Patent ID: 8966367
Filing Date: 2015-02-24
Classification: G06F,G11B

Abstract:
1. A non-transitory machine readable medium storing a media-editing application which when executed by at least one processing unit provides a graphical user interface (GUI) for creating a composite media presentation from a plurality of media clips, the GUI comprising: a composite display area for placing media clips to specify the composite media presentation, the composite display area comprising a primary lane for placing a primary sequence of media clips and a plurality of secondary lanes for placing media clips that are anchored to media clips in the primary lane; and an editing tool comprising a first mode for performing an edit operation to a particular media clip in the primary lane and a set of media clips in a secondary lane anchored to the particular media clip and a second mode for performing the edit operation to the particular media clip without performing the edit operation to the set of media clips anchored to the particular media clip, wherein each media clip in the set of media clips in the secondary lane is connected to the particular media clip in the primary lane by an anchor at a position that defines a relationship between media content of the media clip in the secondary lane and the particular media clip in the primary lane.