Docmarker
During our studio sessions and other practical research work sessions, we noted that we needed a tool to annotate documentation streams. The stream could be an audio file, a video or some line of timed events. Audio editors and DAWs have tools for dropping markers into a file, and there are also tools for annotating video. However, we wanted an easy way of recording timed comments from many users, allowing these to be tied to any sequence of events, wheter recorded as audio, video or in other form. We also wanted each user to be able to make comments without necessarily having access to the file “original”, and for several users to be able to make comments simultaneously. By allowing comments from several users to be merged, one can also use this to do several “passes” of making comments, merging with one’s own previous comments.
Assumedly, one can use this for other kinds of timed comments too. Taking notes on one’s own audio mixes, making edit lists from long interviews, … even marking of student compositions…
The tool is a simple Python script, and the code can be found at
https://github.com/Oeyvind/docmarker
Download, unzip, and run from the terminal with:
python doc_marker.py