I'm making this thread for people to be able to post ideas 
for improvements to editing software.
I've checked some editing software websites for ideas suggestions submittion, but the ones I checked state that they keep the idea and don't need to acknowledge you. I don't want some greedy company profiting from my idea without being willing to give back to me something, hence I past idea here instead so every company can benefit instead of 1 company forcing other companies to pay for rights to use something they have patented that was submitted by a user!
My first idea for video editing software follows:
A function that allows you to import a SCRIPT into the video editing software. Then the software puts the sentences/acts/scenes/dialogues along the time line(or the other way around, haha, depending on how you want to look at it). Then you can import or direct the software where the directory is that contains the video. Then the software scans the videos and uses software that listens (converts spoken words to TEXT) to the video and matches the spoken words to the imported script! Once matched up it then AUTOMATICALLY puts each video clip against the time line corresponding to the words within the script at that point in time.
This would mean that once you have finished filming a movie, all you need to do is import the script and then tell it the directory for the video clips and it AUTOMATICALLY imports the clips and puts them in the appropriate positions!
This could be improved more, such as have the software do calculated guesses as to the best clip/take for a line and automatically choose the best clip/Take for a spoken sentence (where the actor has repeatedly made mistakes, it can find the best one). (Of course you can check manually and have other takes available to choose from).
Also where you have used multiple cameras(or 1 camera for different angles), the software could track mouth movements and automatically swap cameras/clips/takes so that the video is looking at the person that is speaking.
Of course the function that 'listens' to the video and looks over the script for corresponding text, could also be used to create the Subtitles.
If you have a digital storyboard, perhaps software could even use it to visually sort clips (a clip might not have spoken words and so can't be 'listened' to as described above) by looking for visual clues to link up to the storyboard/script. Software could find word 'explosion' and listen for an explosion instead of the spoken word, etc.
The above would be to try and speed up the editing process. You would still need to manually edit and correct and make various choices after the above process has arranged the clips for you.
for improvements to editing software.I've checked some editing software websites for ideas suggestions submittion, but the ones I checked state that they keep the idea and don't need to acknowledge you. I don't want some greedy company profiting from my idea without being willing to give back to me something, hence I past idea here instead so every company can benefit instead of 1 company forcing other companies to pay for rights to use something they have patented that was submitted by a user!
My first idea for video editing software follows:
A function that allows you to import a SCRIPT into the video editing software. Then the software puts the sentences/acts/scenes/dialogues along the time line(or the other way around, haha, depending on how you want to look at it). Then you can import or direct the software where the directory is that contains the video. Then the software scans the videos and uses software that listens (converts spoken words to TEXT) to the video and matches the spoken words to the imported script! Once matched up it then AUTOMATICALLY puts each video clip against the time line corresponding to the words within the script at that point in time.
This would mean that once you have finished filming a movie, all you need to do is import the script and then tell it the directory for the video clips and it AUTOMATICALLY imports the clips and puts them in the appropriate positions!
This could be improved more, such as have the software do calculated guesses as to the best clip/take for a line and automatically choose the best clip/Take for a spoken sentence (where the actor has repeatedly made mistakes, it can find the best one). (Of course you can check manually and have other takes available to choose from).
Also where you have used multiple cameras(or 1 camera for different angles), the software could track mouth movements and automatically swap cameras/clips/takes so that the video is looking at the person that is speaking.
Of course the function that 'listens' to the video and looks over the script for corresponding text, could also be used to create the Subtitles.
If you have a digital storyboard, perhaps software could even use it to visually sort clips (a clip might not have spoken words and so can't be 'listened' to as described above) by looking for visual clues to link up to the storyboard/script. Software could find word 'explosion' and listen for an explosion instead of the spoken word, etc.
The above would be to try and speed up the editing process. You would still need to manually edit and correct and make various choices after the above process has arranged the clips for you.
