Media editing
AssigneeSony United Kingdom Limited
InventorDerek Slone
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Abstract
A media editing apparatus for editing media items together to form a media product comprises means for displaying at least two representations of the media items, each representation relating to media items lying within a respective time period with respect to the media product; a user control for adjusting the time period of any one of the at least two representations; and means, responsive to a user adjustment of the time period for a current representation, for adjusting the respective time periods of the other representations so that the time periods for the other representations at least encompass the user-adjusted time period for the current representation.
Claims10
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for storing a computer program for organizing an interactive multi-path media, the program comprising:
- a menu design module adapted to receive digital data;
- a display module to simultaneously display at least two representations of the digital data, each representation relating to said digital data lying within a respective time period with respect to a media product comprising said digital data;
- a timeline editor module for adjusting said time period of each of said at least two representations;
- logic, responsive to a user adjustment of said time period for a current representation, for enabling and disabling a sympathy feature,
- wherein said sympathy feature enablement adjusts the respective time period of said other representation to at least encompass said user adjusted time period, and
- wherein said sympathy disablement disables an adjustment of the respective time period of said other representation based on a user adjustment of a view of said current representation;
- an editing module adapted to edit the digital data;
- a previewing module adapted to generate a preview, the preview including edited digital data and clip detail data;
- a storage module adapted to store the clip detail data and the edited digital data,
- wherein interactive path media is organized as a function of the edited digital data and clip detail data.
A media editing apparatus for editing media items together to form a media product, the apparatus comprising:
- a menu designer adapted to receive digital data;
- a display to simultaneously display at least two representations of the digital data, each representation relating to said digital data lying within a respective time period with respect to a media product comprising said digital data;
- a timeline editor for adjusting said time period of each of said at least two representations;
- logic, responsive to a user adjustment of said time period for a current representation, for enabling and disabling a sympathy feature,
- wherein said sympathy feature enablement adjusts the respective time period of said other representation to at least encompass said user adjusted time period, and
- wherein said sympathy disablement disables an adjustment of the respective time period of said other representation based on a user adjustment of a view of said current representation;
- a digital data editor for editing the digital data;
- a previewing generator adapted to generate a preview, the preview including edited digital data and clip detail data;
- a computer-readable storage medium adapted to store the clip detail data and the edited digital data;
- wherein interactive path media is organized as a function of the edited digital data and clip detail data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.