I recently discovered the annotation abilities of marginnote with mp4 video files. This set of features is very innovative, forward thinking, and potentially very powerful!
The only drawback I see is that the user has to upload an mp4 file. While mp4 upload can be useful as a feature, I believe it would be more powerful to be able to add hosted online videos from YouTube, Kahn academy, Coursera, edX, LinkedIn learning, etc. Many class courses and lectures are hosted online and there is no solution that exists to markup and annotate these video notes in the way marginnote has the potential to with time stamped annotations and links!
+1 feature request for annotating hosted videos in marginnote !
Yes, itās a a very inspiring feature if MN cloud make annotations with online video. We will do seriously consider this improvement. Thanks very much for your suggestion.
Welcome new to the forum! Looking forward to your experience sharing about MN usage in the future.
Plans for the video look to be currently behind the Brain Map Recall mode and Pencil gestures.
The video feature in general hasnāt started yet, itās just in the conceptualization stage.
Regards.
I donāt have the permission here to describe any development progress that falls into the requirements category, except for the time forecast for bug fixes.
You can download youtube videos and drag them into MarginNotes.
Simply use youtube-dl. Itās open source and supports all the videos sites from twitter to vimeo to youtube, even with password logins. It restarts failed downloads and ensures you never download a file twice. It allows downloads of entire youtube channels if you wish or all the videos on a web page you are studying. Then you can just drag the videos into DEVONthink or into MarginNotes or whatever you are using for your video database.
Does anybody know if there are hotkeys for playing videos in MarginNotes? Iām searching for a way to hit play and have it play/pause the videos. Also wondering if there is a way to turn on the audio wave form so that I can cut the video where the person stops talking and see that in advance rather than have to listen to the entire track. I want to quickly cut all the video tracks and then go through an annotate them. If I had a visual way to see the audio, I could do it faster.
Oh, by the way, lots of other features in that downloader. You can download transcripts of videos from youtube with youtube-dl as well. https://youtube-dl.org/
Dont get me wrong, but ı real dont understand single part of the GitHup (as much as I understand itās the githup related file etc.). Maybe because of I m the only iPad user. Can you give link or exact file to import add on to MarginNote please ?
Yes, well there are plenty of tutorials on installing this tool. I use a mac mini, so Iām running MarginNote on OSx, not on an iPad. So, when I see a video, I just copy the link and go to my command line and type youtube-dl āHow To Install youtube-dl on macOS - YouTubeā and itās done. That link, by the way is a video that will show you how to install youtube-dl on a mac. As you can see itās a as simple as running ābrew install youtube-dlā. Basically, you just download the tool from the package manager server.
Then you will see your video in finder and you can drag it to MarginNote 3 and you are good to go for doing your video annotation.
I just need to be able to see the audio wave form on the video or perhaps have a tool such as āfind silenceā where the tool will automatically split the video into piecesā¦ In fact, I think thatās what I will go find now. Iām sure there is a tool that will cut the video into bite size pieces for studying and I can then use the tools inside MarginNote 3 to do the outline of the video. Will be nice if that is all integrated and itās also why I mention the youtube-dl tool. Since itās open source, anybody can use it in their product, so perhaps on iOS, the developers here will be able to use the same technology for you guys on tablets. I find the tablets cumbersome and I prefer 4k and larger screens, so itās just not practical right now to own a tablet for my workflow and Iām glad they offer a mac version of MN 3.
Itās $99. Crazy eh? Twice the price of MarginNote. So just adding this one feature would make MarginNote 3 sell for $150 per license instead of just under $50. Sounds like a good idea to me to add thisā¦ If MarginNote would find the silence like that and automatically build the study card view, it would be fantastic.
This feature alone could help me talk many people into using MarginNote and personally make me use this application for everything because I am constantly watching and reviewing lectures. Itās painful to see that this progress is paused.
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