Patent ID: 8595756

Claim:
A method for selling or licensing digital video clips, comprising: receiving, by a first computer system, a first catalog image file representing first digital video in a digital negative image format; receiving, by the first computer system, a second catalog image file representing second digital video in a digital negative image format, wherein the first catalog image file and the second catalog image file are received from different devices; for the first catalog image file: receiving, from a second computer system, a selection of the first catalog image file; receiving, from the second computer system, a selection of one or more first parameters, wherein at least one of the first parameters specifies a second format for the first catalog image file; receiving, from the second computer system, payment information for a purchase or a license of a first image file that is a version of the first catalog image file, the first image file having the second format; after receiving the selection of the first parameters and the payment information for the purchase or the license of the first image file, generating, by the first computer system, the first image file, wherein generating the first image file comprises processing the first catalog image file based on the first parameters; transmitting, by the first computer system, the first image file to the second computer system; generating, by the first computer system, a preview of the first catalog image file for display on a web browser, wherein the preview of the first catalog image file comprises a portion of the first catalog image file; providing, by the first computer system, the preview of the first catalog image file for display on the web browser; storing, by the first computer system, the first catalog image file; storing, by the first computer system, the preview of the first catalog image file, wherein, until the first image file is generated by the first computer system, the only files that are both stored by the first computer system and are a version of the first catalog image file are the first catalog image file and the preview of the first catalog image file; and wherein the first image file is stored by the first computer system only until the first image file is transmitted to the second computer system, wherein the transmission of the first image file to the second computer system causes the first image file to be deleted from storage by the first computer system.