Source of Labor

February 8th, 2006
Categories: Accessibility, Interaction, Meta-data, Movies, OS X

As with all annotations and chapter titles, it would be nice to have QuickTime video subtitles indexed by Spotlight. I have no clue as to the technical feasibility of this, but the text of the displayed frame is searchable within QuickTime Player (Command-R), so I would think it could be done.

  1. I am trying to recall a labor statistic that Stephen Colbert mentioned on his show. I know he used the specific phrase “Labor Department”, so I enter that in the Spotlight search field.
  2. The subtitled QuickTime movie appears in the result list.
    Spotlight search for 'Labor Department'
  3. Opening the movie automatically moves to the point at which the phrase “Labor Department” first appears.
    Stephen Colbert cites a Labor Department statistic

If both a chapter and subtitle contained the same text, I think the subtitle should be given more weight; it is more specific and likely easier for the user to put in context.

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