SILVER: simplifying video editing with metadata

Digital video is becoming increasingly ubiquitous. However, editing video remains difficult for several reasons: it is a time-based medium, it has dual tracks of audio and video, and current tools force users to work at the smallest level of detail. Based on interviews with professional video editors, we developed a video editor, called Silver, that uses metadata to make digital video editing more accessible to novices. To help users visualize video, Silver provides multiple views with different content and at different levels of abstraction, including storyboard, editable transcript, and timeline views. Silver offers smart editing operations that help users resolve the inconsistencies that arise because of the different boundaries in audio and video. Keywords Digital video editing, multimedia authoring, metadata, Silver, Informedia

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: CHI
• Authors: A. Chris Long, Juan P. Casares, Brad A. Myers, Rishi Bhatnagar, Scott M. Stevens, Laura Dabbish, Dan Yocum, Albert T. Corbett
• Keywords: CHI 2003, Human Computer Interaction, Keywords Digital Video, Professional Video Editors, Users Visualize Video