Youtube annotations as commentary?

[rrh]

So, I'm interested in using the annotations on Youtube as a sort of director's commentary and I want to get a sense of how to approach this.

One problem is that annotations are on by default. Obviously, people should see the normal version first and then they should have the option of seeing the annotations, so that's kind of backwards for this purpose.

So then I thought, hey, didn't Youtube have some sort of remixer function? I could duplicate my video as a "remix," annotate that, and add it as a reply to the original version. But apparently they've disabled the remixer (http://help.youtube.com/group/youtube-howto/browse_thread/thread/7c9fabe5b41bc118/a690341a8eaca899?lnk=gst&q=&fwc=1)because of technical problems?

So does this mean I need to re-upload all the same videos again? That's kind of disappointing; I'm not sure I still have Youtube-friendly files right now.

Any other suggestions for doing commentary on one of my Youtube clips?

[KelvTwelve]

People can turn off the annotations you know. You can put up a message on saying how to turn off the annotations before the movie starts.

[Vaughn Whynot]

why not just use there commentary option
instead of annotations?

[rrh]

There is a commentary option? I can't find it in the youtube help, because there's too many people referring to the comments section as "commentary." If that's what you mean, then I'd prefer annotations to making a dozen comments that say "at 2:34 ...." "at 3:06 ...."


Maybe I could do the "turn off annotations" spiel as the first annotation like KelvTwelve said, but it feels like an inelegant solution. Imagine if every DVD with a commentary track defaulted to playing the commentary and so they always had to start with "If you just want to view the movie normally, press the 'language' button on your remote."

I found this guy (http://help.youtube.com/group/youtube-testtube/browse_thread/thread/f89f4f7b88a32986?hl=en-GB) while searching Youtube's help. He's got the same idea as me.

[Vaughn Whynot]

http://uk.youtube.com/t/captions_about
and
http://help.youtube.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=100077