A semi-automatic approach to home video editing

Hitchcock is a system that allows users to easily create custom videos from raw video shot with a standard video camera. In contrast to other video editing systems, Hitchcock uses automatic analysis to determine the suitability of portions of the raw video. Unsuitable video typically has fast or erratic camera motion. Hitchcock first analyzes video to identify the type and amount of camera motion: fast pan, slow zoom, etc. Based on this analysis, a numerical “unsuitability” score is computed for each frame of the video. Combined with standard editing rules, this score is used to identify clips for inclusion in the final video and to select their start and end points. To create a custom video, the user drags keyframes corresponding to the desired clips into a storyboard. Users can lengthen or shorten the clip without specifying the start and end frames explicitly. Clip lengths are balanced automatically using a spring-based algorithm.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: UIST
• Authors: Andreas Girgensohn, John S. Boreczky, Patrick Chiu, John Doherty, Jonathan Foote, Gene Golovchinsky, Shingo Uchihashi, Lynn Wilcox
• Keywords: Raw Video, Software Engineering, Standard Video Camera, UIST 2000, Video