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Video Footnotes: Proof of Concept

Posted on by Pastor Bryan Wolfmueller

Video footnotes. I think I invented the idea, and I’m testing it out. I’d love your help. (If you know of something like this, let me know…)

Here’s what to do:

  1. Download and print this test page:
THE-TEN-COMMANDMENTS-test-page-QRDownload

2. Read and enjoy the beautiful teaching from Luther.
3. Use your cell phone or tablet to scan the QR code. (With most smartphones this means opening your camera and pointing it at the code. That’s all.)
4. Watch the YouTube video explaining the text.
5. Let me know what you think in the comments.

Here’s what it looks like in action:

Thanks for helping out!
PrBW

Pastor Bryan Wolfmueller
Bryan Wolfmueller, pastor of St Paul and Jesus Deaf Lutheran Churches in Austin, TX, author of "A Martyr's Faith for a Faithless World", "Has American Christianity Failed?", co-host of Table Talk Radio, teacher of Grappling with the Text, and theological adventure traveler.

43 Comments

  2. For those not familiar you don’t have to actually print the page out but you can ‘scan’ the code right off of the screen. If you’re using an android phone you can use the app: ‘QR & Barcode Scanner’ to do this.

  6. What a great idea!

    And I would usually print out the page (I’m more of an old-school paper person) but wanted to see if I could get to the teaching videos, reading the doc on my phone w/o 1st printing it. Using the Qrafter app (free version) on my old iPhone 6s, I was able to do just that.

    Thank you for this latest resource, Pastor!

  7. Worked great for me and great content. I hope to share with my daughter that’s in Catechism right now.

  8. Wow, what a great idea! Worked perfectly, and all I did was scan the code right off of my monitor. Oddly, I was doing this as I was listening to you wrap up your introduction to Revelation. Surrounded!

  11. Worked great, What a great idea. Geat way to annotate the Bible, the audio is great and pictures could be included, as well.

  12. I do not have a smart phone so those thingies that are stamped on the notes do nothing for me.

  14. If the owner had more matter between her ears!!! Have been wanting to use the scanner. Found it but still a step or two away. Toooo cold to go out and find a neighbor kid to help me. I will get it accomplished.

    Now computer wants my name. I was hoping to skip that part.

  15. Works, and nice idea. I haven’t seen it used in printed texts, like books, but I’ve seen similar uses of QR codes in museums, zoos, etc. where you can scan a QR code for more text, audio, or video information. For example, it might be a video on the creation of the art piece or how a video of the impact of global warming on some threatened species. Essentially, ways for them to add more in-depth content without building out additional space.

  17. It works great! You might make the QR code a hyperlink so people reading it as a PDF can click the QR to follow the link.

  18. Yes, works for me too, Pastor. Using an iPhone SE. Opened the camera app, focused on the QR code in your document while it’s on screen and it immediately asked me if I wanted to open the link in YouTube. Thanks.

  20. It works, whether on paper or directly off of the screen, as has been mentioned in previous comments.
    But I’m curious as to what situations you would think it would be useful (unless you don’t want to talk about that part yet)?

  27. Concept proved! Very straight forward.
    If you keep the PDF document open on your computer, you can add notes to it and highlight text as you watch the video. If you have Adobe Acrobat, you can do a lot more editing type activities (I only have Adobe PDF reader with limited capabilities). The marked up document could then be saved electronically (with the QR codes) for future reference.

  28. Great Idea@
    I had a sense that we were sitting together side by side and having a personal conversation because of the overhead camera on the document and you writing emphasis points as you commented. One of the keys is keeping the video commentary as short and concise as possible otherwise it will be daunting task from a time standpoint to read even one page . Well done!

  30. What about the idea of linking not only to video, but text, maps, historical photos, etc? Theoretically one could publish a bible that had QR codes book by book, verse by verse which when scanned could bring up an options window on your phone for choosing commentary from the old church fathers for that specific verse or portion of scripture. Idk, just got to thinking about the possibilities of this and how it could enable one to have volumes of commentary contextually in a small package- bible and phone.
    One could also start thinking of doing the same for reference resources like maps, historical photos, archeological information, etc.
    That options window could even include a link to your bible classes you have done for those specific passages.

  32. Pastor Wolfmueller,
    Your idea works great!!! Thanks for all of your work, it is excellent! I refer to it all the time.
    We met some years ago at Doxology, I forget which city. You gave a presentation about organization. I enjoyed it and we talked about it. You are easy to like, Christian love not withstanding.

  33. It’s working for me from the screen and from a print out using an android phone. Waaaaay back in the early days of the internet, there was a device called, Cuecat, you could get free that was shaped like a cat and connected to your computer. Its purpose was to scan special bar codes as you were ready a magazine and your web browser would open up to a web page that had more info. It would also work with tones emitted from a TV program. I recall one tech program that came on Saturday afternoons that used the feature. So, this is another take on that functionality. This is a nice idea for biblical applications.

  36. Easy peasy, and I struggle with technology most of the time. Keep up the great work. Your hands don’t match…..just saying.

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