Graphical user interface for a motion video planning and editing system for a computer

• US 20040071441A1
• Filed: 09/29/2003
• Published: 04/15/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/1996
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Brett D. Granger, Darell N. Leblanc, Ivan M. Cavero-Belaunde, Kevin J. Foreman
• Original Assignee: Brett D. Granger, Darell N. Leblanc, Ivan M. Cavero-Belaunde, Kevin J. Foreman
• Inventors: LeBlanc, Darell N., Granger, Brett D., Foreman, Kevin J., Cavero-Belaunde, Ivan M.
• Application Number:
  US10/673,902
• Publication Number:
  US 20040071441A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/52
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/41 Flat as opposed to hierarchical combination, e.g. library of tapes or discs, CD changer, or groups of record carriers that together store one title
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/90 Tape-like record carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/36 Monitoring, i.e. supervising the progress of recording or reproducing for digital recording G11B20/00 and s.gr.; for monitoring, testing or measuring of TV recorders of the type covered by H04N5/76 and subgroups, see H04N17/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/00 Methods or arrangements for coding, decoding, compressing or decompressing digital video signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/40 using video transcoding, i.e. partial or full decoding of a coded input stream followed by re-encoding of the decoded output stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/42 characterised by implementation details or hardware specially adapted for video compression or decompression, e.g. dedicated software implementation H04N19/635 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/61 in combination with predictive coding
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/85 using pre-processing or post-processing specially adapted for video compression

Abstract

A graphical user interface for a computer-assisted motion video editing system directs a user through the process of editing a video program. The graphical user interface may also enables a user to plan a video program. Alternatively selectable interfaces within a single window interface, each of which provide a group of planning, capturing, editing, and recording functions can provide such an interface for producing a video program. Other simplifications to the user interface can be provided to assist in editing, such as by maintaining a video display window for displaying the edited video program at a fixed position for all available editing operations. Additionally, video information can be captured directly into a timeline representation of a video program, rather than a bin. Using a storyboard tied to the capturing process, a user is directed through the process of collecting and capturing the video clips to be used in the video program.

Claims

1. A computer program product, comprising:

a computer readable medium storing computer program instructions for a computer program that facilitates editing of a motion picture using motion video data on a computer, wherein the computer program, when executed by a computer provides a graphical user interface, comprising;

a viewer window on a display for the computer for viewing motion video data; and

a timeline region on the display and nonoverlapping with the viewer window for displaying a timeline representing selections of the motion video data in a temporal order that specifies the motion picture;

wherein each selection of the motion video data is represented by a clip object displayed on the timeline and having a size and a position on the timeline corresponding to a position of the selection in the motion picture being edited and a duration of the selection, and wherein each clip object includes trim handles for the user to select an edge of the clip object to perform a trim operation by dragging the edge of the clip object to a desired trim point, thereby adjusting the size of the clip object and the duration of the corresponding selection of motion video data.

2. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the trim operation is a trim right operation that removes frames from an incoming edge of a clip.

3. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the trim operation is a trim right operation that adds frames to an outgoing edge of a clip.

4. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the trim operation is a trim left operation that adds frames to an incoming edge of a clip.

5. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the trim operation is a trim left operation that removes frames from an outgoing edge of a clip.

6. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein each clip object has a start point and a stop point in the selection of motion video data and wherein the graphical user interface enforces boundary conditions on the trim operation.

7. The computer program product of claim 6, wherein the boundary conditions includes a requirement that the start point precede the stop point in the selection of motion video

8. The computer program product of claim 6, wherein the boundary conditions include a requirement that the start point and the stop point are separated by at least one frame.

9. The computer program product of claim 6, wherein the boundary conditions include a requirement that the start point and the stop point are within the selection of motion video data available in a corresponding data file for storing the selection of motion video data.

10. A graphical user interface for computer-based editing of video using a timeline wherein the timeline includes representations of clips of video, wherein each clip has a duration on the timeline, and wherein the graphical user interface includes trim handles for the user to select an edge of a clip and to perform a trim operation by dragging the edge of the clip to a desired trim point.

11. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the trim operation is a trim right operation that removes frames from an incoming edge of a clip.

12. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the trim operation is a trim right operation that adds frames to an outgoing edge of a clip.

13. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the trim operation is a trim left operation that adds frames to an incoming edge of a clip.

14. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the trim operation is a trim left operation that removes frames from an outgoing edge of a clip.

15. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein each clip object has a start point and a stop point in the selection of motion video data and wherein the graphical user interface enforces boundary conditions on the trim operation.

16. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the boundary conditions includes a requirement that the start point precede the stop point in the selection of motion video

17. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the boundary conditions include a requirement that the start point and the stop point are separated by at least one frame.

18. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the boundary conditions include a requirement that the start point and the stop point are within the selection of motion video data available in a corresponding data file for storing the selection of motion video data.