Systems and methods for automating video editing

A computer implemented method for automatic video processing, the method comprising:

• generating, by at least one processor, a user interface;
• accepting, via the user interface, a first user sourced video as input;
• display, by the at least one processor, editing operations within the user interface, including an act of displaying at least one automatic editing function, in association with a display of the first user source video;
• analyzing video segments of the first user sourced video input, the video segments each having a duration;
• transforming, by the at least one processor, the video segments into a semantic embedding space defining multiple dimensions and comprising numerical representation of the respective video segments in the multiple dimensioned space, responsive to execution of the at least one automatic editing function;
• classifying, by the at least one processor, the transformed video segments into at least one of contextual categories or spatial layout categories based on determining similarity between classified video segments, the determination of the similarity including comparison of the numerical representation to numerical representations of the classified video segments;
• editing, by the at least one processor, automatically at least one video segment of the first user sourced video input, the editing including at least one of altering the duration of the at least one video segment or introducing at least one visual effect into the at least one video segment;
• linking or interleaving, by the at least one processor, a set of video segments including the edited at least one video segment based at least in part on the contextual or spatial layout categories to generate a sequencing of video;
• and
• generating, by the at least one processor, a rough-cut video output including the sequencing of video.