Patent ID: 8612858
Filing Date: 2013-12-17
Classification: G06F,G11B

Abstract:
1. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a media editing application for creating multimedia presentations, the application comprising a graphical user interface (GUI), the GUI comprising: a preview display area for displaying a preview of a composite presentation that the application creates by compositing a plurality of media clips; a timeline that represents a duration of the composite presentation; a composite display area comprising a plurality of tracks that span the timeline in a horizontal direction to display a graphical representation of the composite presentation, each track displaying one or more graphical representations of media clips that are placed along the horizontal direction of the timeline; and a compression tool for compressing the graphical representation of the composite presentation in the composite display area by performing an automated process that (i) identifies, on one or more tracks, empty spaces that are without clip representations and that are capable of accommodating one or more clip representations without creating an overlap between two clip representations, and (ii) moves at least a first clip representation from a first track and a second clip representation from a second track to identified empty spaces on a third track while maintaining the horizontal placement of the first and second clip representations with respect to the timeline, and while maintaining the first and second clip representations' respective association with the first and second tracks.