Time sheet for real time video production system and method
First Claim
1. A method for controlling a production studio for producing a television show, the method comprising:
- sending control commands to a plurality of video production devices from a processing unit;
associating one or more icons representing video production device control buttons with one or more control commands;
creating, via a hierarchical user interface, a transition macro by placing one or more of said icons on a time sheet; and
executing, via said hierarchical user interface, said transition macro to control said plurality of video production devices during the television show.
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Abstract
An integrated, fully automated video production system that provides a video director with total control over all of the video production devices used in producing a show via a hierarchical time sheet. The video production system provides an automation capability that allows the video director to pre-produce a show, review the show in advance of “air time,” and then, with a touch of a button, produce the live show. In one embodiment, the invention provides a video production system having a processing unit in communication with one or more of the video production devices mentioned above. According to an embodiment, the video director pre-produces the show, defines a set of video production commands or instructions (hereafter “transition macro”) to be executed by the processing unit, and then, by activating a control button displayed by the processing unit, the video director instructs the processing unit to execute the transition macro via the hierarchical time sheet. The hierarchical time sheet includes a plurality of control lines and a possible plurality of hierarchical group layers. Each of the control lines corresponds to a video production device in a preferred embodiment. The video director creates a transition macro by defining one or more hierarchical group layer GUIs, where the group layer GUIs may include an object group layer GUI, a TME group layer GUI, a page group layer GUI, a story layer GUI and a show layer GUI. A show is the container for everything, which can be divided into various story layers. A story can contain multiple page layers, a page layer can contain multiple TME layers, and a TME layers can contain multiple object layers.
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22 Claims
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1. A method for controlling a production studio for producing a television show, the method comprising:
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sending control commands to a plurality of video production devices from a processing unit;
associating one or more icons representing video production device control buttons with one or more control commands;
creating, via a hierarchical user interface, a transition macro by placing one or more of said icons on a time sheet; and
executing, via said hierarchical user interface, said transition macro to control said plurality of video production devices during the television show. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A system for controlling a production studio for producing a television show, comprising:
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a processing unit that sends control commands to a plurality of video production devices;
one or more icons that represent video production device control buttons associated with one or more control commands; and
a hierarchical user interface that is used to create a transition macro by placing one or more of said icons on a time sheet, wherein said hierarchical user interface is also used to execute said transition macro to control said plurality of video production devices during the television show. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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