Greek and Roman Mythology 0:01 Thebes 0:15 Foundation of Thebes 0:49 Lekythos with birth of Dionysus; c. 460. Boston MFA 2:34 Hermes brings Dionysus to the nymphs of Nysa 3:37 Dionysus, satyrs, and maenads on exterior of preceding 4:25 Maenad dancing 5:25
However, when I look at the contents or the transcript of the lecture that
is provided under "Captions" on the Panoptop webpage, I see the
timestamps at the end of
lines rather than on a following line. To have the timestamps appear at the
end of a the lines with which they are associated, I paste the text into the
Vim editor
on a Windows systemand then use the command v/\d:\d\d\n/s/\n/ /
that replaces the
end-of-line character at
the end of all lines that don't have a timestamp with a space, instead.
The /v instructs the gvim editor to take an action based on
the pattern that follows for all lines not matching that pattern. In this case
I want to look for all lines that don't have a digit, represented by
\d, followed by a colon then two more digits and then the
newline character
represented by a \n in the regular expression between the two
forward slashes
that enclose the pattern I don't wish to match. E.g., 0:15
would match the pattern and would thus be a line on which I don't want the
action to apply. After the second slash (/) that signals the
end of the search pattern, the s indicates that I want to
perform a subsitution, i.e., a replacement command, on all lines that don't
match the pattern. For those lines, I want to replace the newline character,
which appears at the end of the line, with a space, instead. So the pattern
that I want to replace, i.e., the \n, appears between two
forward slashes and is then followed by a space for the replacement
pattern, i.e,, the space between the last two slash characters is the
replacement pattern to be substituted for the newline character. When I apply
the command to the above text, I see the result below:
Greek and Roman Mythology 0:01 Thebes 0:15 Foundation of Thebes 0:49 Lekythos with birth of Dionysus; c. 460. Boston MFA 2:34 Hermes brings Dionysus to the nymphs of Nysa 3:37 Dionysus, satyrs, and maenads on exterior of preceding 4:25 Maenad dancing 5:2
But I've found for Captions that I need to apply the command a second time to have all of the timestamps appear at the end of the accompanying line of text, since in some cases what the professor has said appears over two lines in the transcript. E.g., in cases such as the example below:
In this video, I'm just going to introduce you to 0:00 the major characteristics and 0:03 attributes of the god Dionysus. 0:06 We're going to start by talking 0:08 about where he comes from. 0:10
Once I've applied the command once, I see the following:
In this video, I'm just going to introduce you to 0:00 the major characteristics and 0:03 attributes of the god Dionysus. 0:06 We're going to start by talking 0:08 about where he comes from. 0:10
Applying the command a second time, I then see the following, which is what I want:
In this video, I'm just going to introduce you to 0:00 the major characteristics and 0:03 attributes of the god Dionysus. 0:06 We're going to start by talking 0:08 about where he comes from. 0:10
Then, if I'm reviewing material covered, I can search for text in the text file I've saved and find where in the lecture the professor discussed a particular topic and then quickly access the relevant point in the video, if I want to rewatch that particular section of the video.
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