Method of creating a media composition and apparatus therefore

A method of creating a final media composition using a media composition program residing on a first electronic device comprising a first display device, a first memory device, and first user input means, the method comprising:

• a) receiving, on the first electronic device, a plurality of low resolution media streams of high resolution media clip files from one or more databases, the high resolution media clip files stored on the one or more databases;
• b) displaying, in the first display device, visual indicia of each of the low resolution media streams being received by the first electronic device;
• c) activating one or more of the low resolution media streams being received by the first electronic device in response to user input via the first user input means;
• d) for each low resolution media stream that is activated in step c), recording a low resolution media clip segment of that low resolution media stream in an interim media composition that resides on the first memory device;
• e) for each low resolution media clip segment recorded in the interim media composition, receiving on the first electronic device a high resolution media clip segment from the one or more databases that corresponds to that low resolution media clip segment;
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• f) automatically replacing the low resolution media clip segments in the interim media composition with the high resolution media clip segments to create the final media composition comprising the high resolution media clip segments.

A method of creating a video composition comprising:

• a) displaying, in a first display device of a first portable electronic device, a first camera view perceived by a first camera lens of the first portable electronic device;
• b) transmitting, to the first portable electronic device, a plurality of low resolution video streams of high resolution video clips previously stored in one or more databases;
• c) displaying, in the first display device of the first electronic device, the low resolution video streams, wherein the first camera view and the low resolution video streams are simultaneously displayed in the first display device;
• d) recording, on the first memory device of the first portable electronic device, a low resolution video clip for each of the low resolution video streams activated by a user as part of a video composition;
• e) for each low resolution video clip recorded on the first memory device of the first portable electronic device, transmitting corresponding ones of the high resolution clips from the one or more databases to the first portable electronic device;
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• f) automatically replacing the low resolution video clips in the video composition recorded on the first memory device of the first portable electronic device with the high resolution video clips.