Patent ID: 8819087

Claim:
A system for assisting in the production of a media work from a plurality of content recordings, the system comprising: an intake unit having a processor programmed to simultaneously process the content recordings to produce digital recordings that including a plurality of time stamps, and receive transcriber input information including a transcribing party; a file-storage server accessible over a communications network for storing digital recordings processed by the intake unit, the file-storage server storing the digital recordings as files that are accessible over the communications network by reference to corresponding network identifiers, the intake unit being programmed to generate, upon completion of the storage of at least one of the digital recordings in the file-storage server, a notification of the presence of the digital recording in the file-storage server and a transcribing request based on the digital recording, and transmit the transcribing request to the transcribing party, the transcribing request includes at least one of file-storage location of the recording's digital version, an indication of whether transcription is to be done, and the identity of the party to perform the transcription; a media-library server comprising: a database of library records of the content recordings, each library record having a field to store the network address of the digital recording and a plurality of information fields that store respective pieces of information about the digital recording including at least one of the transcribing request and the transcribing party; and a set of instructions that generate web page representations of the library records that are accessible over the communications network; and a sub-clip processor configured to: divide the digital recording into a plurality of sub-clips based on the time stamps and the transcriber input information.