Patent ID: 7165219

Claim:
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: the second key is right between the first and third keys, a first actuation of the first key in a paused condition causes images of the video material to be presented to the user at a first forward shuttle speed, a second actuation of the first key, after the first actuation of the first key and while images of the video material are presented to the user at a first forward shuttle speed, causes a change in forward shuttle speed from the first forward shuttle speed to a predetermined second forward shuttle speed the is faster than the first forward shuttle speed, a first actuation of the third key in the paused condition causes images of the video material to be presented to the user at a predetermined first reverse shuttle speed, a second actuation of the third key, after the first actuation of the third key and while images of the video material are presented to the user at a first reverse shuttle speed, causes a change in reverse shuttle speed from the first reverse shuttle speed to a predetermined second reverse shuttle speed that is faster than the first reverse shuttle speed, and a first actuation of the second key after the first or second actuations of the first key or after the first or second actuations of the third key causes the video material to be paused.