Patent ID: 9301021
Filing Date: 2016-03-29
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method of preparing contribution content for distribution processing comprising: recording a first discrete temporal portion of a video, audio, or video and audio program stream in a first processing segment; recording a plurality of additional discrete temporal portions of the video, audio, or video and audio program stream in additional processing segments, and during recording of at least one additional processing segment, performing the following: processing the first processing segment so as to mark at least one location in the first processing segment indicating at least one of information to be deleted before the start of the program, information to be deleted after the end of the program, or at least one event within the program, after all the processing segments for the program stream have been recorded, marked, encoded, modified, and re-encoded, for each of the plurality of output formats, concatenating the encoded and re-encoded processing segments to form an output program in each of the plurality of output formats to be further processed for distribution.