Patent ID: 8463109

Claim:
A method of editing digital motion picture computer files and digital audio computer files comprising: recording the digital motion picture files and the digital audio files, the digital motion picture files being recorded and stored at a location of a film shoot to thereby obtain recorded digital picture files; loading the recorded digital motion picture files and the digital audio files onto at least one portable file transport device; uploading metadata from the digital motion picture files to a metadata database; copying the recorded digital motion picture files from the at least one portable file transport device to a storage area network; verifying the accuracy of the copying by effecting a bit error comparison to determine that bit errors do not exceed a bit error rate threshold to obtain verified recorded digital motion picture files; converting the verified recorded digital motion picture files copied onto the storage area network to compressed recorded digital motion picture files; loading the digital audio files from the at least one portable file transport device to the storage area network; combining and synchronizing the compressed recorded digital motion picture files with the digital audio files loaded onto the storage area network to generate compressed recorded digital motion picture files with corresponding digital audio files; organizing the compressed recorded digital motion picture files with corresponding digital audio files with the metadata loaded onto the metadata database to generate compressed recorded digital motion picture files with corresponding digital audio files and metadata; editing files according to how the recorded digital motion picture files and audio files and the metadata are organized by cutting and organizing the compressed recorded digital motion picture files with corresponding digital audio files and metadata to generate at least one editing decision list document and editing instructions; converting the at least one editing decision list document to retrieval instructions; retrieving the recorded digital motion picture files according to the retrieval instructions; and conforming the retrieved recorded digital motion picture files and the digital audio files according to the editing instructions, and according to the recorded digital motion picture files, and wherein during each of the film editing, loading and copying steps, the recorded digital motion picture files are maintained and employed to obtain conformed digital motion picture files according to the recorded digital motion picture files, and wherein the digital motion picture files are selected from the group consisting of uncompressed 4:4:4 full-range RGB DPX (digital motion picture exchange) files; DPX (digital motion picture exchange) files; OpenEXR File Format, Tagged Image File Format (TIFF), Targa (Truevision Advanced Raster Graphics Adapter) File Format, and JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) File Format.