Well, no I wasn't kidding, but I'm far enough from the nitty-gritty of video editing to be way off base! I was wondering whether there are any artificial intelligence tools for helping an editor do his/her job, by automatically proposing some edits, which the editor would then accept or reject or modify. This would require the machine to know a whole lot about the content, which would require detailed tagging of individual shots with labels saying what they contained; and it would also require a lot of machine understanding of a style or styles of how to put the stuff together into a satisfying composition. I'm guessing that such tools, in some form, will show up in the next few years, and wondered whether AVID or others you'd heard of are working on such stuff. Specifically, it seems that some of the work AVID has done for ENG/newscutter systems may be a good platform on which to build these higher level tools, but as I said, I may be way of base on this....
David Schoenbach |
