Patent ID: 8701007

Claim:
A non-transitory machine readable medium storing a media editing application for creating media presentations, said application comprising a graphical user interface (GUI), said GUI comprising: a composite display area for displaying graphical representations of a set of committed media clips that are part of a composite presentation and a set of candidate media clips that are candidates for adding to the composite presentation; a preview tool for: adding a candidate media clip to the composite display area at a particular location that at least partially overlaps a graphical representation of a committed media clip, and differentiating in the composite display area the graphical representation of the added candidate media clip, which is a candidate for adding to the composite presentation but is not part of the composite presentation, from the graphical representation of the committed media clip that is part of the composite presentation, wherein the differentiating comprises displaying the candidate clip's graphical representation with a different shape than the committed clip's graphical representation; and a preview display area for displaying a preview of the composite presentation, wherein a preview of the committed media clip in the composite presentation is superseded by a preview of the candidate media clip in accord with the overlap of the graphical representation of the candidate media clip over the graphical representation of the committed media clip.