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Method and apparatus for video editing with video clip representations displayed along a time line

  • US 5,999,173 A
  • Filed: 04/03/1992
  • Issued: 12/07/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/03/1992
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for editing a video program which includes a sequence of clips and transitions between the clips, the method comprising the steps of:

  • (a) displaying a time line;

    (b) generating a display representing the video program clips by digitizing and thereafter simultaneously displaying a frame from each of a plurality of the digitized clips on tracks along and in a direct time relationship to the time line the width of the displayed frames representing the time duration of the clip represented by that frame, together with transition icons, the transition icons representing the transitions between the plurality of the digitized clips;

    (c) editing the video program by modifying the display.

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