Patent ID: 7124366
Filing Date: 2006-10-17
Classification: G06F,G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A computer program product, comprising: a computer readable medium storing computer program instructions for a computer program that facilitates editing of a motion picture using motion video data on a computer, wherein the computer program, when executed by a computer provides a graphical user interface, comprising: a viewer window on a display for the computer for viewing motion video data; a timeline region on the display and nonoverlapping with the viewer window for displaying a timeline representing selections of the motion video data in a temporal order that specifies the motion picture; a plurality of selectable, mutually exclusive, interfaces on the display, wherein each selectable interface is selected by user selection of one of a set of graphical elements associated with the selectable interfaces, wherein each of the selectable interfaces, when selected, displays information in a region that is nonoverlapping with the viewer window and with the timeline region, wherein the displayed information is hidden by information displayed when another of the selectable interfaces is selected, the selectable interfaces comprising: wherein playback of the motion picture represented by the timeline is viewed in the viewer window and is initiated by user selection of a graphical element indicative of a playback operation; wherein size and position of the viewer window is substantially unchanged by selection of one of the selectable interfaces; and wherein size and position of the timeline region is substantially unchanged by selection of one of the selectable interfaces.