Patent ID: 8006186

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of constructing output data constituting a music-based audiovisual media production for display on an audiovisual display device, from input data including both visual media and musical media, the method including the steps of: (a) performing signal analysis upon the musical media to generate a series of music descriptor values, said signal analysis being performed upon the musical media at a micro timescale including beats and sub-beats, each of the music descriptor values indicating the presence of a perceptually-significant characteristic of the musical media at a corresponding time in the music, said music descriptor values including edit hints, each edit hint corresponding to a certain time in the input music data, said edit hints including edit hints corresponding to respective times between said beats; (b) receiving from a user an input indicative of the values of a set of editing parameters; (c) defining segments of the visual media according to said series of music descriptor values and said set of editing parameters; and (d) concatenating a plurality of said segments of the visual media.