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Interactive Video Transcript uses an attached VTT file (usually subtitles) to generate a transcript in a box below the video. The text will follow the playback of the video, highlighting the current line, while allowing users to skip to any point in the video by clicking on individual lines in the transcript. This feature is available only for the users of FV Player Pro.
How the Interactive Video Transcript Works
The main function of this feature is to highlight the current line in the VTT file. If you simultaneously use the same file as subtitles, you can see that the highlighted transcript line will match the one currently shown in the video.
When the Autoscroll function is active (as in the picture above), the text box will automatically scroll down as the video continues, always showing the active line in the top row. This can be turned off when the user wants to scroll through the transcript and let the video play.
The transcript display can be turned on and off with this button:
Interactive transcript button
The transcript box can be dragged around by left-clicking the top of the box and dragging it to wherever you want it, then releasing the mouse button:
Moving the transcript box
The transcript box can be resized by clicking the lower right corner of the box and dragging it:
The transcription box will stay on top of the video in full screen:
Transcript box in full screen mode
Another important function is the Search bar. Not only will it find the searched phrase, but it will allow the user to jump through the lines which include it by using the '< >' buttons. Jumping to a particular line will also make the video jump to the exact point in the timeline. (this can also be achieved by clicking on any line in the transcript).
Note: The transcript text is also a part of the page HTML code. This means a great boost for website rankings in search engines.
How to Set Up the Interactive Video Transcript
Interactive Video Transcript is currently compatible with VTT files and also with all Vimeo hosted videos (even private ones) that include captions.
To use it with a VTT file, you can either insert the path to the .vtt file into the Transcript field of the shortcode editor, as you can see in the screenshot below, or you can write .transcript="url-of-the-file.vtt" directly into the shortcode.
Inserting a .vtt file into the shortcode editor
Example shortcode (notice that the same file can be used both for transcripts and for video subtitles):
[fvplayer src="https://cdn.foliovision.com/images/2016/10/SampleVideo_1280x720_10mb.mp4" width="1280" height="720" transcript="https://cdn.foliovision.com/images/2016/10/subtitles-lorem-ipsum.vtt" subtitles="https://cdn.foliovision.com/images/2016/10/subtitles-lorem-ipsum.vtt"]
To use the feature with Vimeo is even easier. Just add a line transcript="auto" into the shortcode, or write auto into the field for uploading transcript in the shortcode editor:
Activating Vimeo transcripts
Formatting
Under the Transcript field in each video, there is the option to Preserve original formatting.
If you leave this field unchecked, the FV Player Pro will format the VTT subtitles automatically to make them look like paragraphs of text:
Video Transcript with the "Preserve original formatting" option off
New paragraph is automatically started every time there is:
- 2 second (or more) pause between two subtitle lines
- an empty subtitle pause
If you enable the option, the automatic formatting will not interfere with the way the file was originally written. Therefore, each subtitle line will be a separate line in the transcript too. This comes in handy especially for dialogues, as you can see below:
Video transcript with the "Preserve original formatting" option on
appearance
You can customize the appearance of your Interactive Video Transcript. In order to access these settings, go to Settings -> FV Player Pro -> Setup -> Video Transcript
Hidden by default makes the transcript hidden until the viewer turns it on via the control bar.
Separate subtitle disabling makes it possible to show both the transcript and the subtitles at the same time.
The drop-down menu in Transcript Theme setting gives you three themes to choose from:
Light theme (default)
Dark theme
Boxy theme
Example
Take a look on an example video hosted on Vimeo with the automatic transcript. Here is the shortcode:
[fvplayer src="https://vimeo.com/150185992" transcript="auto" splash="https://i.vimeocdn.com/video/549595739_1280.jpg" caption="Teaser: "Paillard Bolex" (English subtitles)"]
Teaser: "Paillard Bolex" (English subtitles)
At every flash, it is a picture that is born inside of this magic box. conceived with incredible precision by a team of technicians that inherited a 150 years old tradition. When I saw the assembly lines I thought I could never work here. Doing a repetitive work all day long was not for me. A high precision camera must roll the film with unfailing regularity. At that time being hired by a big company like this meant life time employment. As long as the company lasted anyways. We had employment security at the time. Here we do not pay attention to how much time is needed. The technician patiently tweaks the springs of the speed regulator, that he mounts, unmounts, and mounts over again, looking for the perfect amount of tension. A true watchmaker's work.
I assembled hundreds of cameras.
We were asked to do things properly. The goal was to satisfy the client as long as we could. Regardless of the saying, quality is not controlled, it is built. The final quality control is pushed to the most extreme limits. Each camera is quality controlled according to draconian guidelines In the small cameras assembly lines were mostly working women. They were supposedly more agile than men were. But I am under the impression that their salary was much lower.
Bolex always has been a noisy camera. It was the main disadvantage of these cameras. If you wanted to record sound next to the camera that was an issue. The camera sound was overwhelming, the noise of the mechanics was overwhelming.
If you want to see if the camera is struggling you set them to 64 frames per second, you slow down the friction of the rewinding and you let them slow down. When some get to the end they sometimes go « … » Paillard Bolex is the symbol of a renowned range of cameras capable of capturing life as well as reproducing it on the screen. Commented with voice recordings or complemented with orchestra music.
Devices ranging from the simplest to the most advanced. Designed for the beginners as well as for the advanced users, equipped with refined and efficient improvements. Paillard the camera of the connoisseurs.
