Patent ID: 7043137

Claim:
A media editing apparatus for editing media items together to form a media product, said apparatus comprising: a display to simultaneously display three representations of a single media item, each representation relating to said media item lying within a respective time period with respect to said media product, in which said three representations include a time line representation, a representation of text associated with the media items, and a graphical representation of the sequence of media items; a user control for adjusting said time period of each of said at least three representations; logic, responsive to a user adjustment of said time period for a current representation, for enabling and disabling a sympathy feature, wherein said sympathy feature enablement adjusts the respective time period of said other representations to at least encompass said user adjusted time period, and wherein said sympathy disablement disables an adjustment of the respective time periods of said other representations based on a user adjustment of a view of said current representation.