Video annotation tools

1. YouTube video annotation 
 
 Web application. 	 Free to use. 	 Only annotates videos on YouTube. You can only annotate videos you have uploaded, while others can see the annotation. 	 Text annotation (“text bubbles” or notes), highlight part of the screen. 	 All annotations are editable. 
 
 2. Project Pad 
 
 Free to download on the website; open source under GPL . 	 Seems to use Java and Flash; stated requirements include Java, Flash and Quicktime. 	 Standalone (as a Java Servlet-based Web application) or as a part of Sakai 	 Shows timeline. Annotates with text. Does not look like you can draw on the screen. 
 
 3. Vertox 
 
 Made by the Concordia Digital History Lab of Concordia University of Montreal, Canada. 	 “Open source”; license unknown. 	 Requires “Firefox 2.0 browser and QuickTime Player for Mac or Windows; Java Runtime Environment (Windows only); Zotero, a Firefox extension”. 	 Supports “all QuickTime-compatible audio-video formats”. 	 Annotates local video files 	 Annotates with text, tags, time ranges. 
 
 4. Video Annotation and Reference System 
 
 Seems to be tailored towards a particlar application (annotating videos recorded by unmanned vehicles under the ocean). 	 Open source; GPL 
 	 Java-based 
 
 5. Multimedia Annotator 
 
 Not much info available. Seems to let you annotate your own video file in a standalone application. 	 Not free (“$30 for academic license”); no trial version available. 
 
 6. BubblePLY 
 
 Web application. 	 Free to use. 	 All users can create “Bubbles” (annotated videos); registered (free) users can edit their own Bubbles. 	 Annotates remote videos (e.g. those on YouTube) by pasting the URL . 	 Annotates with text, drawing, subtitle, pre-defined clipart, uploaded image file. 
 
 7. VideoANT 
 
 Web application. 	 Free to use. 	 Source: YouTube video 	 Annotate with time point marker and text 
 
 8. Video Annotation through CCLE 
 
 Web application 	 Need a CCLE Moodle site 
 	 Annotates videos from YouTube and the UCLA TV News Archive 
 	 Annotates with text tags and events, as well as geolocation 
 
 9. vatic 
 
 Web application 	 Free 	 Crowdsource video annotation to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk 
 
 10. frametrail 
 
 Open source, but you will have to host the software 	 Annotate with text overlays, images or interactive maps