Patent ID: 7954065

Claim:
A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, in a digital media system, a media item for display in a plurality of thumbnails that collectively represent the media item, wherein the media item includes a plurality of frames, and wherein each thumbnail represents a portion of the plurality of frames of the media item, each portion including at least two frames; displaying, within a media pane that is displayed within a user interface in the digital media system, an initial one or more thumbnails of the plurality of thumbnails in a first row extending across the media pane in such that a first thumbnail of the initial one or more thumbnails is displayed substantially adjacent to a left vertical edge of the media pane and subsequent thumbnails of the initial one or more thumbnails are displayed substantially adjacent to one another to the right of the first thumbnail in the first row; determining that a last thumbnail of the initial one or more thumbnails is displayed substantially adjacent to a second vertical edge of the media pane, and in response to the determining, displaying a next thumbnail that follows the last thumbnail in a second row vertically displaced from the first row, wherein a position on a thumbnail corresponds to a frame included in a portion of the plurality of frames that the thumbnail represents; detecting that a position indicator is placed at a position on a first thumbnail of the plurality of thumbnails; and displaying, within the first thumbnail, the frame of the media item to which the position of the position indicator on the first thumbnail corresponds, in response to the detecting.