Patent ID: 8249426
Filing Date: 2012-08-21
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of automatically editing at least visual media recordings to produce a media production using computer processing means, the method including the steps of: a) setting production criteria, the production criteria including criteria indicative of at least one of: a location in which a collection of discrete media recordings, including at least discrete visual media recordings, is stored so as to be accessible by the computer processing means and from which recordings are to be selected, a preferred duration of the media production, and the type of device on which the media production is to be played; b) automatically selecting ones of the discrete media recordings, including at least ones of the discrete visual media recordings, from the or another collection thereof based on attributes of the recordings and attributes of groups of the recordings; c) producing editing instructions indicative of how the selected recordings are to be operated on by the or other computer processing means to produce a media production that satisfies the production criteria; wherein each said group of recordings is located together in a folder or directory organized under a computer filing system, and wherein the attributes of each such group of recordings indicate when the folder or directory containing the group was accessed, created, modified; and/or indicate the level of that folder or directory in a hierarchy of such folders and/or directories; and/or indicate the title of the folder or directory containing the recordings in that group.