Automated Post-Production Editing for User Multimedia

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Solution Overview

Problem

Amateur users face challenges in creating high-quality user-generated multimedia content due to poor editing skills and the complexity of professional video editing software, as well as the lack of synchronization and alignment in footage from multiple devices.

Innovation Solution

A post-production editing platform that performs automated editing using multimodal analysis, including audio and video analysis, to construct a script, add editing instructions, and generate professionally edited content, with interactive refinement options and distribution to social media platforms.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If professional video editing software is used, then editing quality is improved, but operation complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveediting qualityVSAvoidoperation complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs automated post-production editing by analyzing user-generated content and applying editing operations automatically. The processor executes editing instructions based on analyzed semantic meaning and temporal structure, enabling the system to edit its own input content without requiring manual intervention for each editing decision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the operational parameters of video editing by transitioning from manual control to automated control based on multimodal analysis. Editing parameters such as cut points, transitions, and effects are determined algorithmically through audio and video analysis rather than manual adjustment.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Ease of operation

If automated editing is implemented, then ease of operation is improved, but editing quality may deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of useVSAvoidediting quality
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system introduces an intermediary analysis layer between raw user-generated content and final edited output. Multimodal analysis of audio and video serves as an intermediary step that extracts semantic meaning and temporal structure, enabling automated editing decisions that maintain professional quality while preserving ease of use.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system replaces manual mechanical editing operations with automated computational processes. Instead of manual review and adjustment of each edit, the processor automatically executes editing operations based on algorithmic analysis of the content's semantic and temporal properties.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Quantity of substance

If multiple device footages are combined, then content completeness is improved, but synchronization difficulty increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent completenessVSAvoidsynchronization difficulty
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system employs feedback mechanisms through iterative analysis of audio and video streams to determine temporal alignment. The processor continuously refines synchronization by analyzing semantic coherence and temporal relationships across multiple footages, adjusting alignment based on the analyzed results.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary temporal alignment and semantic analysis on multiple footages before final editing operations. By pre-processing and analyzing the temporal structure and semantic content of each footage segment, the system establishes a synchronized framework that simplifies subsequent editing operations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS11812121B2Automated post-production editing for user-generated multimedia contents
Publication Date: 2023.11.07 WEMOVIE TECH
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AI summary

Methods, apparatus and systems related to packaging a multimedia content for distribution are described. In one example aspect, a method for performing post-production editing includes receiving one or more footages of an event from at least one user. The method includes constructing, based on information about the event, a script to indicate a structure of multiple temporal units of the one or more footages, and extracting semantic meaning from the one or more footages based on a multimodal analysis comprising at least an audio analysis and a video analysis. The method also includes adding editing instructions to the script based on the structure of the multiple temporal units and the semantic meaning extracted from the one or more footages and performing editing operations based on the editing instructions to generate an edited multimedia content based on the one or more footages.