The work of Prof. Henry Lieberman and colleagues Glorianna Davenport and Edward Shen at the MIT Media Lab shows how to tag video clips and compose a narrative related to specific clips selected according to a search. This work, which started and was documented prior to the application filing date, seems relevant to at least part of what is claimed.

This paper describes an interactive and collaborative video editor

Video editing software.

"Silent Steel" was a 4 CD game for PCs in the mid-90s where viewers had to make selections at certain points. Depending on the selection, a different pre-recorded video segment would play.