Modified media presentation during scrubbing

A machine readable storage device bearing instructions executable by one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

• displaying, within a user interface in a digital media system, a thumbnail representing a portion of a media clip, wherein the portion has associated video and audio portions;
• receiving user input comprising cursor movement data indicating a cursor movement over the thumbnail;
• determining, from the cursor movement data, a cursor velocity and correlating a play speed at which the portion of the media clip is to be played to the cursor velocity;
• determining whether the cursor velocity exceeds a predetermined threshold that relates to a maximum play speed, wherein the predetermined threshold is greater than a minimum threshold that relates to a minimum play speed;
• and
• selectively disabling playing the video portion or the audio portion, or both, based on a determination that the cursor velocity exceeds the predetermined threshold.

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• displaying, within a user interface in a digital media system, a thumbnail representing a portion of a media clip, wherein the thumbnail includes a plurality of positions corresponding to a plurality of frames that collectively represents the portion of the media clip, wherein each frame is associated with a corresponding video portion and a corresponding audio portion, and wherein either or both of the corresponding video portion and the corresponding audio portion of a frame is playable in response to input to play back the frame;
• detecting input to play back the plurality of frames, the input comprising a movement of a cursor over the thumbnail at a speed, wherein, as the cursor moves over adjacent positions of the plurality of positions in the thumbnail, successive frames of the plurality of frames that correspond to the adjacent positions are played back;
• comparing the speed at which the cursor moves over the thumbnail with a threshold play speed, wherein the threshold play speed is greater than a minimum play speed;
• and
• based on a determination that the speed at which the cursor moves over the thumbnail exceeds the threshold play speed, disabling a playing back of either a video portion that corresponds to the frame of the successive frame or a playing back of the audio portion that corresponds to the frame of the successive frame, or both.