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the input. I have subsequently found out that within YouTube, you used to be able to create markers using the ‘annotations’ option. Unfortunately they have removed the option to do annotations. Oh well. There’s probably a workaround but it’s not that important at the moment.

Best,

Dennis

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[Mark Suszko]

I have an idea fora work-around.

If you right-click on a running YouTube video, you have options like;”copy this URL”, which makes it easier to drop that into, say, a Facebook comment or whatever.

Another one of those right-click options is something like: “Copy URL at this point in the playback”. Using this, if you were going to make a video comment in Facebook, for example, your clip would play from a specific spot instead of making the viewer just watch the entire clip, just to get to the interesting/relevant bit near the end, or asking them to scroll to a time index manually.

See where I’m going?

On the YouTube page for your recital is a section for Information about the video. You can copy/paste any number of these “cued-up urls into that area as a crude playlist and, being HTML links, they *should* (I’m guessing) function similarly to the basic chapter menus of a rudimentary DVD menu.

Or you can list the time indexes for all the start-points of the various acts on the recital in that spot as well, for people to manually scroll to. But getting there from a single click is neater, I think:-)

Another way to go is to make a specific YouTube channel, just for this recital… make a master clip of the entire recital, then upload the chapters separately and make a channel playlist of each individual clip. Now it works even more like a DVD menu… but that’s more work for you. It does though have advantages, like control of being fully private, or just unlisted-private, etc. to somewhat restrict access. And you can work on/change individual pieces without losing the whole thing.

[Dennis Roliff]

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the input on your ideas for a workaround of my issue/question regarding putting chapter markers in a YouTube video. Excellent ideas, and things that I had not thought of before. I’ll add these to my list of video ‘workaround’ techniques.

Really appreciate it.

Dennis

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[Jim Mcnally]

Just came across a very simple way to get chapter marker style functionality within YouTube. In the description box type out the times you want as “markers”.

00:00 marker 1
00:35 marker 2
01:10 marker 3

When you save it and go to view the video all the times become hyperlinked and you can jump directly to your marker.

Jim McNally
The Commercial Factory
http://www.commercialfactory.com