US 10,372,306 B2 · Organized timeline

Abstract

Some embodiments of the invention provide a GUI for a media editing application that provides visual cues (e.g., colors and/or lane sets) for media clips that are assigned different tags (or roles) in a media presentation. The GUI of the media application of some embodiments displays media clips of a composite media presentation, in which at least some of the media clips are associated with tags. The GUI also provides GUI controls for associating media clips associated with different tags with different colors and for displaying the media clips based on the clips' associated color. In some embodiments, the GUI includes a tool for arranging clips into groups based on assigned tags. The tool of some embodiments, upon selection, defines a set of lanes for each tag and displays any anchored clip that is associated with a tag in the set of lanes associated with the tag.

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A non-transitory machine readable medium storing a media editing application for execution by at least one processing unit, the media editing application comprising a graphical user interface (GUI), the GUI comprising:

a composite display area for displaying a plurality of media clips for compositing into a composite media presentation, each media clip in at least a set of the plurality of media clips being associated with at least one tag of a plurality of tags;
and
a set of GUI controls for associating each tag of the plurality of tags with a corresponding color and for displaying the plurality of media clips in the composite display area based on each clips' associated color, the set of GUI controls comprising:
a subset of GUI controls that defines how the plurality of media clips are vertically positioned with respect to each other in the composite display area based on an ordered list of selectable tags,
wherein vertical positioning of the plurality of media clips in the composite display area depends on a tag order defined in the ordered list.

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A method for providing a media editing application comprising a graphical user interface (GUI), the method comprising:

providing a composite display area for displaying a plurality of media clips for compositing into a composite media presentation, each media clip being associated with at least one tag of a plurality of tags, each tag in the plurality of tags being indicative of a role for an associated media clip in the composite media presentation;
providing a set of GUI controls for:
associating each tag of the plurality of tags with a corresponding color;
and
defining how the plurality of media clips are vertically positioned with respect to each other in the composite display area based on an ordered list of selectable tags;
and
displaying representations of the media clips in the composite display area, wherein each representation is displayed using a color corresponding to the at least one tag associated with a media clip being represented, and wherein vertical positioning of the plurality of media clips in the composite display area depends on a tag order defined in the ordered list.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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