Patent ID: 6400378
Filing Date: 2002-06-04
Classification: G11B,Y10S

Abstract:
A home movie editing system, comprising:a first input configured to receive at least one input video stream comprising at least one video clip; a video clip window on a display device, said video clip window configured to display thumbnails of the video clips input, each of said thumbnails comprising a frame of video of a corresponding clip; a video clip edit window on a display device, said video clip edit window configured to display a sequence of thumbnails of selected video clips; a cursor control device controlling a cursor on the display, said cursor control device configured to use the cursor to select video clips displayed in the video clip window, drag each selected video clip into the video clip edit window and drop the selected video clips at a determined location in the video clip edit window; and wherein said video clip edit window further includes an insert marker, said insert marker configured to point to the closest video clip boundary relative to the location of the cursor, said insert marker configured to identify a point of insertion of a video clip dragged to the video clip edit window.