How We Built Video Annotations w/ tldraw

17/01/2025 16 min

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Episode Synopsis

We built video annotations with tldraw! It’s a new feature we’re launching next week, and we’re really excited for all you Jamming to try it. So today, Jam engineers: Max, Aidan, and Rui get into the technical details of implementing the tldraw library - so you can draw stuff while recording your screen.Excited to show you what we built!(00:37) Why implementing annotations was so different than the blur tool(02:55) How Max discovered we already had a tldraw license(04:25) Why we love tldraw: React-SVG dual architecture & more details(08:55) Demo of video annotations & why it’s different than Jam’s screenshot feature(11:29) Why we ultimately decided to use tldraw for video too (it looks so nice!)(12:52) Our biggest takeaway for building w/ 3rd party librariesSubscribe to Building Jam on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts. New episodes drop every Friday at 10AM ET. See you there!