Media clip management

• US 9,870,802 B2
• Filed: 04/28/2014
• Issued: 01/16/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 01/28/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Carson, Kenneth M., Angquist, Nils, Perkins, Sean C., Yamamoto, Satoshi, Demkin, Andrew S., Gornall, Simon J. D., Pendergast, Colleen
• Primary Examiner(s): Boccio, Vincent F
• Application Number:
  US14/264,001
• Publication Number:
  US 20140331139A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,359 Days
• Field of Search: 707803, 707805, 707667, 707913, 386278, 386281, 386282, 386290
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/113 Details of archiving lifecycle management in storage systems G06F3/0649; backup systems G06F11/1446
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/70 of video data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/00 Arrangements for program control, e.g. control units program control for peripheral devices G06F13/10
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/4092 Image resolution transcoding, e.g. by using client-server architectures
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/00 Editing; Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Monitoring; Measuring tape travel
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/031 Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/036 Insert-editing
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• 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: H04N 1/00822 Selecting or setting a particular reading mode, e.g. from amongst a plurality of modes, simplex or duplex, or high or low resolution
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/4172 Progressive encoding, i.e. by decomposition into high and low resolution components
• 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 21/472 End-user interface for requesting content, additional data or services; End-user interface for interacting with content, e.g. for content reservation or setting reminders, for requesting event notification, for manipulating displayed content end-user interfaces for retrieving video data from a database G06F16/739; network services for supporting unicast streaming H04L65/612
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47205 for manipulating displayed content, e.g. interacting with MPEG-4 objects, editing locally
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/212 Selecting different recording or reproducing modes, e.g. high or low resolution, field or frame
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/667 Camera operation mode switching, e.g. between still and video, sport and normal or high- and low-resolution modes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 25/42 by switching between different modes of operation using different resolutions or aspect ratios, e.g. switching between interlaced and non-interlaced mode
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/14 Picture signal circuitry for video frequency region cameras or camera modules comprising electronic image sensors, or control thereof H04N23/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/913 Multimedia

Abstract

Some embodiments provide a method for editing a composite presentation in a media-editing application. The method receives a media file to import into the media-editing application from an external device. The method creates a set of media clip data structures to represent the media file. At least one of the data structures references the media file on the external device. Before the media file is imported from the external device, the method uses the media clip data structure to edit a composite presentation with the media file. After the media file is imported from the external device, automatically modifying the data structure to refer to a copy of the media file on a local device.

Claims

1. A computer readable medium storing a media-editing application for execution by at least one processor of a device, the media-editing application comprising sets of instructions for:

for each of a plurality of media files imported into the media-editing application, creating a media clip that references the media file stored in a storage of the device;

receiving addition of a particular media clip, that references a particular media file, to a composite presentation and creating a new media clip within the composite presentation that references the particular media file;

at a later time after the addition, identifying that the new media clip no longer references the particular media file;

using a unique identifier stored in the new media clip to identify a new reference to one of (i) the particular media file and (ii) different copy of at least a portion of the particular media file; and

modifying the new media clip to include the new reference.

2. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the new media clip is a clip data structure that references a particular asset data structure, the asset data structure storing a reference to the particular media file.

3. The computer readable medium of claim 2, wherein the set of instructions for identifying that the new media clip no longer references the particular media file comprises a set of instructions for identifying that the particular media file referenced by the particular asset data structure is missing, wherein the set of instructions for using the unique identifier comprises a set of instructions for identifying a different asset data structure that stores a reference to a different copy of at least a portion of the particular media file, wherein the set of instructions for modifying the new media clip comprises a set of instructions for modifying the reference to the particular asset data structure to refer to the different asset data structure.

4. The computer readable medium of claim 2, wherein the set of instructions for identifying that the new media clip no longer references the particular media file comprises a set of instructions for identifying that the particular asset data structure is missing, wherein the set of instructions for using the unique identifier comprises a set of instructions for identifying a different asset data structure that stores a reference to one of (i) the particular media file and (ii) the different copy of at least a portion of the particular media file, wherein the set of instructions for modifying the new media clip comprises a set of instructions for modifying the reference to the particular asset to refer to the different asset.

5. The computer readable medium of claim 2, wherein the particular asset data structure is part of a particular event data structure that stores a plurality of asset data structures.

