VIDEO PREVIEWING METHOD AND APPARATUS

A video method and system for providing a viewer an automatically customized version of a video responsive to an editor's determination of the suitability of possibly unsuitable segments and the viewer's video content preferences. The video previewing system comprising a video and a segment map defining a plurality of video segments of a video, the plurality of video segments comprising possibly unsuitable video segments. The system permits establishing a viewer's video content preferences; an editor to determine the suitability for viewing by the viewer of the possibly unsuitable video segments; automatically selects video segments from the plurality of video segments responsive to the application of the suitability determination to the video segment map; and retrieves and transmits the selected video segments as a continuous and suitable version of the video.