Custom Track Creation via Video-Audio Timeline Correlation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Fans often face long delays in obtaining high-quality live concert recordings, and there is a desire for users to create custom video or audio tracks from specific performances, which is not efficiently facilitated by existing technologies.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that allows users to create custom tracks by correlating video clips with an audio track's timeline, using a user interface with multiple video source windows and an audio track timeline, enabling selection and synchronization of video clips during audio playback.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If users wait for official concert recordings released by recording companies, then high-quality recordings are available, but fans must wait for months or years
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by capturing video and audio signals during the live concert event itself, creating a timeline of the performance as it happens. This preliminary capture allows the recording to be ready immediately after the event without requiring months or years of processing or waiting for official releases.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a copy of the live performance by capturing video and audio signals and storing them as a timeline that can be later extracted and delivered to fans. This copying process enables fans to receive recordings immediately without waiting for official master recordings to be processed and released.
2Reliability
If recording companies produce mass-produced recordings, then quality is maintained, but fans cannot have recordings from specific venues they attended
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the concert recording into multiple video clips from different camera angles and positions, each corresponding to specific portions of the performance timeline. This segmentation allows fans to select and customize their recording to match their specific venue experience rather than receiving a generic mass-produced recording.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides dynamic customization capabilities where fans can interact with the timeline and video clips to create custom recordings tailored to their specific concert experience. The system adapts the recording based on user selections rather than following a fixed mass-production template.
3Adaptability or versatility
If a user interface allows manual selection of video clips from multiple sources, then custom tracks can be created, but the process becomes complex
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces an intermediary timeline representation that mediates between the multiple video clips and the user's selection process. Instead of requiring users to manually navigate through multiple video sources, the timeline serves as an intermediary structure that organizes clips by time, making the selection process simpler and more intuitive.
Solution Approach 2:
The timeline interface serves multiple functions simultaneously: it displays the audio track, shows video clip options, provides time reference, and enables synchronization. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate controls and simplifies the overall user interface while maintaining custom track creation capabilities.
Data Source
AI summary
A system for allowing a user to create a custom track on a user apparatus, the user apparatus having a display is described. A memory stores a plurality of video clips and an audio track having a timeline. An application is stored in the memory. The application is configured to provide, on the display of the user apparatus, a plurality of video source windows, each of the plurality of video source windows corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of video clips. The application is further configured to allow the user to create the custom track while the audio track is playing by correlating portions of the plurality of video clips with the audio track by selecting respective ones of the plurality of video source windows at desired times in the timeline of the audio track.