Abstract: A video is generated from an audio file by transcribing the audio file into texts and breaking the audio file into one or more segments or shots used as scenes. A media piece is then matched to each shot; the media pieces are properly contextualized based on the text or attributes of the audio associated with the shot, the overall script or theme, an intended audience, or other factors. The resulting video is then created by stitching the media pieces together.

Abstract: File systems which provide several different and improved locking capabilities. An application on a client workstation communicates through a client driver to a server which interfaces with a metadata database, which contains locking information about the files. Applications perform as normal. The client driver provides lock and unlock requests to the server when a write lock or a read with intent to write lock is required. If only a read lock is considered appropriate, the client driver does not provide a lock request. The server transparently performs read operations and read locking using the metadata database without specific requests from the client driver. When a read with intent to write or write lock is required, the lock ownership is placed with a given expiration time. When the time expires the lock is not automatically released but remains with the particular requesting client driver until another client driver requests it.

Abstract: A network computer system and method are disclosed that provides access to a large number of concurrent clients without undesirable processor lag and delays. The system prepares client objects in advance of client access requests and can dynamically create new client objects over a distributed system when needed. Buffering is provided to avoid processor interrupts.