Advene

Advene (Annotate Digital Video, Exchange on the Net) is an ongoing project in the LIRIS laboratory (UMR 5205 CNRS) at University Claude Bernard Lyon 1.
Advene is a comprehensive software that was built for creating and sharing annotations about digital videos.
Teachers, moviegoers, etc. can use them to exchange multimedia comments and analyses about video documents. The project also aims at studying the way that communities of users (teachers, moviegoers, students) will use these self-publishing tools to share their audiovisual readings, and to envision new editing and viewing interfaces for interactive comment and analysis of audiovisual content.
The cross-platform Advene application allows users to easily create comments and analyses of video comments, through the definition of time-aligned annotations and their mobilisation into automatically-generated or user-written comment views (HTML documents).
Annotations can also be used to modify the rendition of the audiovisual document, thus providing virtual montage, captioning, navigation capabilities. Users can exchange their comments/analyses in the form of Advene packages, independently from the video itself.