Patent ID: 7165219
Filing Date: 2007-01-16
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A video editing system, comprising: a random access computer readable medium for storing video information in one or more data files in a computer file system; a display; a standard alphanumeric keyboard; computing apparatus operative in response to user input to perform editing operations on the video information, and operative in response to user input to display video information from the one or more data files in a source video window in the display, and operative in response to user input to display results of the editing operations on the video information in an edited program window on the display, and operative in response to a signal from a key on the standard alphanumeric keyboard to select one of the source video window and edited video window for display, and operative in response to signals from a set of three keys located right next to each other on one horizontal row in the standard alphanumeric keyboard to control shuttling of playback of the video information from the one or more data files in the selected window at a shuttle speed and in a shuttle direction, such that a first of the three keys is for forward shuttling, a second of the three keys is for pausing, a third of the three keys is for reverse shuttling, and wherein: