{"id":7558,"date":"2012-05-29T11:58:58","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T15:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/?p=7558"},"modified":"2012-05-29T14:08:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T18:08:28","slug":"seamless-video-editing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/seamless-video-editing\/","title":{"rendered":"Seamless Video Editing – A Look Toward the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

A computer application creates seamless transitions and tells you when to cut. \u00a0Will this technology shape the video editing future?<\/h2>\n

What if a computer editing application could tell you where to make your video cuts<\/strong>? \u00a0A new application being developed by researchers at UC Berkely and Adobe Systems aims to do just that…helping editors identify the best spot to make a cut based off of audio and visual features<\/strong> of raw footage. \u00a0The program can auto generate seamless transitions<\/strong> to make the cuts visually smooth and undetectable.<\/p>\n

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In recent years, audio transcription technology<\/strong> has advanced (for instance, the speech transcription tools in Adobe\u00a0Premiere\u00a0Pro and Audition CS6 software). \u00a0This seamless video editing technology is an extension of what we’re seeing in those speech recognition tools, as it pairs the transcription back to the video image and\u00a0analyzes\u00a0it to find areas for optimal cutting. \u00a0From the project’s research paper:<\/p>\n

“We present a\u00a0hierarchical, graph-based algorithm<\/strong> for efficiently generating hidden\u00a0transitions that considers visual features specific to interview\u00a0footage. We also describe a new data-driven technique<\/strong> for setting\u00a0the timing of the hidden transition.”<\/em><\/p>\n

In layman’s terms: Spots of the video where there is little audio or on-screen movement are given priority as ideal spots to cut, and are plotted on a “cut suitability” timeline<\/strong>. \u00a0If necessary the application will insert natural looking pauses to bridge two cuts together. \u00a0 From the product demo (embedded below) it appears that editors can simply delete text from the transcript view and the\u00a0application\u00a0will go to work creating a seamless transition. \u00a0An additional features allows for one-click removal of “ums” and repeated words.<\/p>\n