6. The computer readable medium of claim 5, wherein the set of instructions for identifying that the new media clip no longer references the particular media file comprises a set of instructions for identifying that the particular event data structure is missing, wherein the set of instructions for using the unique identifier comprises a set of instructions for identifying a different asset data structure that stores a reference to one of (i) the particular media file and (ii) the different copy of at least a portion of the particular media file within a different event data structure, wherein the set of instructions for modifying the new media clip comprises a set of instructions for modifying the reference to the particular asset data structure to refer to the different asset data structure in the different event data structure.

7. The computer readable medium of claim 6, wherein the composite presentation stores a modifiable prioritized list of events including the particular event, wherein the set of instructions for identifying the different asset data structure comprises a set of instructions for searching for an asset data structure with a similar identifier in the events in the prioritized list.

8. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the composite presentation comprises a set of media properties set by a user when the composite presentation is created.

9. For a media-editing application a method for identifying missing media files, the method comprising:

for each of a plurality of media files imported into the media-editing application, creating a media clip that references the media file stored in a storage;

receiving addition of a particular media clip, that references a particular media file, to a composite presentation and creating a new media clip within the composite presentation that references the particular media file;

at a later time after the addition, identifying that the new media clip no longer references the particular media file;

using a unique identifier stored in the new media clip to identify a new reference to one of (i) the particular media file and (ii) different copy of at least a portion of the particular media file; and

modifying the new media clip to include the new reference.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the new media clip is a clip data structure that references a particular asset data structure, the asset data structure storing a reference to the particular media file.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein said identifying that the new media clip no longer references the particular media file comprises identifying that the particular asset data structure is missing, wherein using the unique identifier comprises identifying a different asset data structure that stores a reference to one of (i) the particular media file and (ii) the different copy of at least a portion of the particular media file, wherein modifying the new media clip comprises modifying the reference to the particular asset data structure to refer to the different asset data structure.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the particular asset data structure is part of a particular event data structure that stores a plurality of asset data structures.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein said identifying that the new media clip no longer references the particular media file comprises identifying that the particular event data structure is missing, wherein using the unique identifier comprises identifying a different asset data structure that stores a reference to the one of (i) the particular media file and (ii) the different copy of at least a portion of the particular media file within a different event data structure, wherein said modifying the new media clip comprises modifying the reference to the particular asset data structure to refer to the different asset data structure in the different event data structure.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the composite presentation stores a modifiable prioritized list of events including the particular event, wherein identifying the different asset data structure comprises searching for an asset data structure with a similar identifier in the events in the prioritized list.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein said identifying that the new media clip no longer references the particular media file comprises identifying that the particular media file referenced by the particular asset data structure is missing, wherein using the unique identifier comprises identifying a different asset data structure that stores a reference to the different copy of at least a portion of the particular media file, wherein modifying the new media clip comprises modifying the reference to the particular asset data structure to refer to the different asset structure.

16. The method of claim 9, wherein the composite presentation comprises a set of media properties set by a user when the composite presentation is created.

17. A device comprising:

a set of processing units;

a computer readable medium storing a media-editing application for execution by at least one of the processing units of the device, the media-editing application comprising sets of instructions for;

for each of a plurality of media files imported into the media-editing application, creating a media clip that references the media file stored in a storage of the device;

receiving addition of a particular media clip, that references a particular media file, to a composite presentation and creating a new media clip within the composite presentation that references the particular media file;

at a later time after the addition, identifying that the new media clip no longer references the particular media file;

using a unique identifier stored in the new media clip to identify a new reference to one of (i) the particular media file and (ii) different copy of at least a portion of the particular media file; and

modifying the new media clip to include the new reference.

18. The device of claim 17, wherein the new media clip is a clip data structure that references a particular asset data structure, the asset data structure storing a reference to the particular media file.

19. The device of claim 18, wherein the set of instructions for identifying that the new media clip no longer references the particular media file comprises a set of instructions for identifying that the particular media file referenced by the particular asset data structure is missing, wherein the set of instructions for using the unique identifier comprises a set of instructions for identifying a different asset data structure that stores a reference to a different copy of at least a portion of the particular media file, wherein the set of instructions for modifying the new media clip comprises a set of instructions for modifying the reference to the particular asset data structure to refer to the different asset data structure.

20. The device of claim 18, wherein the set of instructions for identifying that the new media clip no longer references the particular media file comprises a set of instructions for identifying that the particular asset data structure is missing, wherein the set of instructions for using the unique identifier comprises a set of instructions for identifying a different asset data structure that stores a reference to one of (i) the particular media file and (ii) the different copy of at least a portion of the particular media file, wherein the set of instructions for modifying the new media clip comprises a set of instructions for modifying the reference to the particular asset data structure to refer to the different asset data structure.