Role-facilitated editing operations
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1. A non-transitory machine readable medium storing a media-editing application having a user interface (UI), the media-editing application for execution by at least one processing unit, the UI comprising:
- a timeline for displaying a representation of a composite presentation comprising a plurality of media clips, each media clip assigned a set of one or more roles from a plurality of different roles; and
a timeline focus tool for displaying selectable items representing the plurality of different roles, wherein a selection of a particular selectable item representing a particular role changes an appearance of each media clip that is assigned the particular role from a first appearance to a second different appearance in the timeline.
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Abstract
Some embodiments of the invention provides a media editing application that includes tools to perform a variety of different editing operations based on roles assigned to media content. In some embodiments, the media editing application includes focus-editing tools to emphasize or de-emphasize different sets of clips based on the assigned roles. In some embodiments, the media editing application allows one or more sets of clips to be disabled or enabled during playback based on the assigned roles.
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1. A non-transitory machine readable medium storing a media-editing application having a user interface (UI), the media-editing application for execution by at least one processing unit, the UI comprising:
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a timeline for displaying a representation of a composite presentation comprising a plurality of media clips, each media clip assigned a set of one or more roles from a plurality of different roles; and a timeline focus tool for displaying selectable items representing the plurality of different roles, wherein a selection of a particular selectable item representing a particular role changes an appearance of each media clip that is assigned the particular role from a first appearance to a second different appearance in the timeline. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. For a media-editing application, a method of editing a composite presentation, the method comprising:
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displaying, in a timeline, a representation of the composite presentation comprising a plurality of media clips, each media clip assigned a set of one or more roles from a plurality of different roles; displaying selectable items representing the plurality of different roles; receiving a selection of a particular selectable item representing a particular role; and changing, in response to the selection, an appearance of each media clip that is assigned the particular role from a first appearance to a second different appearance in the timeline. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15)
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16. A method of defining a media-editing application comprising a user interface (UI), the method comprising:
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defining a timeline for displaying a representation of a composite presentation comprising a plurality of media clips, each media clip assigned a set of one or more roles from a plurality of different roles; and defining a timeline focus tool for displaying selectable items representing the plurality of different roles, wherein a selection of a particular selectable item representing a particular role changes an appearance of each media clip that is assigned the particular role from a first appearance to a second different appearance in the timeline. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18)
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