Patent ID: 9251850
Filing Date: 2016-02-02
CPC Classification: G11B

Claim Text:
1. A non-linear, proxy-based editing system, comprising: a proxy file generator that generates a lower resolution proxy file of source video files containing both video and audio information; an audio summary file generator that generates an audio summary file from the audio information in the proxy file by providing a single audio level for each video frame of the proxy file; an icon generator that generates an image representative of each proxy file; a web user interface having a visual display for displaying the representative icons associated with selected proxy files and their associated audio level summary files, and a digital controller connected to the proxy file generator, the audio summary file generator, the icon generator, and the web user interface, wherein, the digital controller simultaneously displays on the visual display a graph of the audio summary files of at least two source video files that includes a time axis in units of video frames, and an amplitude axis in units of audio level, and further displays both the audio summary files and the representative icons associated with the at least two source video files in serial chronological order, and further provides the web user interface with audio level controls for adjusting the audio level of some or all of the graph, wherein the digital controller displays the audio level in the graph on a logarithmic scale in decibels, and provides the web user interface with an attenuation control that allows a user to simultaneously attenuate the audio level of every video frame that is higher than a preselected maximum audio level to a preselected audio level.