29 Aug 2011
Do you do video tutorials or…online presentations and product (video) demos? I do and I watch a lot of video tutorials online; I love them – not all of them. I like brief, to-the-point and professionally illustrated tutorials that I can watch and understand easily. Now what makes a good online video presentation is not just crisp voice and high definition vide0 but the quality of content which includes a knowledgeable presentation with complete subtitles and cue points.
Subtitles or cue points are assistive tools that supplement the talk and allow audience of all types to understand and learn the subject – especially when your audience comes from different cultural/languages backgrounds. You do not have to explain/translate each and everything in the tutorial. Cue points can contain tips, useful information, subtitles or translation that make your online presentation easy to understand.
Adding subtitles or cue points to your videos (HTML5 videos) is quite easy. You just need Cuepoint.js, a simple open source plugin for adding cue points and subtitles to your HTML5 video.
Cuepoint binds external links to certain positions on the video timeline. It also allows you to skip to points within the video, thereby displaying specific subtitles.
