The idea behind TAGX.io was to make it easier to share highlights of our football (soccer) video recordings. We have been recording and uploading our games to YouTube over the years and almost everyone that played watched it to see how well they/their team performed. It became an additional discussion point days after the game until the next one. However, it does become tedious having to sit through another hour until you find something special you want to share and discuss, usually this is in the form of “check out the goal 23 minutes in”. I built TAGX to ease this process where someone would go through the video, tag the interesting parts and share it with the group. It was almost like a highlight reel, allowing you to skip through the tagged parts.
This was my winter holiday side project last year and I figured there would be a wider application of this service (conference talks, tutorials, lengthy videos in general) so I decided to polish it up and make it available as a service for others to use. You don’t need to create any account to use it, it’s all client-side and built using Vue.js. It’s hosted on Cloudflare Workers Sites. I wanted to try out Cloudflare Workers/KV, so I ended up building a link shorting feature including authentication/authorisation flow. You can read more about the stack in support -> technology (https://tagx.io/support/general/technology) section.
Here is a tagged video of the AWS re:Invent 2019 event which I shared with someone recently that highlighted some announcements that were of interest to us: https://tagx.io/video/id/Nw-wisbyZPu0LCBk9Tzbn
Following are some development stats for those interested:
- Client-side: ~80 hours (15th Dec 2019 – 7th Jan 2020)
- Server-side: ~30 hours (19th Jan 2019 – 24th Jan 2020)
- Node Experience: 5+ years
- Vue.js Experience: 2+ years
Hope someone finds it useful and any feedback is much appreciated!
These are pretty good use cases, thanks! I hadn't thought of it in a political context, I can definitely see it work there considering the lengthy footage.
Love what this is trying to solve. If the UX could improve, it would be amazing. While watching it would be great to press a button to generate timestamps and to then compose tracks by selecting any two timestamps, with the ability to add tags to timestamps or tracks while the video is still playing or after. This way you could watch a video in one fluent sitting and work out how to organize with the timestamps you created while watching.
One usecase is the ability to link to a comedy sketch from a longer clip and send it to a friend with the link just playing between timestamp a and timestamp b.
(2) then compose tracks by selecting any two timestamps, with the ability to add tags to timestamps or tracks while the video is still playing or after
Just to clarify, do you mean the ability to add the current point in time of the video to different tracks? In which case, this is already possible using multiple hotkeys as outlined above. Please let me know if this is not what you meant.
(3) with the link just playing between timestamp a and timestamp b
With regards to autoplay, this is a bit finicky depending on the browser and is usually not recommended due to the negative user experience so I didn't include an option to enable this feature.
Hope this is clear, let me know if you have any more questions.
It did cross my mind when I released it. I'd like to refactor the code and bring in more tests to make it "contributor friendly" first. Feedback has been great so far and I'll be implementing some of the features on the back of that. There is a repo (https://github.com/cxam/tagx.io) already that I'm using for issue tracking and I'll be able to push the code there when it's ready.
cxam|6 years ago
This was my winter holiday side project last year and I figured there would be a wider application of this service (conference talks, tutorials, lengthy videos in general) so I decided to polish it up and make it available as a service for others to use. You don’t need to create any account to use it, it’s all client-side and built using Vue.js. It’s hosted on Cloudflare Workers Sites. I wanted to try out Cloudflare Workers/KV, so I ended up building a link shorting feature including authentication/authorisation flow. You can read more about the stack in support -> technology (https://tagx.io/support/general/technology) section.
Here is a tagged video of the AWS re:Invent 2019 event which I shared with someone recently that highlighted some announcements that were of interest to us: https://tagx.io/video/id/Nw-wisbyZPu0LCBk9Tzbn
Following are some development stats for those interested:
- Client-side: ~80 hours (15th Dec 2019 – 7th Jan 2020)
- Server-side: ~30 hours (19th Jan 2019 – 24th Jan 2020)
- Node Experience: 5+ years
- Vue.js Experience: 2+ years
Hope someone finds it useful and any feedback is much appreciated!
bobosha|6 years ago
cxam|6 years ago
pensatoio|6 years ago
cxam|6 years ago
pknight|6 years ago
One usecase is the ability to link to a comedy sketch from a longer clip and send it to a friend with the link just playing between timestamp a and timestamp b.
cxam|6 years ago
(1) While watching it would be great to press a button to generate timestamps
This is already possible using hotkeys and documentation for it can be found here: https://tagx.io/support/advanced/hotkeys
(2) then compose tracks by selecting any two timestamps, with the ability to add tags to timestamps or tracks while the video is still playing or after
Just to clarify, do you mean the ability to add the current point in time of the video to different tracks? In which case, this is already possible using multiple hotkeys as outlined above. Please let me know if this is not what you meant.
(3) with the link just playing between timestamp a and timestamp b
You are able to create a loop between a tag or a set of tags, please see loop settings outlined here: https://tagx.io/support/interfaces/video
With regards to autoplay, this is a bit finicky depending on the browser and is usually not recommended due to the negative user experience so I didn't include an option to enable this feature.
Hope this is clear, let me know if you have any more questions.
j45|6 years ago
cxam|6 years ago