Screenshots of User Interface for Distributed Editing
I have some preliminary screenshots for what the volunteers will see when they help order sound bites into sequences.
This has been some of my first Drupal development, and I'm sure that this interface will continue to evolve -- but I just want to show what I have so far.
There will be a number of way to search through the 40+ hours worth of sound bites with the sound bite filtering page -- sort of like an internal google search of all of the sound bite chunks from the nearly 70 interviews we've conducted.
The first screen shot shows the chronological progression of sound bites from the Bill Plante interview -- there will also be more ways to display filtered clusters of sound bites. For example, notice that there is a column for tags. These are the tags that I've assigned to those sound bites. It'll be possible to filter through all of the sound bites and display all of the sound bites tagged with a specific tag -- like "international law," "oil" or "political bias."
Notice that I've selected sound bite numbers 335, 338 and 339. There is a box & button to create new sequences, as well as a pull down list of all of the created sequences and a copy button. This copy button will copy the selected sound bites to the selected sequence -- in this case the one called "Good Clips."
The next screen shot shows what happens after the user copies the selected sound bites to the sequence. There is a confirmation message that provides a link that takes the user to the sequence where the sound bites were copied to. In this case "Sequence Number 6" is "Good Clips".
This shot shows the user interface for the "Good Clips" sequence. Notice that the clips are disabled, and that the user can reorder the clips.
The final screenshot shows that the user enabled the sound bites and reordered them from {335, 338, 339} to {339, 335, 338}.
This Final Cut Pro XML metadata for this sequence could then be exported from Drupal, and then imported into the editing software offline where this "paper edit" could be transformed into a real edited sequence.
I'm also looking into whether it'd be possible to dynamically edit these sequences with either flash or streaming video -- more details here.
