iOS Usability Request: Highlighting Captures in Browser
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It would be great if a recorded movie capture remained highlighted after playback.
Currently, when tapping a movie/captured even in the list briefly highlights it and then enters full-screen playback. After exiting playback, however, the highlighting is gone, and there’s no way of telling, at a glance, which capture you’ve just watched, unless you remember the date and timestamp. This makes it difficult to navigate a long list of footage, and I regularly end up either skipping the capture of interest or unintentionally watching the same footage several times.
The thumbnails alone are too similar to tell clips apart.
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Thanks for the suggestion, we do see the utility of this, which is why we added the brief highlight after viewing. But, perhaps this is too brief and a longer/indefinite highlight would be preferable. We'll consider this for the next update.
Indeed, when you scroll through a long list of videos the video in question gets lost if highlighted only briefly. What’s more, when you rotate the phone from portrait to landscape, the number of visible entries diminishes, and the video of interest can move offscreen. Then, even the brief highlighting after viewing becomes all but invisible.
While we’re on the subject of the iOS app, how about implementing the above?
Think of the Quick View feature in the Finder. You have a list of videos/images in a folder. You select any one of the, hit Space and watch the file’s contents. Then you quickly go through the files using the up and down arrow keys. The Finder keeps the current file highlighted, so you always know your place in a long list, even if you scroll up and down and the selection goes outside the visible window area.
Imagine if highlighting wasn’t implemented. You’d be going bananas trying to figure out which file you viewed a second ago.