LIGHT TABLE EDITOR FOR VIDEO SNIPPETS

• US 20080244410A1
• Filed: 03/29/2007
• Published: 10/02/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Schormann, Christian
• Granted Patent: US 8,139,919 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/723
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

A light table video application includes a stackable video snippet player control, a filmstrip video snippet player control, and a timeline video snippet player control. A user may edit indicate the sequence of an edited video clip by placing one or more stackable video snippet players in a stacked fashion. A user may change the display of a stackable video snippet player control to a filmstrip video snippet player control by resizing the stackable video snippet player control. A timeline video snippet player control provides functionality for a user to drag a video player control into a sequence and place the digital video file associated with the video player at a location indicated by an insert indicator.

Claims

1. A stackable video snippet player user interface control, comprising:

an insertion before indicator that displays an indication that another user interface control will be placed before the stackable video snippet player user interface control in a sequence;

an insertion after indicator that displays an indication that another user interface control will be placed after the stackable video snippet player user interface control in a sequence; and

a video preview window for displaying a digital video file corresponding to the stackable video snippet player user interface control.

2. The stackable video snippet player user interface control of claim 1, wherein one or more computer-executable instructions associated with the stackable video snippet player user interface control and executed by the computer system implement the following operations:

determine the position of a second user interface control in relation to the stackable video snippet player user interface control;

highlighting the insertion before indicator in response to determining the second user interface control falls within a first predetermined area on the stackable video snippet player user interface control; and

highlighting the insertion after indicator in response to determining the second user interface control falls within a second predetermined area on the stackable video snippet player user interface control.

3. The stackable video snippet player user interface control of claim 1, further comprising a context menu to be displayed in response to a user command, the context menu displaying a command to save the compiled digital video file associated with the stackable video snippet player user interface control and any additional user interface controls determined to be in sequence with the stackable video snippet player user interface control.

4. The stackable video snippet player user interface control of claim 1, wherein the stackable video snippet player user interface control executes within a light table video snippet editing application.

5. The stackable video snippet player user interface control of claim 1, wherein the insertion before indicator is a vertical bar located on the left side of the video preview window.

6. The stackable video snippet player user interface control of claim 1, wherein the insertion after indicator is a vertical bar located on the right side of the video preview window.

7. A filmstrip video snippet player user interface control, comprising:

at least one filmstrip window displaying at least one frame of a digital video file associated with the filmstrip video snippet player user interface control; and

wherein the filmstrip video snippet player user interface control is displayed as a result of a user increasing the size of a video player user interface control using a control resize handle.

8. The filmstrip video snippet player user interface control of claim 7, wherein one or more computer-executable instructions associated with the filmstrip video snippet player user interface control and executed by the computer system implement the following operations:

determining a number of frames of the digital video file;

determining a width of the digital video file;

determining a number of frames that fit within the filmstrip video snippet player user interface control;

determining the regular interval of frames to be displayed using the width, the number of frames that fit within the filmstrip video snippet player user interface control, and the number of frames of the digital video file; and

selecting frames to be displayed in the filmstrip video snippet player user interface control using the determined regular interval.

9. The filmstrip video snippet player user interface control of claim 7, further comprising a snippet playback window to display the digital video file.

10. The filmstrip video snippet player user interface control of claim 7, wherein the filmstrip video snippet player user interface control changes to a different configuration in response to a user dragging the control resize handle.

11. The filmstrip video snippet player user interface control of claim 7, further comprising a trim beginning control.

12. The filmstrip video snippet player user interface control of claim 7, further comprising a trim end control.

13. The filmstrip video snippet player user interface control of claim 7, further comprising video playback controls.

14. A timeline video edit user interface control, comprising:

at least one video information window and a digital video file corresponding to the at least one video information window;

at least one insert indicator; and

at least one insert between indicator.

15. The timeline video edit user interface control of claim 14, wherein one or more computer-executable instructions associated with the timeline video edit user interface control and executed by the computer system implement the following operations:

highlighting the insert between indicator in response to a user dragging a second user interface control corresponding to a second digital video file into a predetermined area on the at least one video information window;

splitting the digital video file at a predetermined location; and

inserting the second video file at the predetermined location.

16. The timeline video edit user interface control of claim 14, wherein one or more computer-executable instructions associated with the timeline video edit user interface control and executed by the computer system implement the following operations:

highlighting an insert indicator in response to a user dragging a third user interface control corresponding to a third digital video file into a predetermined area on the at least one video information window; and

inserting the second digital video file at a location indicated by the insert indicator in response to a user'"'"'s instruction to place the second digital video file.

17. The timeline video edit user interface control of claim 14, further comprising a context menu to be displayed in response to a user command, the context menu displaying a command to save the compiled digital video file associated with the timeline video edit user interface control.

18. The timeline video edit user interface control of claim 14, further comprising a timeline preview control for displaying the digital video file.

19. The timeline video edit user interface control of claim 14, wherein the video information window is a video preview control.

20. The timeline video edit user interface control of claim 14, wherein the insert between indicator is displayed within the video information window.