Patent ID: 8353406

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving at a data processing system both a user-defined sequence for a plurality of still images and at least one of the plurality of still images, and information regarding the plurality of still images including a number of the still images and identifiers for the still images; receiving at the data processing system information from which a desired length of a video may be determined; and within the data processing system, automatically defining parameters for the video based on the user-defined sequence for the still images and the desired length of the video, the parameters including a length of the video when generated with at least a plurality of portions each corresponding to one of the still images in the user-defined sequence, identifiers each identifying a still image within the plurality of the still images for a portion of the video corresponding to the respective still image, transition information for transitions in the video to and from portions of the video corresponding to one of the still images, and at least one of panning and zooming coordinates for one or more of the still images used for a portion of the video.