Youtube is not only made of music videos or entertainment but it is also a great resource for work and study. We watch videos with tutorials, documentary videos, video lessons, videos of debates, conferences, parliamentary meetings and much more. When you watch a video for study or work and you have to take notes, a simple but very useful free web application has been designed which greatly facilitates the task of transcribing or writing notes while watching videos . Without then opening the video in one part of the screen and then keeping a OneNote note sheet open on the other side and without going crazy to pause and restart the video from time to time, you can go to a special site.
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OTranscribe is a site that offers itself as a tool for school, study and work. The application allows you to transcribe video or audio files and also to paste the link of a Youtube video to view it and take notes while watching, as notes line by line. As the video starts playing, you can move to the clipboard section to write, pressing Enter when you want to change the line. You can add bold or italic writing with the buttons on the right and you can also see the writing history to go back and cancel. The clock button is used to set the time of the video on the sheet, so as to know what the note refers to. This time is also clickable to jump directly to that point.
The most significant peculiarity is that the notes are synchronized with the video so you can click on the various notes to jump from one piece to another of the video. This is the "smart solution" for taking notes while watching the video to be able to shoot them.
OTranscribe also allows you to control the playback of the video so that you can stop watching and resume it without stopping writing the notes. You can speed up or slow down playback to better follow what is being said and you can also add subtitles to the video, perhaps to translate it. When necessary, you can press the CTRL-Space key combination to freeze playback and press them again to resume . All notes can be saved or loaded from the Import Export menu.
OTranscribe also supports video sharing with notes becoming an ideal tool for study groups.
If there was the addition of a real-time chat, a more complete and less basic text editor and if hypertext links could also be created, we would be faced with a truly phenomenal application. Hoping that there will be improvements in the future, this site remains the best one for taking notes while watching a Youtube video.
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