Browser The Individeo browser occupies the left half of the interface. The browser provides an overall visualization of how filmmakers are reusing their shared video content, by showing the different ways a shared video clip has been edited into various sequences. Two related contexts are represented within the interface: the disparate contexts into which a particular media element is placed through editing, and the shared context among multiple sequences that contain the common media element. While browsing, users can select and watch a video sequence, which is played back in the player using streaming video. More about browsing The browser displays video clips and sequences within a dynamic, responsive grid structure. A variant of generalized fisheye views is used to scale the potentially large number of clips and sequences within the limited area.

In the browser, sequences are displayed along the top-left / bottom-right diagonal. Each sequence is represented by the thumbnails of the clips in the sequence, arranged along the diagonal line. When a clip in a particular sequence is selected by the user as the focal point of interest, that clip and its sequence are hilited and animated towards the center of the browsing area. Once the focus clip is positioned in the center, the browser extracts information about the clip from the database, and displays all of the existing sequences in the database that contain the focus clip. Each of these additional sequences are connected to each other by their own instances of the focus clip. The result is that the browser shows all instances of the focus clip along the top-right / bottom-left diagonal running through the center of the browsing area. The browser allows users to fluidly move from clip to clip within a sequence, and gain a broad understanding of how the clips have been reused in disparate sequences. Also, users can move from sequence to sequence through their connection of the shared clip, and discover relationships among multiple sequences. The activity of fluid browsing becomes a constantly revealing experience. Each sequence is presented as part of a web of interconnected sequences, rather than as an isolated creation. More about searching Users can also search for video clips that share a common keyword annotation. When a clip becomes the focus clip, its keywords are displayed inside the clip itself. Users can select a keyword to begin a keyword search. They can also specify the desired keyword in the search keyword field. A history of previous search keywords is displayed below the search keyword field, and selecting any of these keywords will retrieve the previous search result.

2 ways of searching for clips and sequences. Left: Users can scroll over the focus clip's associated keywords, displayed inside the clip. Selecting a keyword ("honeymoon") will begin a keyword search. Right: Users can enter the desired keyword into the search keyword field. A selectable history of previous search keywords ("cafe" and "ben") is available below the search keyword field. The search results are displayed in the browser in the same form as a sequence, integrated into the overall dynamic structure, with the first matching clip as the new focus clip. This provides increased flexibility in switching fluidly between the two activities of browsing and searching. Editor The Individeo editor occupies the right half of the interface. The editor allows users to create simple sequences composed of video clips and text inter-titles.

To edit a sequence, users can drag over from the browser any clips they want to edit with. They can arrange those clips into a sequence by simply laying them out in the editing area. To compose the sequence, the editor will parse the layout of the clips inside the editing area. The editor follows the typical Western rule for reading, going from top-left to bottom-right: the topmost / leftmost clip becomes the first clip in the sequence, much like a traditional comic book. The freeform storyboard-like editing interface encourages casual rearrangement and reordering of clips within a sequence. The aim is to simplify and move away from the traditional, precision-oriented timeline interface of most non-linear editing software. Users can also incorporate text inter-titles into a sequence; the inter-title format helps juxtapose video and text within the shared context of the sequence. Text inter-titles can also be used to insert comments and feedback into the sequence. When the sequence is played back, the inter-titles play back in the form of black-and-white inter-titles.

Adding a text inter-title to the editing area. Users can type the desired text into the text clip field. The resulting text clip can be dragged and repositioned within a sequence like the video clips. Player The player is at the top of the interface, between the browser and the editor. The player can be used to play back sequences in both the browser and the editor. The player also contains the button for uploading a new sequence from the editor.

Playing a clip & uploading a sequence. The left play button will play the current focus sequence in the browser. The right play button will play the current sequence in the editor, as specified by the clips inside the editing area. The upload button (the upward-pointing triangle, to the right of the editor play button) will upload the current sequence in the editor. Credits Individeo was designed and implemented with the help of undergraduate research assistant Jocelyn Lin. James Jung-Hoon Seo | 2.15.2002