{"id":3219,"date":"2008-06-04T23:45:28","date_gmt":"2008-06-04T18:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/?p=3219"},"modified":"2020-04-01T16:51:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T11:21:34","slug":"youtube-videos-annotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2008\/06\/youtube-videos-annotations\/","title":{"rendered":"Create Interactive Youtube Videos with Annotations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Want to add more interactivity in your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Youtube<\/a> videos? They have introduced a new feature called <strong>video annotations<\/strong> that allows you to add background information, create branching stories or add links to any YouTube video, channel, or search results page at any point in your video. <\/p>\n<p>You can edit to add an <strong>unlimited number of annotations<\/strong> to the videos simply by clicking the blue &#8220;Edit Annotations&#8221; button to the right of the video. Try inserting commentary by adding speech bubbles, notes and highlight boxes, or edit start\/stop times or add links to your annotations. &#8220;Publish&#8221; and it goes live. <\/p>\n<p>This opens up endless options to <strong>create an interactive video<\/strong> to involve the viewer and goes much beyond simple boring video watching. Used in moderation, this will be great way to convey the video message better. I just found a beautiful video so cluttered with annotations everywhere that makes me realize that amateur video makers will now need a new skill to master. <\/p>\n<p>What if viewers do not like annotations disturbing the video experience? they simply <strong>turn it off<\/strong> from the bottom menu. See this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tbEei0I3kMQ\" rel=\"noopener\">magic trick video with annotations<\/a> to get a good idea how this works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to add more interactivity in your Youtube videos? They have introduced a new feature called video annotations that allows&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}