US 9,070,415 B2Granted

Collaborative production asset management

AssigneeQwire Holding, LLC

InventorsLeigh B. Roberts, Jr., Jonathan Louis Ehrlich, Scott Freiman

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Abstract

In an approach, a method of spotting music for a motion picture comprises: receiving music editor (MXE) cue related data defining a plurality of cues each having a start timecode value and an end timecode value; based on the MXE data, creating and storing an MXE timecode path, a composer (CMP) timecode path, and a cue sheet timecode path; copying one or more of the MXE cue related data to CMP cues in the CMP timecode path in a CMP spotting dataset; receiving one or more changes to the CMP cues without also modifying the MXE cue related data; applying an editing lock to the CMP cues; auto-populating the CMP cues to cue sheet cues in the cue sheet timecode path; receiving one or more changes to the cue sheet cues without also modifying the CMP cues; finalizing and distributing a cue sheet based on the cue sheet cues; wherein the method is performed by one or more special-purpose computing devices.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

receiving, by a production manager computer, at a time before closing a media production, cue metadata defining a plurality of music cues for the media production, wherein a first part of the cue metadata is received from a first computer and a second part of the cue metadata is received from a second computer that is different than the first computer, wherein the first part of the cue metadata includes a first plurality of timecodes for the plurality of music cues and the second part of the cue metadata includes a second plurality of timecodes for the plurality of music cues, wherein the first part of the cue metadata is received by the first computer via a first graphical user interface displayed by the first computer and the second part of the cue metadata is received by the second computer via a second graphical user interface displayed by the second computer;
storing, by the production manager computer, one or more records in a database based on the cue metadata, wherein the database stores both the first plurality of timecodes for the plurality of music cues and the second plurality of timecodes for the plurality of music cues;
generating, by the production manager computer, a cue data set based on the one or more records;
causing, by the production manager computer, display of the cue data set;
wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.

2 more elements

A non-transitory computer-readable storage media storing one or more instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform steps comprising:

receiving, by a production manager computer, at a time before closing a media production, cue metadata defining a plurality of music cues for the media production, wherein a first part of the cue metadata is received from a first computer and a second part of the cue metadata is received from a second computer that is different than the first computer, wherein the first part of the cue metadata includes a first plurality of timecodes for the plurality of music cues and the second part of the cue metadata includes a second plurality of timecodes for the plurality of music cues, wherein the first part of the cue metadata is received by the first computer via a first graphical user interface displayed by the first computer and the second part of the cue metadata is received by the second computer via a second graphical user interface displayed by the second computer;
storing, by the production manager computer, one or more records in a database based on the cue metadata, wherein the database stores both the first plurality of timecodes for the plurality of music cues and the second plurality of timecodes for the plurality of music cues;
generating, by the production manager computer, a cue data set based on the one or more records;
generating, by the production manager computer, a cue data set based on the one or more records;
causing, by the production manager computer, display of the cue data set.

2 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/335,794Filed 18 Jul 2014 · continuation
Priority: 16 May 2012
Published: US 2014/0233918 A16 Nov 2014
Granted: 30 Jun 2015
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

G11B 27/323
Used signal is digitally coded: time code signal, e.g. on a cue track as SMPTE- or EBU-time code
G11B 27/029
Electronic editing of analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals: insert-editing
G11B 27/10
Editing; Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Monitoring; Measuring tape travel: indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising;…
G11B 27/105
Programmed access in sequence to addressed parts of tracks of operating record carriers: of operating discs

Family

Application61/648,035Us provisional application · filed 16 May 2012
Application13/896,273Parent of this continuation · filed 16 May 2013
PCT/US2013/041469Parent of this continuation · filed 16 May 2013
Application13/931,532Parent of this continuation · filed 28 Jun 2013
US 2014/0328571 A1Pre-grant publication · published 6 Nov 2014
US 8,867,905 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2014/0233918 A1Published application
US 9,070,415 B2This patent

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