Patent ID: 8522144

Claim:
A method of providing a media-editing application for creating a composite presentation by compositing a set of media clips, the method comprising: providing a media display area to display a plurality of media clips for adding to the composite presentation; providing a composite display area to receive and display a plurality of committed media clips that are committed to be a part of the composite presentation; providing a plurality of audition display areas to receive and display candidate media clips that are not committed media clips but are candidates for adding to the composite presentation; providing a plurality of selectable location markers that are associated with a plurality of locations along the composite display area; and responsive to selection of one of the location markers, causing an associated audition display area to be opened to receive one or more candidate media clips for adding to the composite presentation at the location of the composite display area that is associated with the selected location marker; wherein each location marker has a first appearance when no candidate media clip is present in the marker's audition display area, and a second appearance when at least one candidate media clip is present in the marker's audition display area; wherein, when the marker has the first appearance, the marker's associated audition display area opens in order to receive one or more media clips; and wherein, when the marker has the second appearance, the marker's associated audition display area opens to display the candidate media clips that are present in the audition display area, receive additional candidate media clips to add to the audition display area, and receive selections of one or more candidate media clips present in the audition display area to remove from the audition display area.