Patent ID: 7478327

Claim:
A method for collecting a time based stream of information in a processing system for generating a presentation, the method comprising: A) communicating with an information source having a time based stream of information; B) presenting capture information from the time based stream of information on a portion of a first interface on a display while the capture information is acquired from the information source in a capture mode, the capture mode to import the time based stream of information into the system, wherein the capture information is displayed at a first rate that is substantially the same as a transfer rate at which the time based stream of information arrives from the information source by an automatic interrupt procedure that includes copying the time based information that arrives from the information source to a proxy wherein the interrupt procedure repeats at a second rate that is not less than the transfer rate 30 frames per second at which the time based stream of information arrives from the information source; and C) presenting on the first interface on the display at least one enabled edit-control element, which directly causes editing of the time based stream of information, the presenting of the at least one enabled edit control element being performed concurrently while presenting the capture information from the time based stream of information that is concurrently being imported into the system on the first interface.