05 - Working with Blank Pages

In this video, we will teach you how to build custom pages as part of your AVAnnotate project. The blank page feature provides AVAnnotate users the flexibility to structure and design their project outside of the preset format of auto-generated pages.

In the Site Builder tab, select “Add Page,” and then “Blank Page.” What this will do is create a fully customizable page, which you can use to differently showcase the audiovisual events you’ve already created in your project, or build out new pages with essays, images, or other media related to your project. You can also use a custom page to create a bibliography, compare clips from your AV events, or display your AV events alongside other related media.

Once you’ve created the blank page, go ahead and give it a title. You can edit the page title at any time. You can also assign the new blank page a “parent” page. When you create a new blank page, it will not be associated with a particular event in your project until you manually assign it via the Parent Page dropdown menu. Selecting “No Parent” will let this new page stand alone in the project. Selecting a parent for the new page will subordinate the new page so that it appears under another page in the project’s Table of Contents.

If, for example, I was using this blank page to feature additional media that I want to associate with a particular event, I would select the AV event’s existing page as the parent of this new page. In this way, the blank page feature can be used to structure a project and create relationships between different pages.

To add an existing Event to a custom page, select “Insert,” and then “Embed AV.” You’ll then see the option to select one of your audiovisual events, and then customize what elements of the events you want to appear on the blank page. The default will include the event’s annotations, label, and description that you inputted when you created the event, but you can choose to include or exclude any of these details when embedding an event on a custom page.

Additionally, you can choose to include only a clip of a given event, and then select the start and end times of the clip you want featured on the new blank page. You can also insert multiple clips side-by-side on a blank page. Select “Insert,” and then “Compare AV,” and follow the same steps.