Video upload and sharing procedure in LTTC Video DataBase Login LTTC Video DataBase http://citiemedia.ied.edu.hk/citie_video_library/index.php How to add and upload videos? a) Click [Video Vault ] button. b) Click [Add Video] button: Fill in important fields for Add New Video dialogue boxes: Video Title box doesn’t support Chinese characters. Tick appropriate Video Format boxes. WMV 300KB/S Standard is recommended. Select Not open for public users in the Video Access Code box. Others are optional Then click [ submit ] button. c) After successfully adding your video, go back to [Video Vault ] d) Click the associated folder like icon followed by the video title in the Video Vault page. e) Follow the link Video file not exists, click this link to upload . You will be directed to Video Upload page. Select the correctly formatted video clip on your local storage medium (ensure that the video file extension must be in small letters and with the correct format, such as Video.wmv but Video.WMV not accepted) and click [ Upload Video ]. Wait until file is successfully uploaded. The maximum allowable video size is limited to 100M bytes. For better viewing performance, try to split your video into several shorter video clips (about 15-20 minutes). f) Click < back to video detailed page. The uploaded video file will be shown. How to add and upload video surrogates? (Optional) Video surrogate is a pictorial representation of a video and is served as an efficient means for visually identification for a video. a) In the video detailed page, click [ Video Surrogates Management ]. b) Click [ Upload Surrogates ] on the top menu bar. Select the thumbnails ( 92 x 70 resolution in JPG format ) on your local storage medium and press [ Upload video surrogates ]. c) Rename the thumbnails with correct sequence, such as 1, 2, 3 or 1, a, b, c etc. However, the first thumbnail must be renamed as 1, i.e. 1.jpg will be selected by system as the video icon. The thumbnails will then be organized sequentially as a storyboard for that video. In general, the video icon is served as a quick access for the video playback, which is in 300kbps WMV by default. Hence video with 300kbps WMV format should be defined and uploaded. How to share your videos to community members? a) Click [ Transaction Bin ] b) Click Share Videos to Community Members. c) Tick All Group Members, select the community and select number of videos you want to share then click Submit. d) Then select the videos to share and Submit. e) Click Videos Shared by Community Members. f) Select the community you want and press [ Go ]. Shared videos within your community will be shown. How to share my comments in bulletin board? a) Click the video thumbnail you want to share your comments. b) Video Communication Panel will be opened. Identify the video segment you want to comment by pressing Mark In (Start of segment) and Mark Out (End of segment) button. The corresponding time-code will be shown as Start Time and End Time respectively. Then enter Subject and Comment on Segment dialogue boxes. And finally press Send Comment. You may further comment using this panel or press [Close Window]. If this time code not running, press Stop and Play to retry. c) Click Bulletin Board to view and reply comments. d) All comments and replies will be listed for that video. You may Press Reply to reply on any Subject you want. Press Segment to view the exact video segment. Press Generate PDF Report to create a portable PDF file for that bulletin board. Adobe Reader version 7 must be installed. Procedures for Video Analysis within video database system 1. Assume you have some videos within your video vault 2. Go to [ Video Analysis Suite ] by click Video Analysis on top menu bar 3. For create a new Video Analysis Project, fill in the required boxes and click Submit and remember to enable the Add Project check box. 4. After creating the video analysis project, a message will prompt you to add videos for that project. Then click Search Videos 5. Click Browse your own Vault to search the videos you want to add in this project 6. A page showing all your videos inside your own vault 7. Select and click Add Video button, a prompt message “ Video has been added” will be shown upon successful addition. Duplicated videos will be rejected as “Duplicated Video”. 8. After adding videos, click Video Analysis Home 9. All your videos will be shown within your project. Click Video Annotation to enter [ Video Analysis Suite ] 10. Select and click the video thumbnail that you want to annotate. 11. Inside a pop-up window [ Video Annotation Panel ], press Mark In and then Mark Out buttons to identify the exact video segment you want to enter annotation. For this example: 00:00:12 to 00:00:19 total 7 seconds. Type in the boxes of Segment Descriptor / Subject and Segment Annotation and then press Save Annotation. If Elapse Time doesn’t count, press Pause and then Play buttons to fix. Normal Descripting Mode: Video plays at the beginning of the video in the next annotation cycle. Sequential Descripting Mode: Video plays at the previous mark out point in the next annotation cycle. 12. Repeat step 11 for further annotation, however you may select the previous entered descriptor from the pull down menu if you find the descriptor is relevant. When annotation is finished for this video, press Close Window to exit. 13. In [ Video Analysis Suite ], there are three types of search for annotation, i.e. Keyword, Video and Descriptor search. For example, select the video from the pull-down menu and press Video, a full list of annotations for this video will be listed. You may also play the individual segments, edit or delete the annotation. Dissemination, feedbacks and responses for video annotation: After initiating your search, you may generate a report in PDF format just by clicking Generate PDF. Save this PDF on your local hard-disk or you may e-mail this document to the recipient you want to share. Recipient can view the segment by just clicking the link Click here to view segment. Response or feedback for this segment could be send to originator by clicking the link Click here to feedback. Recipient sends feedback to originator: Enter comment, name and corresponding password in the relevant boxes, and then press Submit to send. Authorized password is set as feedback_xxxxx where xxxxx is the user id of the originator. Originator views and responses the feedback: 1. Click View Feedback for that video segment 2. Within [ Video Analysis Feedback Page ], you may response or modify annotation by selecting appropriate radio button or even delete particular feedbacks.