Patent ID: 8910032
Filing Date: 2014-12-09
Classification: G06F,G11B

Abstract:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a media-editing application for creating and editing a media presentation, said application comprising sets of instructions for: providing an editing module for editing the media presentation; specifying background-rendering operations, the background-rendering operations, rendering portions of the media presentation without interrupting editing by the editing module, including: grouping segments of media in the presentation into categories, prioritizing the categories to be processed based on attributes of the segments, and rendering the segments according to the priorities of the media presentation; and using operating system (OS) services to put the background-rendering operations and a set of other operations related to activities performed by a user of the media-editing application in differently prioritized queues, ensuring that the background-rendering operations queue is prioritized lower than the queue for the set of editing operations related to activities performed by a user when using shared computing resources in order not to interrupt editing by the editing module.