How do I add hyperlinks to a video
July 30, 2016 2:03 AM Subscribe
So....I'm a bit of a plant nerd and have a nice collection of rare palms and fruit trees in my garden in New Zealand. I also have a nice web-based database where I have information about each plant such as the date I planted it, what I paid for it, and horticultural info (told you I was a nerd!).
What I'd really like is to:
1) create a video of the garden, zooming in on each plant, where the viewer can click on that plant and be taken to its relevant webpage for more information.
2) have a textbox appear with the name of tha plant
3) have the option of displaying pictures (e.g. of that same plant in previous years) on screen.
So....I'm a bit of a plant nerd and have a nice collection of rare palms and fruit trees in my garden in New Zealand. I also have a nice web-based database where I have information about each plant such as the date I planted it, what I paid for it, and horticultural info (told you I was a nerd!).
What I'd really like is to:
1) create a video of the garden, zooming in on each plant, where the viewer can click on that plant and be taken to its relevant webpage for more information.
2) have a textbox appear with the name of tha plant
3) have the option of displaying pictures (e.g. of that same plant in previous years) on screen.
But I'll gladly settle for 1) only.
I know Camtasia does some of this through the addition of hotspots, but it requires you to upload the video to a proprietary site (screencast.com) - I want to keep my file locally.
Any suggestions? My plants will love you!
So....I'm a bit of a plant nerd and have a nice collection of rare palms and fruit trees in my garden in New Zealand. I also have a nice web-based database where I have information about each plant such as the date I planted it, what I paid for it, and horticultural info (told you I was a nerd!).
What I'd really like is to:
1) create a video of the garden, zooming in on each plant, where the viewer can click on that plant and be taken to its relevant webpage for more information.
2) have a textbox appear with the name of tha plant
3) have the option of displaying pictures (e.g. of that same plant in previous years) on screen.
But I'll gladly settle for 1) only.
I know Camtasia does some of this through the addition of hotspots, but it requires you to upload the video to a proprietary site (screencast.com) - I want to keep my file locally.
Any suggestions? My plants will love you!
Response by poster: Thanks for that response...This does look like it might work but unfortunately is a bit beyond my capability.
posted by sinbarambam at 8:13 PM on July 30, 2016
posted by sinbarambam at 8:13 PM on July 30, 2016
Have you thought of uploading the video of your garden to YouTube, and then following these instructions to add annotations that hyperlink to your website?
posted by vert canard at 9:08 PM on July 30, 2016
posted by vert canard at 9:08 PM on July 30, 2016
There's no real way to do this with just a video file, as they don't have information beyond video + audio tracks. Youtube annotations are a good suggestion.
posted by so fucking future at 9:16 PM on July 30, 2016
posted by so fucking future at 9:16 PM on July 30, 2016
One project I worked on years ago was a series of connected QuickTime VR movies that showcased a botanical garden.
Basically, these were panoramic images you could rotate in your browser. The viewer "stands" in one place and rotates the image 360 degrees so as to mimic the behavior of looking around.
The QTVR authoring software that Apple made allowed adding hyperlinks to the images, so that the viewer could zoom into a part of the image, click on it, and the browser would load a new page (or, in our case, another QuickTime VR movie).
In my project, I set up a series of movies that were linked to each other — this way, the viewer could look around a botanical garden, zoom in on plants and flowers of interest, or another part of the garden, and click around to load information or a new part of the garden.
I didn't mention it before because I don't think Apple makes this software any longer. The authoring software was very easy to use, but taking pictures was labor intensive. The software I used was written even before OS X really got started — around 2000-2001 or so. Maybe someone reading may have suggestions for modern panoramic image tools that ended up replacing QTVR.
An HTML5-based approach will probably be more usable in the long run, thoughmaybe it has a steeper learning curve. Now that Flash is dead, and with QuickTime security problems on Windows, I don't know how much steam QuickTime really has left as a format.
posted by a lungful of dragon at 1:53 PM on August 1, 2016
Basically, these were panoramic images you could rotate in your browser. The viewer "stands" in one place and rotates the image 360 degrees so as to mimic the behavior of looking around.
The QTVR authoring software that Apple made allowed adding hyperlinks to the images, so that the viewer could zoom into a part of the image, click on it, and the browser would load a new page (or, in our case, another QuickTime VR movie).
In my project, I set up a series of movies that were linked to each other — this way, the viewer could look around a botanical garden, zoom in on plants and flowers of interest, or another part of the garden, and click around to load information or a new part of the garden.
I didn't mention it before because I don't think Apple makes this software any longer. The authoring software was very easy to use, but taking pictures was labor intensive. The software I used was written even before OS X really got started — around 2000-2001 or so. Maybe someone reading may have suggestions for modern panoramic image tools that ended up replacing QTVR.
An HTML5-based approach will probably be more usable in the long run, though
posted by a lungful of dragon at 1:53 PM on August 1, 2016
So it looks like Panoweaver is the modern successor to Apple's QTVR Authoring Studio, and you can add so-called "Hotspots" that let you set up parts of the image that are "hot", which are regions that are either clickable links to external sites, or which bring up pop-up images. If you export to HTML5, you should be able to share these panoramic movies with anyone.
posted by a lungful of dragon at 2:41 PM on August 1, 2016
posted by a lungful of dragon at 2:41 PM on August 1, 2016
Response by poster: Awesome, thanks for all those suggestions. Looking forward to the weekend and this little project!
posted by sinbarambam at 4:48 PM on August 4, 2016
posted by sinbarambam at 4:48 PM on August 4, 2016
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posted by a lungful of dragon at 3:07 AM on July 30, 2016