Patent ID: 6710785
Filing Date: 2004-03-23
Classification: G06T,G11B

Abstract:
A method for generating an edited video program from at least one source video in a computer-based video editing system, comprising the steps of:creating at least one record, for at least one source video, containing information on said at least one source video including a number of frames constituting the source video, wherein said at least one records for said at least one source video constitutes a record set; searching a user-specified one of said at least one source video for start and end frames of each of video segments constituting said user-specified video to add, to said record set, a record of at least one scene which includes a start frame number and an end frame number of each said scene; displaying, as an index, a free representative of each said at least one scenes in a display area comprising an array of small windows; permitting a user to select a desired one of said scenes; permitting said user to group desired ones of said at least one scenes into at least one grouped scene; in response to said selecting and said grouping, updating predetermined fields of records, which contain an order of said scenes, so that said fields of record reflect an order of current scene indexes; permitting said user to select desired ones out of said scene indexes to form clip; permitting said user to put said clip indexes into an order to yield a clip list; in response to a first command issued by said user while specifying one of the displayed scene indexes, restoring said specified scene index to a relative position with respect to a specified scene index which said specified scene index was adjoining at a time of occurrence of a predetermined event; and in response to a predetermined command from said user, compiling said edited video program on the basis of said clip list.