Patent ID: 7046251

Claim:
A system for editing high definition television resolution video data comprising: a non-linear editor including a random-access, computer-readable and re-writeable storage medium that stores a plurality of sequences of digital still images representing high definition video data in media files, wherein the non-linear editor provides a configuration control signal that defines a video program to be edited using the stored high definition digital still images, and wherein the non-linear editor includes a serial digital interface for input and output of the high definition video data to be edited; a router for directing the high definition video data between the non-linear editor and a video processing equipment, wherein the router is connected to the serial digital interface, wherein the router receives the configuration control signal from the non-linear editor to initialize the configuration of the router, wherein the router is connected to provide video data to the video processing equipment and to receive video data from of the video processing equipment; and wherein the video processing equipment has an input for receiving high definition video data to be edited from the router and an output for sending edited high definition video data to the router, and has an input for receiving the configuration control signal from the non-linear editor to determine processing to be performed on the received high definition video data.