Patent ID: 7793219

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving input associated with a first graphical object in a first window of a graphical user interface; and in response to receiving the input associated with the first graphical object: moving the first graphical object from the first window to a second window in the graphical user interface; positioning the first graphical object in a structural relationship of graphical objects in the second window, the structural relationship being a first collection of graphical objects with each graphical object representing a portion of information related to a multimedia composition; displaying the first graphical object at a first level of a hierarchy displayed in the second window, the first graphical object representing a menu visible during a rendering of a new multimedia composition; upon detecting movement of a second graphical object from the first window to the second window, displaying the second graphical object at a second level of the hierarchy, the second level of the hierarchy deeper than the first level of the hierarchy; while the first graphical object is displayed, appending a first menu item, from the menu, to the first graphical object; displaying a first link, in the second window, between the second graphical object and the first menu item appended to the first graphical object wherein appending the first menu item includes: creating the first menu item to describe content associated with the second graphical object; appending a graphical field to the first graphical object, the graphical field including display of the first menu item; creating the first link, the first link including a first directional indicator that describes a parent-child relationship between the first graphical object and the second graphical object; and wherein displaying the first link includes: connecting the graphical field to the second graphical object via the first link; wherein connecting the graphical field to the second graphical object via the first link includes: indicating that video content associated with the second graphical object will be accessed upon selection of the first menu item from the rendered instance of the menu visible during the rendering of a new multimedia composition.