Excellent suggestion - we already built it!
I was actually going to start a thread for this, to explain how it works, because it’s a core part of what we’re trying to do here.
Basically, what is the point of having one million (Dr. Evil voice) hours of video if you can’t find anything? Why can’t I go on Netflix and find all the chase scenes, or all the fight scenes, or all the appearances of a certain actor, or all the times a certain song plays? The world is accumulating massive quantities of video data, but nobody can search it. So metadata for that video material is going to be the next big step.
This kind of searching is even more critical for an instructional platform like ours. Why can’t you go on our platform and find all the times someone talks about sweeping, or pickslanting, or the diminished scale, or anything else? Well now you can.
Well, not right now, but soon! The “T” topics in interview timelines are actually tags, and they’re generic. We can apply them to any video, and any time range within a video. We haven’t built the search screen for this yet, so it’s not apparent. But soon you’ll be able to see all the tags we’ve added to all videos, organized by category - people, places, bands, techniques, etc. You will not only be able to find the videos these things occur in, but you’ll be able to click to go to the precise start time where the tag occurs, just as you can now in video timelines, and in the “References” tab on clips pages.
We’re still adding all these annotations. And we have considered adding a “suggest tag” button on video and clip pages. We already built the database structure for it. Sounds like that’s something you’d use, and that’s awesome - we won’t always be able to find or anticipate the things users want to annotate, so you can help us out in that regard.
When it comes to searching on different types of audio material - songs and exercises, mainly - we plan to implement that a different way, not as a tag, since that type of category usually applies to a whole video.
So, yes, coming soon! Any other thoughts on how we implement these features, list them here and we’ll take note.