DemoCut: generating concise instructional videos for physical demonstrations

  • Authors:

  • Pei-Yu Chi;Joyce Liu;Jason Linder;Mira Dontcheva;Wilmot Li;Bjoern Hartmann

  • Affiliations:

  • University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA;University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA;Adobe Systems, San Francisco, CA, USA;Adobe Systems, San Francisco, CA, USA;Adobe Systems, San Francisco, CA, USA;University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 26th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Amateur instructional videos often show a single uninterrupted take of a recorded demonstration without any edits. While easy to produce, such videos are often too long as they include unnecessary or repetitive actions as well as mistakes. We introduce DemoCut, a semi-automatic video editing system that improves the quality of amateur instructional videos for physical tasks. DemoCut asks users to mark key moments in a recorded demonstration using a set of marker types derived from our formative study. Based on these markers, the system uses audio and video analysis to automatically organize the video into meaningful segments and apply appropriate video editing effects. To understand the effectiveness of DemoCut, we report a technical evaluation of seven video tutorials created with DemoCut. In a separate user evaluation, all eight participants successfully created a complete tutorial with a variety of video editing effects using our system.