I'm interested in annotating some TV episodes and Movies down to the individual scene (or even frame). For example, I might want to annotating Star Trek: TNG S01E03 or Star Trek: Wrath or Khan to indicate the presence of a character on screen. I could then use those annotations to ask questions like "what percent of the show is this character on screen" or "how many total seconds of the show are these two characters in the same room together in a scene?", depending on how I structure the annotations.
As I see it there are two hard-ish problems I don't know the best solution to here:
- How do I ensure that if I annotate "+00:14:21.512 to +00:16:01.001 - Picard is on screen" that those time stamps meaningfully map onto the most common or standardized time stamps so others who might want to use them and map them to a video file would be likely to get the same points in time. I've thought about referencing to title screen which would work for files that weren't ripped from TV with commercials ripped. Alternatively, I could standardize on the DVD rip or something. Anyone know good practices here?
- Are there any cool tools that people use to create these annotations while doing a watch through? Would love to avoid building it myself.
Thanks for any advice y'all can provide!