You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
Replay feature request: download video with burnt-in captions
Hi Replay team, The blurb for Dropbox Replay video transcriptions feature currently reads: "You can add transcripts to video and audio files in Dropbox Replay, and create closed captions for videos. Once generated, you can edit the transcript, select a section to skip to that timestamp, and copy or share the transcripts." I believe it would also be helpful if we could add, "and download a version of a video with closed captions burnt in", or words to that effect. Essentially, the option to download the video with captions - ie what is displayed on the screen in Replay when captions are enabled. As a stretch goal, it would be helpful to have some simple formatting of the caption format (font, position, size) etc. Yes, our editors/NLEs are able to do this too, but there are good workflow/cycle reasons why it makes sense to do this in Replay: internal/external reviewers are able to review/amend transcripts here (cuts down unnecessarily feedback loops to editors who aren't necessary subject matter experts on the material); we're already generating .SRT caption files in Replay so it's ideal if they are consistent with the captions burnt into the video. Yes, best practice in many cases is to deliver clean video and an .SRT file so that the viewer/player can choose - but there are still plenty of cases where clients request versions of the video with burnt-in captions. I know that will be useful for us - anybody else here too? Thanks, David
Weird transparency issue when using Dropbox Replay with an Apple ProRes video file
When uploading a ProRes MOV with graphics to Dropbox Replay, we see a weird transparency grid during graphic transitions when full-screen graphics appear in the video - during playback. Has anyone come across this issue before?
Can we send certain data to spreadsheets?
The ability to send data such as creation date, author, proof status, who approved, etc. would be useful. to a spreadsheet. The medium functionality that is present in Smarsheet. This allows you to create very useful automations in the case of large work teams and many projects to manage.
Attaching files and scaling in Dropbox Replay
Good afternoon Thank you for your service, I would like it to be even better and faster to use. I have several suggestions. 1. What's sorely missing from Dropbox Replay is the ability to attach files to comments. Sometimes we just need to upload/attach a reference that will make the comment more understandable. 2. I would like to be able to scale the timeline of a video in Dropbox Replay. There are a lot of comments during the video. And in order to carry out more detailed work on errors, you need to be able to stretch/enlarge the timeline in order to work accurately and in detail. This would be a cool implementation.
