In the Mini Data Frame panel, there is a section dedicated to comments. The first time you log in and use this section make sure your User Preferences are complete, so you can enter new comments and modify existing ones. Your data are stored in a Flash object (similar to a browser cookie) and remembered the next time you log in.
Comments tab: Click on the comments tab and you will see a table with a list of all the comments; you can rearrange the order of the columns. Select a comment by clicking on it, to select two or more consecutive comments use the Shift key and to select non consecutive comments use the Cmd/Control key. To open and edit a comment double-click on it, the comment will open in a new tab. You can swap the order of the comment tabs.
Other functionalities are:
Filter: used to look for specific comments. It supports multiple search criteria:
By default it matches parts of words and searches across all comment fields.
To have an exact match, use double quotes before the term you are searching e.g. "modal verb
Exclusion search function: use a dash to exclude terms from the search results e.g. -(the terms you want to exclude)
Use the pipe character ( | ) to specify multiple search criteria at once e.g. will | ("modal verb) you can also use the OR keyword instead of the pipe character.
Brackets can be used to group the search setups described above e.g. -(the terms you want to exclude) | ("modal verb).
The filter functionality is not case sensitive.
Delete selected: used to delete selected comments from the comment list. The interface panels are synchronized so what you delete in the Mini Data Frame also disappears from the timeline overlays.
Click on New Comment to create a new comment. A new tab will automatically open for the new comment. To set up the comment options you can click on Edit and fill in the start and end time, you can also add the tier and the recipient e-mails. The time and the recipient boxes should be highlighted in green, if they are red either the start time comes after the end time or the e-mail address is not valid. To accept the changes click OK.
To preselect the time and Tier for a New Comment in timeline based modes, you can select a chunk in the timeline and a tier in the Tier tab of the Mini Data Frame before clicking on New Comment. In the Text, Grid and Subtitle modes you can preselect the Tier by clicking on an annotation.
Click on Save Comment to save the comment. If you have more than one unsaved comment you can save them at the same time by clicking on the Comments tab and then Save Modified, you will notice that the asterisk near the name of the comment in the tab will disappear, meaning that your changes have been successfully saved. Click To Mail to target a comment directly to its recipient, if you want to send multiple comments, click on the Comments tab, select the comments you want to send and click To Mail, in this case you have to fill in the recipients yourself.
Play a comment segment by double clicking on a comment on the list, the time segment of the comment is selected and you can play it by clicking the Play Selection button on the left, the same can be done by double clicking a comment overlay in the timeline.
When you select a comment in the list of comments, both the video and the timeline jump to the begin time of the comment.