Patent ID: 8724969

Claim:
A method of editing movies in a distributed scalable media environment over a network, comprising: sending, by a computer, a texture strip from a first location to a user device at a second location remote from the computer at the first location over said network, wherein the texture strip represents an original movie in its entirety and comprises a sequence of textured frame representations corresponding to frames of the original movie and associated information applied to or inserted into the frames, and wherein each of the frame representations is produced by applying a predetermined function to a frame in the original movie; receiving, by the computer, an edit command from the user device at the second location, wherein the edit command is expressed relative to the texture strip; applying, by a software program executing on the computer, the edit command to the original movie to create an edited movie; and sending, by the computer, a representation of the edited movie to the user device at the second location.