Patent ID: 7754959

Claim:
A method of automatically creating a soundtrack to accompany a video work, said video work having a time duration associated therewith, wherein there is provided a plurality of music loops, each of said music loops having at least one musical style associated therewith, comprising the steps of: (a) selecting a plurality of emotion tags, each of said emotion tags being associated with at least one mood and said selected plurality of emotion tags comprising at least two different moods and wherein at least one of said selected emotion tags is a restriction tag; (b) assigning each of said plurality of emotion tags to at least one time point within said time duration of said video work, said assignment of said selected plurality of emotion tags being made to at least approximately match a mood of the video work at each time point so assigned; (c) for each of said non-restriction selected emotion tags, selecting at least one of said music loops and said at least one music styles associated therewith, wherein at least one of said selected music loop's at least one musical styles is consistent with said selected emotion tag musical mood; (d) automatically generating a soundtrack to accompany said video work according to said assigned times, said selected emotion tags, and said selected music loops, wherein said generated soundtrack has a reduced volume level proximate to said at least one time points within said time duration of said video work associated with said at least one restriction tags.