Newer for the annotation tool

[YangBain]

@antingshen Could you give me a brief introduction (step by step) about how to using this tool to annotate video such as upload video, create links etc. . I am not very clear for the readme file. Thank you very much.

[antingshen]

Please try the readme file and let me know what's unclear. The gist is:

1. upload videos wherever you want
2. create video objects in beaverdam/db
3. annotate

Happy to help if you get stuck at a step

[YangBain]

@antingshen Thank you very much for your reply. I am sorry for disturb you again.
Although there are some introduction for the video: "To add videos, one must upload the video to a CDN (or use /annotator/static/videos to serve on the same server), then create a Django video object that contains the url (host + filename) to the video file." I still do not know how to upload video, could you describe this part more clearly for me.
And also how to create video objects in beaverdam/db and finally get the link?
Thanks for your understanding.

[antingshen]

BeaverDam's database does not store videos. Upload your video to whichever service you want to use to serve videos. If you want BeaverDam to serve your videos, put them in the static folder, (likely /static, see Django Static Files) and use your static link as the url (likely /static/folder/your_video.mp4)

[pnambiar]

I am new to this tool as well. I find the instructions a bit confusing. All I want to do is a list of sequential images ( Not using mechanical turk)

1. Do I have to convert it to mp4. Is there an option to use the list of images?
2. I put the videos in the the static folder.
   Then what? Could you please provide a step by step instruction? That will be really helpful.

[antingshen]

1. Instead of putting video paths in your DB/Video objects, put a list of image paths
2. Put images at those paths (aka your static folder).