Importing Media Content

• US 20140115460A1
• Filed: 10/19/2012
• Published: 04/24/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/19/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Angquist, Nils, Pendergast, Colleen M., Yamamoto, Satoshi, Perkins, Sean
• Application Number:
  US13/656,313
• Publication Number:
  US 20140115460A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/716
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/168 Details of user interfaces specifically adapted to file systems, e.g. browsing and visualisation, 2d or 3d GUIs query results presentation G06F16/156
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/44 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]

Abstract

Among other things, a method includes displaying, in a user interface of a media authoring application, an interface enabling a user of the media authoring application to import media content from any media source supported by the media authoring application, wherein at least one of the media sources is a media capture device and at least one of the media sources is a portion of a file system of a storage device, the interface including a pane displaying a list of media sources currently available to the media authoring application, a pane displaying a list of media content files available at a selected media source, and a pane displaying at least a portion of a selected media content file.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

displaying, in a user interface of a media authoring application, an interface enabling a user of the media authoring application to import media content from any media source supported by the media authoring application, wherein at least one of the media sources is a media capture device and at least one of the media sources is a portion of a file system of a storage device, the interface including

a pane displaying a list of media sources currently available to the media authoring application,

a pane displaying a list of media content files available at a selected media source, and

a pane displaying at least a portion of a selected media content file.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the portion of the selected media content file is a single frame of a video clip.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the portion of the selected media content file is a series of frames of a video clip.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the pane displaying the list of media content files displays metadata representing media characteristics of at least some of the media content files.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the media characteristics of at least some of the media content files are derived from the content of the media content files.

6. The method of claim 1, comprising:

receiving, from a user of the media authoring application, a selection of a portion of a file system of a storage device; and

determining, based on characteristics of data files of the portion of the file system, if the portion of the file system contains media content supported by the media authoring application.

7. The method of claim 1 in which at least some of the media sources supported by the media authoring application are each associated with configuration data used by the media authoring application to access the respective media source.

8. A computer readable storage device encoded with instructions that, when executed by a computer system, cause a computer system to carry out operations comprising:

displaying, in a user interface of a media authoring application, an interface enabling a user of the media authoring application to import media content from any media source supported by the media authoring application, wherein at least one of the media sources is a media capture device and at least one of the media sources is a portion of a file system of a storage device, the interface including

a pane displaying a list of media sources currently available to the media authoring application,

a pane displaying a list of media content files available at a selected media source, and

a pane displaying at least a portion of a selected media content file.

9. The computer readable storage device of claim 8, wherein the portion of the selected media content file is a single frame of a video clip.

10. The computer readable storage device of claim 8, wherein the portion of the selected media content file is a series of frames of a video clip.

11. The computer readable storage device of claim 8, wherein the pane displaying the list of media content files displays metadata representing media characteristics of at least some of the media content files.

12. The computer readable storage device of claim 11, wherein the media characteristics of at least some of the media content files are derived from the content of the media content files.

13. The computer readable storage device of claim 8, comprising:

receiving, from a user of the media authoring application, a selection of a portion of a file system of a storage device; and

determining, based on characteristics of data files of the portion of the file system, if the portion of the file system contains media content supported by the media authoring application.

14. The computer readable storage device of claim 8 in which at least some of the media sources supported by the media authoring application are each associated with configuration data used by the media authoring application to access the respective media source.

15. A system comprising:

a media capture device;

a storage device; and

a computer system configured to execute a media authoring application,

the media authoring application configured to display an interface enabling a user of the media authoring application to import media content from any media source supported by the media authoring application, wherein at least one of the media sources is the media capture device and at least one of the media sources is a portion of a file system of the storage device, the interface including

a pane displaying a list of media sources currently available to the media authoring application,

a pane displaying a list of media content files available at a selected media source, and

a pane displaying at least a portion of a selected media content file.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the portion of the selected media content file is a single frame of a video clip.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein the portion of the selected media content file is a series of frames of a video clip.

18. The system of claim 15, wherein the pane displaying the list of media content files displays metadata representing media characteristics of at least some of the media content files.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the media characteristics of at least some of the media content files are derived from the content of the media content files.

20. The system of claim 15, comprising:

receiving, from a user of the media authoring application, a selection of a portion of a file system of a storage device; and

determining, based on characteristics of data files of the portion of the file system, if the portion of the file system contains media content supported by the media authoring application.

21. The system of claim 15 in which at least some of the media sources supported by the media authoring application are each associated with configuration data used by the media authoring application to access the respective media source.