-
When I look at the markup inside the transcript window, the “voice spans” ( https://www.w3.org/TR/webvtt1/ => (Example 6) ) from vtt file are shown as follows:
Example (vtt file):
... 00:00:16.680 --> 00:00:20.040 <v character>That’s awesome! ...
is rendered via FV Flowplayer Pro as follows:
Example (HTML markup):
... <span class="fv_fp_transcript_item current" data-chapter="3"> <v character="">That’s awesome!</v> </span> ...
Unfortunately I haven’t found any documentation how I can influence this to format the transcript output a bit.
I mainly use the player to display the transcribed scripts of the running movie/radio play in the transcription window to search for dialogs. In this case, the automatic breaking of the output based on “2 second (or more) pause between two subtitle lines” (https://foliovision.com/player/advanced/interactive-video-transcript) is hindering.
Additional pauses (as described here: https://foliovision.com/support/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/troubleshooting/interactive-player-add-space-in-transcripts) are too time-consuming in this case, because I would have to rework all transcription texts to insert an additional pause to structure the transcription output.
Is there perhaps a solution to this?
Thanks a lot!
-
-
Hello André,
we have prepared a new feature for FV Player Pro which will let you skip any transcript formatting and use it in its raw form. We need to finish some testing though. Perhaps it will help with your issue.
How should that “v character” part be displayed? I wonder if using some speech balloon would make sense.
Thanks,
Martin
Thank you very much for the quick answer.
The presentation always depends a little on the context.
In my case I imagine the output like this:Transcription Character-A: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing Character-B: Sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut Character-A: Magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua Character-C: At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum Character-D: Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus Character-E: Est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet Character-F: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr Character-B: Sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ...
Influencing the output via CSS or template would of course be great!
Is there already a schedule for when you are done with the tests?Thanks a lot!
André
Hello André,
we have added a “Preserve original formatting” checkbox below the transcript field in FV Player editor. When enabled the transcript won’t be formatted in any way, except for line break after each line.
To get this new feature you have to switch FV Player Pro to Beta (here’s how https://foliovision.com/player/basic-setup/switching-fv-player-pro-to-beta) and then update to the latest version (7.4.38.727.beta). You can also grab a fresh ZIP from https://foliovision.com/my-licenses and switch to Beta afterwards.
Thanks,
Martin
Hi, Martin,
thanks for the change! Everything works as described.
With the css “::before” selector” combined with th “attribute” selector you can now also write the voices (v-tags from the webvtt file) in front of the text passages:
CSS Example:
span.fv_fp_transcript_item v[character-a]::before { content: "Character A: "; color: black; font-weight: bold; } span.fv_fp_transcript_item v[character-b]::before { content: "Character B: "; color: black; font-weight: bold; }Transcript window before:
... Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. ...
With css selectors the voices are output before the text passages in the Transcript window:
... Character A: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing. Character B: At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. ...
Works great for my purposes => Thanks a lot!
André
Hello André,
thank you for posting your notes!
We could parse these voice spans and save you the trouble of adding the CSS rules for each voice.
Thanks,
Martin
That would be great of course, if you could set this option in the backend.
It would also be interesting in this context to standardize the distance between voice/character and dialog text so that the transcript is even easier to read.
For example:
Before (without space between voice/character and dialog text):
character-a: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, constetur sadipscing. character-abcdefgh: At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea. character-abs: Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus.
After (with space between voice/character and dialoge text):
character-a: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, constetur sadipscing. character-abcdefgh: At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea. character-abs: Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus.
Thanks a lot,
André
The editor did not take over the tabs, so for clarification an example image.
Thanks,
André
Hello André,
I don’t think we need another option for this. If voice spans are present it should always process them like you described.
I like the idea of the indentation too. I hope we could get that without having to use tables. But what happens if there is a subtitle line without the voice span? Would that show without indentation?
Thanks,
Martin
O.k. the parameter for a player via manual shortcode is:
original_formatting="true"
topic voice span:
Yes, an option to automatically prefix the voice span in the transcript window sounds good. (at least then you wouldn’t have to create the voices individually via CSS)topic indentation:
An indentation makes the transcript indeed more readable. But I don’t have a suggestion how to solve this dynamically at the moment. Have you already moved on, or is that out of the question for once?Thanks,
André
