Audio meters and parameter controls

Abstract

Some embodiments provide a media editing application that displays the audio level of a set of one or more clips that has been mixed with other clips. To indicate the audio level of the set of clips that has been mixed with other clips, the media editing application of some embodiments routes a combined audio signal of the set of clips over a meter bus in order to determine the audio level of the combined audio signal. Alternatively, the media editing application of some embodiments extracts metering information from each clip in a set of clips prior to mixing the clips. The metering information is then used to estimate the audio level of one or more clips in the composite presentation.

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CLAIM OF BENEFIT TO PRIOR APPLICATIONS[0001]This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application 61 / 537,041, filed Sep. 20, 2011, and U.S. Provisional Application 61 / 537,567, filed Sep. 21, 2011. U.S. Provisional Application 61 / 537,041 and U.S. Provisional Application 61 / 537,567 are incorporated herein by reference.BACKGROUND[0002]To date, many media editing applications exist for creating a composite media presentation by compositing several pieces of media content such as video, audio, animation, still image, etc. In some cases, a media editing application combines a composite of two or more clips with one or more other clips to output (e.g., play, export) the composite presentation.[0003]There are a number of different problems that can occur when outputting such a composite presentation. For example, some movie studios require a particular content (e.g., dialog content, music content) of a composite presentation to be separate from other content. The content separ...

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Benefits of technology

The patent text describes a media editing application that allows users to easily apply effects to different clips without needing to manually add tracks or specify effects. The application uses metadata tags to apply specific effects to each clip, and can also allow for a composite presentation to be exported to different tracks. This makes it easier for editors and film studios to create and replace tracks with different effects.

Problems solved by technology

There are a number of different problems that can occur when outputting such a composite presentation.

The problem with providing separate content is that, once several pieces of media content are mixed as one mixed content, the mixed content cannot be un-mixed to provide the separate content.

However, the “send” technique becomes increasingly complicated as additional aux buses are added to route audio signals of multiple different clips.

However, these media editing applications lack the tools or the functionality to perform different editing operations by using one or more pieces of metadata that is associated with the media content.

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