Patent ID: 8307287

Claim:
A method for facilitating a media manipulation operation, comprising: receiving user input that changes when playback of a target media item will end relative to a timeline; wherein the target media item is represented by a visual representation that has a start and an end; wherein the location of the end of the visual representation, relative to the timeline, determines when playback of the target media item will end relative to an in-place video item that has been associated with the timeline and that comprises a plurality of frames; wherein the user input causes the end of the visual representation to move relative to the timeline; wherein the in-place video item has a playback time, relative to the timeline, that does not change in response to the user input; in response to the user input, performing the steps of: automatically selecting a particular frame, from the plurality of frames, based on the particular frame being aligned with the end of the visual representation, wherein the particular frame is selected without regard to the position of any cursor, and displaying a heads-up-display that visually depicts at least the particular frame without playing the in-place video item; and wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.