Inaugural first: Explore video in a new way

From Stokes Young, director of multimedia @ http://msnbc.com There have been a lot of historic firsts today. Here at NBC News we're excited that, on the occasion of Barack Obama's oath of office and inaugural address, we're offering our own small first step for online news video. For the first time, you can use a video clip's transcript to: Jump to and play any point in the video by clicking on the word where you want to begin See the most commonly used terms in a video clip and select them to see them highlighted in the transcript and on the timeline Search a video clips transcript for the words you want to watch play in the video, and go right to them Select a subclip of a longer clip to embed on your blog or Web site That last feature bears some explaining, even though in the end it's about as simple as copying and pasting in a text document. For the example below, I first went to the clip of the swearing-in and inaugural address at http://inauguration.msnbc.com . ...( read more ) (link)