Video stop watch

As you watch a video, the keys you press are recorded, together with both times: the time of day, and the elapsed time from the video.

video. Drag in videos from the finder (or the desktop).
keys. Beware of those keys intercepted by the Mac environment or this app's menu. Mostly, the ⌘ key is involved. Beyond that, three keys get special handling:
- left. stop, frame back
- right. stop, frame ahead
- space. stop if playing; play if stopped
recorded. The record can be viewed in the text tab. It's editable.
time of day. This may be of use in the case where your attention in on some live event rather than the video.
elapsed time. When the clock used is the video's, then you can play at speeds other than x1.00, and pause and resume, without bookkeeping.

Play speed

The selector is obeyed if you start play with the space key.

Mark

Imagine that you interpret a moment in time according to what happened just before.

find that time
set the mark
step back — ◀
make your decision
go back to the mark — ●
press the key

Editing

Think ahead to how you will work up the data you collect with this app. One rule you could follow is that notes to yourself are set between octothorpe (#) and end-of-line. (It would then follow that octothorpe is not a good coding key.)

Here is a sample record.

#
# started_at Monday, October 27, 2014 2:02:57 PM
# video_name _cat-vid-720-no2

0.00  14:03:29  play_x_1.00
5.24  14:03:34  q
6.57  14:03:36  w
7.33  14:03:36  e
8.15  14:03:37  f
8.92  14:03:38  g
9.84  14:03:39  k
10.53  14:03:40  9
13.70  14:03:43  option-8
15.84  14:03:45  j
16.63  14:03:46  g
17.57  14:03:47  j
18.52  14:03:48  stop

Saving

The text record is saved automatically (when a video is dragged in, when Clear is clicked, when the app is closed). To see the folder where the files are written, click Files. Save Checkpoint is for the worriers.

To "park" a coding job, click Another. You'll get a new window in which to do other work.

Resize

This button will resize the window, alternately quite large or quite small.

Audio

Audio files are loadable; beware the small drop zone when you do the following load.

A. Earle, St. John's, Canada.
October 2014.