METHOD FOR EDITING MULTIPLE VIDEO FILES AND MATCHING THEM TO AUDIO FILES

• US 20150071619A1
• Filed: 09/09/2013
• Published: 03/12/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/08/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Michael Brough
• Original Assignee: Michael Brough
• Inventors: Brough, Michael
• Granted Patent: US 9,767,850 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/285
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/031 Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/10 Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Measuring tape travel

Abstract

A software application for mobile devices enables users to easily create a fully-edited short video by combining video clips of various lengths to form a final video that resembles a Hollywood-style, professionally edited video clip. The videos are automatically edited to the music cuts using pre-programmed storyboards and transitions that align with the user'"'"'s thematic selection. There are few steps involved in the process making for a user-friendly experience. The professional style video clip is produced on a user'"'"'s phone in only 45 seconds and can then be shared with friends via email, YouTube, Facebook and other forms of social media.

Claims

1. A method of playing one or more clips along with a selected musical theme with a mobile device comprising:

storing in said device a plurality of musical themes, preparing a cutlist of the occurrence of musical cues in each of said themes, storing one or more video clips in said device, selecting a musical theme, playing said one or more clips synchronously with a selected theme, cutting said one or more clips at times therein corresponding to the cutlist of the selected theme, and organizing said one or more clips with a continuous audio track.

2. A method as in claim 1 wherein said one or more clips has a duration of greater than three seconds.

3. A method as in claim 2 wherein said one or more clips of different durations.

4. A method as in claim 3 comprising determining how many times a clip of said one or more clips is used.

5. A method as in claim 3 comprising calculating the proportion of the length of each of said one or more clips to the total length of all said clips.

6. A method as in claim 5 comprising multiplying the proportion of claim 5 by the number of said cuts.

7. A method as in claim 6 comprising selecting the lesser of the number of claim 1 and the number of claim 5.

8. A method of creating a video with an accompanying musical theme with a mobile device comprising storing in said mobile device a plurality of musical themes, storing in said device a cutlist of musical cues in each of said themes, storing one or more clips in said mobile device, selecting a stored musical theme, selecting from said video a plurality of scenes of durations determined by said cutlist, forming a sequence of the selected scenes, into an audio track.

9. A method as in claim 8 wherein said selecting comprises calculating the proportion of the length of each of said one or more clips to the total length of all of said clips, multiplying each calculated proportion by the number of said cuts.

10. A method as in claim 9 comprising determining the number of times a clip is used in said audio track.

11. A method of forming a video with all accompanying audio track in a mobile device comprising storing a plurality of musical themes in said mobile device, storing in said mobile device, selecting a musical theme from said plurality of stored musical themes, selecting from said clips a plurality of scenes of durations determined b said cutlist, organizing said plurality of scenes in a sequence, corresponding determined by said cutlist.