Patent ID: 11955142
Assignee: GOPRO, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 9:
10. A method for editing videos, the method performed by a computing system including one or more processors, the method comprising:
obtaining, by the computing system, video information defining a video, the video including visual content having a progress length;
obtaining, by the computing system, a music file defining a recording of music to provide accompaniment for a video edit of the video, the recording of the music generated by a computing device using a MIDI file for the music, characteristics of the music defined within MIDI information of the MIFI file, wherein the MIDI information of the MIDI file that defines the characteristics of the music is embedded in a metadata track of the music file for the recording of the music, the characteristics of the music including beats and melody of the music;
extracting, by the computing system, the characteristics of the music from the metadata track of the music file without analyzing the recording of the music;
selecting, by the computing system, one or more types of visual effect to be applied to the visual content based on the characteristics of the music; and
generating, by the computing system, the video edit of the video, the video edit including the one or more types of visual effect applied to the visual content and including accompaniment of the music.