Patent ID: 8769421

Claim:
A machine readable medium storing a media editing application for creating multimedia presentations, the application comprising a graphical user interface (GUI), the GUI comprising: a composite display area for displaying (i) a portion of a timeline of a composite media presentation, (ii) a plurality of user-defined segments arranged in a particular order on the timeline, and (iii) a plurality of representations of a plurality of multimedia clips, wherein the representations of the multimedia clips are assigned to the user-defined segments to create the composite media presentation, at least one segment comprises at least a first representation and a second representation that do not overlap in the timeline, and at least one boundary of at least one of the user-defined segments does not coincide with boundaries of any multimedia clips assigned to the segment; and an outline display area for displaying a list of selectable items representing the user-defined segments in the particular order, wherein a plurality of navigation operations performed on the selectable items in the list affects the display of the user-defined segments in the composite display area without any direct interaction with the composite display area and without modifying the composite media presentation.