Reference clips in a media-editing application

Abstract

Some embodiments provide a media-editing application. The application defines a reference clip data structure for a media clip that represents one or more media files imported into the media-editing application. The application receives a command to add the media clip into a composite media presentation. The application defines a clip instance data structure as part of the composite media presentation. The clip instance data structure inherits properties of the reference clip data structure and subsequent modifications to the reference clip data structure affect the clip instance data structure.

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CLAIM OF BENEFIT TO PRIOR APPLICATIONS[0001]This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application 61 / 559,710, entitled “Multi-Camera Media Clips”, filed Nov. 14, 2011. U.S. Application 61 / 559,710 is incorporated herein by reference.BACKGROUND[0002]Digital graphic design, image editing, audio editing, and video editing applications (i.e., media-editing applications) provide graphical designers, media artists, movie and television directors, and other users with the necessary tools to create a variety of media content. Examples of such applications include Final Cut Pro® and iMovie®, both sold by Apple, Inc. These applications give users the ability to edit, combine, transition, overlay, and piece together different media content in a variety of manners to create a resulting media project. The resulting media project specifies a particular sequenced composition of any number of text, audio, image, and / or video content elements that is used to create a media presentation....

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Benefits of technology

[0012]When added to a composite presentation, a multi-camera media clip instance can be edited much like other media clips in the presentation. However, in some embodiments the media-editing application provides additional or different editing functionalities for such multi-camera media clips. For example, the media-editing application of some embodiments provides multiple different ways for a user to modify which group is active for a clip instance in a composite presentation. The user may select the clip instance to produce a drop-down menu of the different groups or a display area that allows the user to cycle through video or images from the different groups.

[0013]In addition, some embodiments provide a multi-camera clip viewer (or “angle viewer”) in the GUI. The multi-camera clip viewer allows a user to simultaneously view content (e.g., video images) from multiple different groups of a single multi-camera media clip. The user can use the viewer t...

Problems solved by technology

Manually editing numerous media clips into a timeline, trying to figure out how the clips should be aligned and trimmed, and where to switch between the different cameras can be a difficult and time-intensive process.

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