Patent ID: 7440972

Claim:
A method of forming interactive media content compatible with a media protocol, comprising: providing asset content; formatting a first portion of the asset content to be viewable on a player compatible with the media protocol; identifying a second portion of the asset content; forming authoring index data referencing the formatted first portion of the asset contents and the second portion of the asset contents; forming a media image including the formatted first portion of the asset contents and the second portion of the asset contents in discreet form, wherein the media image is editable after the media image is formed when the media image is opened on a workstation accessing the authoring index data; and writing the media image to a computer readable storage medium; wherein the identifying the second portion of the asset content comprises evaluating the assets of the first portion of the asset content, and identifying one or more assets that are to be composited and defining the assets identified to be composited as at least part of the second portion of the asset content to be incorporated into the media image in an uncomposited form.