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Media editing system with improved effect management

US6161115A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateApr 12, 1996
Grant dateDec 12, 2000
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Expiry dateApr 12, 2016

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11B27/036
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A media editing system that includes storage for a machine-readable composition made up of scenes separated by transitions. The system can identify to an effect generator a scene in the composition and receive a modified version back from the effect generator. It can read machine-readable information associated with the modified version, and automatically reinsert the modified version into the machine-readable composition in synchronism with the position in the composition that the scene occupied, based on the machine-readable information. The system can also associate versions of the scene with the scene and display to a user a list of identifiers of the versions in response to user command that references a portion of a timeline, and respond to a selection command from the user to select one of the versions to be a default version for the composition.

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