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DIRECT: Video Mashup Creation via Hierarchical Multi-Agent Planning and Intent-Guided Editing

Ke Li, Maoliang Li, Jialiang Chen, Jiayu Chen, Zihao Zheng, Shaoqi Wang, Xiang Chen

arxiv Score 17.8

Published 2026-04-06 · First seen 2026-04-07

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Video mashup creation represents a complex video editing paradigm that recomposes existing footage to craft engaging audio-visual experiences, demanding intricate orchestration across semantic, visual, and auditory dimensions and multiple levels. However, existing automated editing frameworks often overlook the cross-level multimodal orchestration to achieve professional-grade fluidity, resulting in disjointed sequences with abrupt visual transitions and musical misalignment. To address this, we formulate video mashup creation as a Multimodal Coherency Satisfaction Problem (MMCSP) and propose the DIRECT framework. Simulating a professional production pipeline, our hierarchical multi-agent framework decomposes the challenge into three cascade levels: the Screenwriter for source-aware global structural anchoring, the Director for instantiating adaptive editing intent and guidance, and the Editor for intent-guided shot sequence editing with fine-grained optimization. We further introduce Mashup-Bench, a comprehensive benchmark with tailored metrics for visual continuity and auditory alignment. Extensive experiments demonstrate that DIRECT significantly outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in both objective metrics and human subjective evaluation. Project page and code: https://github.com/AK-DREAM/DIRECT

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@article{li2026direct,
  title = {DIRECT: Video Mashup Creation via Hierarchical Multi-Agent Planning and Intent-Guided Editing},
  author = {Ke Li and Maoliang Li and Jialiang Chen and Jiayu Chen and Zihao Zheng and Shaoqi Wang and Xiang Chen},
  year = {2026},
  abstract = {Video mashup creation represents a complex video editing paradigm that recomposes existing footage to craft engaging audio-visual experiences, demanding intricate orchestration across semantic, visual, and auditory dimensions and multiple levels. However, existing automated editing frameworks often overlook the cross-level multimodal orchestration to achieve professional-grade fluidity, resulting in disjointed sequences with abrupt visual transitions and musical misalignment. To address this, we},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.04875},
  keywords = {cs.CV, cs.AI, cs.MM},
  eprint = {2604.04875},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
}

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