Unified Video Clip Creation Interface for Live Event Editing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Creating short video clips from multiple video sources of live events is cumbersome and time-consuming, requiring multiple operators or serial navigation, leading to delays in making clips available to end users.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus that allow one-click selection of start and stop points for video clips from multiple sources, enabling quick creation and annotation, with suggested related content bundled and stored in a database, displayed as an array of thumbnails representing time and video sources.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If multiple operators are assigned to edit and clip each video feed, then video clips can be created from multiple sources, but the device complexity and operational difficulty increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges multiple video feeds into a single unified interface displaying all feeds simultaneously. A single operator can view and clip from all feeds through one interface, eliminating the need for multiple operators working on separate feeds. The clipping function consolidates what would otherwise require multiple independent editing operations into a single coordinated action.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides a universal clipping interface that handles multiple video feeds with a single set of controls. The same clipping mechanism works across all feeds simultaneously, allowing one operator to perform functions that would otherwise require multiple specialized operators for each feed.
2Ease of operation
If one user navigates through each video feed serially to create clips, then the process is simplified to single operator, but the time required to create clips increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system transitions from serial navigation through feeds to simultaneous display of all feeds in a spatial arrangement. Instead of moving through feeds one by one in time, the operator can see all feeds at once in a multi-dimensional grid layout, enabling parallel observation and rapid selection across all sources without temporal delay.
Solution Approach 2:
The system prepares and displays all video feeds in advance in a ready-to-clip state before the clipping action is initiated. All feeds are pre-loaded and organized in the interface, so when the operator initiates clipping, no navigation or loading delays occur during the actual clip creation moment.
3Ease of manufacture
If clips are annotated after creation, then the clipping process is simplified, but the overall time to make clips available increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs annotation during the clipping process itself rather than as a subsequent separate step. As clips are being created and captured from the video feeds, annotation data is simultaneously generated and attached to each clip, eliminating the sequential delay of doing clipping first and annotation afterward.
Solution Approach 2:
The clipping and annotation processes run continuously and simultaneously rather than sequentially. While clips are being captured and created, the annotation function continues to operate in parallel, attaching metadata and labels without interrupting or waiting for the clipping to complete, thereby maintaining continuous productive action throughout.
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AI summary
A method and apparatus for creating video clips is provided herein. A method includes displaying, by a client device, one or more video streams, displaying, by the client device, a plurality of soft buttons, each of the plurality of soft buttons associated with a different length of time, receiving, by the client device, a selection of a soft button from the plurality of soft buttons, and displaying, by the client device, a presentation area including one or more segments of the one or more video streams, the one or more segments of the length of time associated with the selected soft button and captured from the one or more video streams, wherein the presentation area has an x-axis representing time. The method further includes receiving, by the client device, selection information indicating for each of the one or more segments a starting point and an ending point selected by a user from the presentation area, and displaying, by the client device, an indication of the creation of a video clip from the one or more segments based on the selection information.