Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a storage medium storing a program and method for providing a template for media content generation. The program and method provide for receiving, from a first device of a first user, an indication of first user input setting properties to create a template for combining user-selected media with an audio track, the properties specifying the audio track, a sequence of media slots, a duration for each media slot, and predefined edits for applying to the media slots; causing display of a user interface on a second device of a second user, the user interface for assigning a respective video or photo to each media slot; and receiving, from the second device, a media content item generated based on second user input provided via the user interface, the second user input assigning the respective video or photo to each media slot.

Abstract: Various of the present embodiments convert structured data to a channel-based representation facilitating pattern recognition by a compression utility. The channels may include a key channel, a number channel, a type channel, a length channel, etc. These channels reflect the same information as the structured data, but reorganized based upon the structured data's hierarchic structure. The encoder and decoder may include rule sets specifying the relations between the channels to deconstruct/construct the JSON file. Memoization, length encoding, and type encoding extensions may also be applied as part of the encoding/decoding process to further improve compression.

Abstract: Various of the present embodiments convert structured data to a channel-based representation facilitating pattern recognition by a compression utility. The channels may include a key channel, a number channel, a type channel, a length channel, etc. These channels reflect the same information as the structured data, but reorganized based upon the structured data's hierarchic structure. The encoder and decoder may include rule sets specifying the relations between the channels to deconstruct/construct the JSON file. Memoization, length encoding, and type encoding extensions may also be applied as part of the encoding/decoding process to further improve compression.