Patent ID: 7325199

Claim:
A method for processing a presentation of a time based stream of information, the method comprising: A) providing a user interface having functionality to display on a screen only a single graphical representation of a time line, the time line including a video time line and an audio time line overlapped with each other and synchronized in time, wherein the video time line is selectable via a video selection tab and the audio time line is selectable via an audio selection tab different than the video selection tab, wherein when the video selection tab is activated the video time line is displayed without displaying the audio timeline, wherein when the audio selection tab is activated, the audio time line is displayed overlaying the video time line such that only the audio time line is displayed without showing the video time line while the audio and video time lines are still synchronized in time, wherein the single graphical representation of the video time line includes a plurality of references, each reference corresponding to a visual time based stream of information, each reference including one of at least two types of edit features, each edit feature including a description, wherein at least two of the references are to be positioned in a presentation, wherein any time instant along the time line corresponds to at most one of the references positioned in the presentation, and wherein each reference is displayed in a form of a still image of a frame in the corresponding visual time based stream of information; B) displaying the single graphical representation of the time line on the screen according to the user interface; C) displaying a reference with an edit feature on the screen according to the user interface; and D) dragging the reference over the single graphical representation of the time line to insert the edit feature into the presentation.