Accelerated video editing

A computer program product comprising:

• one or more computer-readable storage devices and program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more tangible storage devices, the program instructions executable by a processor, the program instructions comprising:
• program instructions to receive a video;
• program instructions to segment, using a segmentation module, the video into a plurality of clips;
• program instructions to automatically compute, for each clip of the plurality of clips, corresponding metadata representing at least one attribute of the clip based on an analysis of contents of each clip of the plurality of clips;
• program instructions to generate a profile script based on the corresponding metadata, the profile script being generated to include one or more editing actions to be performed on a section of the video corresponding to at least one identified clip of the plurality of clips to generate an edited video;
• and
• program instructions to automatically edit, by an editing tool, the video based on the profile script to obtain the edited video.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium tangibly embodying a computer readable program code having computer readable instructions that, when executed, causes a processor to carry out a method comprising:

• receiving a video;
• segmenting, using a segmentation module, the video into a plurality of clips;
• automatically computing, for each clip of the plurality of clips, corresponding metadata representing at least one attribute of the clip based on an analysis of contents of each clip of the plurality of clips;
• generating a profile script based on the corresponding metadata, the profile script being generated to include one or more editing actions to be performed on a section of the video corresponding to at least one identified clip of the plurality of clips to generate an edited video;
• and
• automatically editing, the video based on the profile script to obtain the edited video.