systems and methods to enable real - time and near real - time storyboarding on the world wide web in addition to a graphical user interface for video parsing and browsing the of the storyboard . specifically , storyboarding can be accomplished on the world wide web by parsing an input video into representative or key frames . these frames then can be posted to a web document , or the like , for subsequent viewing by a user . this allows a video to be distilled down to the essential frames thus eliminating storage and bandwidth problems as well as eliminating the need for a user to view the entirety of the video . furthermore , the graphical user interface allows a user to visually interact with an input video signal to determine the key or representative frames , or to retrieve video segments associated with already determined key frames . furthermore , the interface allows manipulation of these frames including , but not limited to , playing of the entire segment represented by that key or significant frame as well as actual determining of the cuts between significant segments .