Patent ID: 8605796

Claim:
A method for blending at least two images, comprising: providing a first video track having a first image and a second video track having a second image; creating an edit track; placing an edit object in the edit track, the edit object having an edit object identifier to identify the edit object as a chroma-key process, the chroma key process using any color as a key color, wherein the edit object defines at least a boundary region having an edge between the first image and the second image; combining the first video track and the second video track to form a third video track; receiving edit information from the edit track at an edit track reader; processing the information from the edit track to provide instructions to a video compressor; receiving data from the third video track; and compressing, in the video compressor, the data from the edited video track according to the instructions from the edit track reader, wherein the chroma key process causes light to leak onto the first image and form a blended region around the first image that creates an edge effect, wherein the blended region is recorded as part of the boundary region, wherein compressing the third video track decreases resolution around the blended region so that the edge effect is reduced.