In video production, inserting B-roll is a widely used technique to enrich the story and make a video more engaging. However, determining the right content and positions of B-roll and actually inserting it within the main footage can be challenging, and novice producers often struggle to get both timing and content right. We present B-Script, a system that supports B-roll video editing via interactive transcripts. B-Script has a built-in recommendation system trained on expert-annotated data, recommending users B-roll position and content. To evaluate the system, we conducted a within-subject user study with 110 participants, and compared three interface variations: a timeline-based editor, a transcript-based editor, and a transcript-based editor with recommendations. Users found it easier and were faster to insert B-roll using the transcript-based interface, and they created more engaging videos when recommendations were provided.
Integrating B-roll is a widely used technique in film editing for documentaries, reality shows or news coverage. Conventions of cinematography suggest several guidelines about B-roll editing or making cuts between shots in general. For example, it is recommended to avoid cuts when the speaker is in the middle of talking or gesturing actively because such cuts disrupt the audio-visual flow @cite_5 . Instead, a good practice is to place the cuts where there are natural pauses in the flow. Sentence endings or eye blinks can be important cues for indicating these pauses @cite_22 . On the other hand, in practice, vlogs are usually created with low production value (often with a single smartphone) and do not necessarily follow the traditional principles of professional cinematography @cite_0 . For instance, in vlogs, it is common to have frequent jump cuts or rapid shot changes to make the footage faster pace. Instead of relying on a set of rules to determine the content and positions of B-Roll, we model our recommendation algorithm based on analysis of popular vlogs from YouTube () and a database of expert annotated video edits that we collect for this purpose ().
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