System for automated generation of media

A method of creating audiovisual media programming from a plurality of stored audiovisual media elements, comprising the steps of:

• automatically selecting by a processor from a database containing information concerning said audiovisual media elements a plurality of said audiovisual media elements and automatically designating a temporal sequence for said selected audiovisual media elements, the media elements being selected for each position in the template in accordance with correspondence between definitions associated with each position and the information in the database;
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• automatically selecting automatically by the processor transitions for each of said audiovisual media elements to create a file of element identifiers and transition information for creation of media programming.

A system for creating audiovisual programming from a plurality of stored audiovisual media elements, comprising:

• means including a processor for automatically selecting from a database containing information concerning said audiovisual media elements a plurality of said audiovisual media elements and automatically designating a temporal sequence for said selected audiovisual media elements, the selecting and designating employing a template defining a sequence of temporal positions for the media elements, the media elements being selected for each position in the template in accordance with correspondence between definitions associated with each position and the information in the database;
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• means including a processor for selecting automatically transitions for each of said audiovisual media elements.