Logging, editing and production system for activities of local interest and related video

摘要

Logging of data about events occurring during an activity is used in video production to reduce the cost of production of video for local audiences. A logging tool is configured to capture data according to a kind of activity, such as a basketball game, football game or other activity of local interest. The logging tool can be preconfigured with information about a specific activity, such as the date, time, venue, and participants, such as teams and players. Data entered for an event occurring during an activity is time stamped. This data is associated and synchronized with video for the event. The time stamped data can be used to generate clips of the video from the activity, based on synchronization between the logged data and the video, and the time stamps of the logged data.

主权项

1. A video production process, comprising:
logging data about events of interest occurring in an activity during the activity, by:
receiving, in a computing device, indications from a user during the activity about occurrences of different kinds of events occurring during the activity, and data about the indicated events;in response to each indication from a user of one of the indicated events, capturing a time stamp of when the indication of the one of the indicated events was received;further in response to each indication from a user of one of the indicated events, transitioning from a primary state, in which the user interface for inputting events is displayed, to an event processing state in which the user interface allows a user to enter data for the indicated event, and transitioning processing from the event processing state to the primary state after a user completes the input for the event;storing, as logged data, the data about the indicated events and the timestamps for the indicated events; capturing video data of the activity, the video data including time stamps for when the video data was captured; in response to user input, selecting with a computing device events of interest for a video production from the logged data; in the computing device, synchronizing the time stamps from the logged data with the time stamps of the captured video data; and generating a set of video clips of the captured video data in the computing device corresponding to the selected events by matching the synchronized time stamps of the selected events to the time stamps of the video data.