Tool for Tracking Versions of Media Sections in a Composite Presentation

• US 20100281384A1
• Filed: 01/15/2010
• Published: 11/04/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Vasta, Patrick, Lyons, Charles, Diener, Lisa, Roenning, Jeff
• Granted Patent: US 8,881,013 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/723
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• 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: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]

Abstract

A computer readable medium storing a media editing application for creating media presentations is described. The application includes a graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI has (1) a composite display area for displaying graphical representations of a set of media clips that are part of the composite presentation, (2) a navigation tool including several selectable navigation markers associated with several navigable locations in the composite presentation, and (3) a version management feature for (a) indicating whether each location has been modified, (b) providing an option to create a new version of each location, and (c) providing access to previously-saved versions of each location.

Claims

1. A computer readable medium storing a media editing application for creating composite media presentations, said application comprising a graphical user interface (GUI), said GUI comprising:

a) a composite display area for displaying graphical representations of a set of media clips that are part of the media presentation;

b) a navigation tool comprising a plurality of selectable navigation markers associated with a plurality of locations of the composite media presentation, wherein the selection of a navigation marker causes the composite display area to present the location of the composite presentation that is associated with the selected navigation marker; and

c) a version management feature for i) indicating whether each location has been modified, ii) providing an option to create a new version of each location, and iii) providing access to previously-saved versions of each location.

2. The computer readable medium of claim 1, further comprising a collaboration tool for sending a particular version from a user of the media editing application to a collaborator on a composite media presentation.

3. The computer readable medium of claim 2, the collaboration tool further for receiving the particular version back from the collaborator.

4. The computer readable medium of claim 3, wherein the particular navigable location is locked when the particular version is sent to the collaborator, such that no changes may be made to the particular location until the particular version is returned back to the user from the collaborator.

5. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the version management feature comprises a drop-down menu for providing the option to create a new version and providing access to previously-saved versions.

6. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein a particular location that has been modified is indicated by displaying a graphical indicator in proximity to the selectable navigation marker corresponding to the particular location.

7. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the different locations that are specified by the different navigation markers are locations of different media clips in the composite presentation.

8. The computer readable medium of claim 7, wherein each particular navigation marker is associated with a particular media clip at a particular location in the composite presentation, and the particular navigation marker is associated with the particular location through the navigation marker'"'"'s association with the particular media clip.

9. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the different locations that are specified by the different navigation markers are locations within the composite presentation that are associated with different sets of media clips in the composite presentation.

10. A method of providing a media-editing application for creating a multimedia presentation, the method comprising:

providing a composite display area for displaying graphical representations of a set of media clips that are part of the media presentation;

providing a navigation tool comprising a plurality of selectable navigation markers associated with a plurality of locations of the composite media presentation, wherein the selection of a navigation marker causes the composite display area to present the location of the composite presentation that is associated with the selected navigation marker; and

providing a version management feature for providing access to previously-saved versions of each location.

11. The method of claim 10, the version management tool further for indicating whether each location has been modified and providing an option to create a new version of each location.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein any modified version is automatically saved as a temporary version.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the graphical representations of the media clips in the composite display area span along a timeline and the locations comprise sections along the timeline.

14. The method of claim 10, further comprising providing a collaboration tool for sending a particular version to a collaborator on a composite media presentation.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the particular navigable location is locked when the particular version is sent to the collaborator, such that no changes may be made to the particular location until the particular version is returned back from the collaborator.

16. A computer readable medium storing a computer program for execution by at least one processor, the computer program comprising sets of instructions for:

displaying a plurality of graphical representations of media clips along a timeline for a composite media presentation in a composite display area of a media-editing application;

displaying a plurality of selectable navigation markers associated with a plurality of navigable locations in the composite media presentation, each navigation marker associated with at least one version of a navigable location; and

receiving user input to select a particular navigation marker, wherein the selection of a navigation marker causes a version management feature to present a list of previously-saved versions of the location associated with the particular navigation marker.

17. The computer readable medium of claim 16 further comprising sets of instructions for receiving user input to select a particular version from the list of previously-saved versions, wherein the selection of a particular previously-saved version causes the composite display area to present the particular previously-saved version.

18. The computer readable medium of claim 16 further comprising sets of instructions for displaying a collaboration tool for sending a particular version to a collaborator on a composite media presentation.

19. The computer readable medium of claim, wherein the collaboration tool is further for receiving the particular version back from the collaborator.

20. The computer readable medium of claim 19 further comprising sets of instructions for displaying the collaboration tool when the particular version is received back from the collaborator.