Patent ID: 8064752

Claim:
A method of processing digital video in a computer comprising an input port and a storage, the method comprising: receiving, at a first frame rate via the input port of the computer, a video clip embedded with metadata; determining, from the metadata, that the first frame rate is not a second native frame rate at which the video clip was shot with a camera; identifying, based on the determination, an encoding cadence from the metadata of the video clip, the encoding cadence indicating whether the video clip was encoded using a first encoding scheme or a second different encoding scheme; storing the video clip in the storage of the computer at the second native frame rate by using a first encoding technique to identify and discard different redundant frame data when the encoding cadence indicates the first encoding scheme; and storing the video clip in the storage of the computer the second native frame rate by using a second different encoding technique to identify and discard different redundant frame data when the encoding cadence indicates the second different encoding scheme.