NOVEL MEDIA FILE FOR MULTI-PLATFORM NON-LINEAR VIDEO EDITING SYSTEMS
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Abstract
A system and method for ingesting (capturing) digital video media files for storage on a Linux® platform-based computing environment that creates Quicktime Reference-compatible Files in the Linux® environment. Quicktime Reference-compatible Files are created such that they are labeled as not created by Avid'"'"'s codec, but rather, by a native Quicktime codec. Then, via the system and method of the invention, at the time the Quicktime Reference-compatible Files are created in the Linux® environment, the system and method automatically captures the Avid file and automatically creates hard-links to those files so that the QuickTime Reference-compatible Files refer to the hard links rather than to the original Avid files. That is, rather than using the direct reference to the media files, a hard link is created to provide a second reference to them. In this manner, via said hard links (e.g., object reference), a user is permitted indirect access to all digital audio and video data that is stored in the directory on the storage device, while not requiring access to the original Avid media files. Advantageously, there is no need to convert Avid-formatted files to the Quicktime format.
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29 Claims
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10. A computer system for creating a reference file, the system comprising:
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a memory and a processor in communication with the memory; one or more digital media files having multi-media content, the one or more digital media files being wrapped using a proprietary encoder; an automatically created first folder for storing a reference file associated with one or more digital media files; an automatically created hard link to each of the one or more digital media files; and an automatically created reference file containing embedded information, the embedded information including a location of each of the one or more hard links; wherein the reference file refers to the one or more hard links and is not labeled as being created by the proprietary encoder, thereby enabling applications that are not compatible with the wrapped format of the one or more digital media files to access the multi-media content of the one or more digital media files. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A method, implemented by a processor in communication with a memory, for creating a universally accessible reference file, the method comprising:
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automatically creating, at a pre-determined hierarchy of a directory structure, a first folder for storing reference files associated with one or more digital media files, the one or more digital media files having multi-media content and being wrapped using a proprietary encoder; automatically obtaining a location of each of the one or more digital media files; automatically traversing the one or more digital media files to obtain additional information from the one or more digital media files; and
,automatically creating a reference file and embedding the obtained location and the additional information in the reference file; wherein the reference file is not labeled as being created by the proprietary encoder, thereby enabling applications that are not compatible with the wrapped format of the one or more digital media files to access the multi-media content of the one or more digital media files. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A computer-readable storage medium with an executable program stored thereon, wherein the program contains instructions for implementation by a computer to perform the following steps:
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automatically creating, at a pre-determined hierarchy of a directory structure, a first folder for storing reference files associated with one or more digital media files, the one or more digital media files having multi-media content and being wrapped using a proprietary encoder; automatically obtaining a location of each of the one or more digital media files; automatically traversing the one or more digital media files to obtain additional information from the one or more digital media files; and
,automatically creating a reference file and embedding the obtained location and the additional information in the reference file; wherein the reference file is not labeled as being created by the proprietary encoder, thereby enabling applications that are not compatible with the wrapped format of the one or more digital media files to access the multi-media content of the one or more digital media files. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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