Apple Inc.

Gregory Evan Niles

Stephen Sheeler

Guido Hucking

Sidhartha Deb

Gregory B Abbas

Jean-Francois Pelletier

Charles J Migos

Brian Everett Meaney

Jean-Pierre M Mouilleseaux

Egan Schulz

Colleen M Pendergast

Tom Langmacher

Jordan P McCommons

Peter A Steinauer

Brian Edward Walsh

John Gabriel Foster

Jerremy Holland

Patrick O Heynen

Dave Cerf

Nils Angquist

Charles Lyons

Richard H Salvador

Fernando Garcia

Shaun M Poole

Michaelle Stikich

Stephen A Bayes

Anne Swenson

Martin Boyd

William Stein

Robin Mikawa

Jack Sang Hun Yi

David C Schweinsberg

In one or more embodiments, a computing device is configured to present playback of a media composition on a touchscreen display. Concurrently with presenting the playback, the computing device receives, via the touchscreen display during a first time period, a touch input that includes a series of motions that start when a particular frame of the media composition is being presented. Responsive to receiving the touch input: the computing device adds a media clip to the media composition, with the media clip including a graphical representation of the touch input, having a duration corresponding to the first time period, and being stored in association with the particular frame. Subsequent to adding the media clip, the computing device presents a second playback of the media composition where playback of the media clip is initiated when playback of the particular frame is started during the second playback of the media composition.

Video editing and key-framing animations using accessory on a touch device

Some embodiments provide a method that provides tools for defining a scene including media objects in a multi-dimensional space. The method provides a set of user interface tools for adjusting a region of focus for rendering the space from a particular location within a particular field of view. In some embodiments, the region of focus is a first region in the space within the particular field of view and the space further includes a second region outside of the region of focus within the particular field of view. In some embodiments, the method also provides a set of effects for applying to the second region but not the first region to visually indicate the first region as the region of focus within the space and the second region as a region outside of the region of focus within the space.

Depth of field for a camera in a media-editing application

Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface

In one aspect, in general, a method includes receiving, in a user interface of a video editing application executing on a computer system, an indication from a user of the video editing application to edit an animated object associated with a video clip displayed in the user interface, receiving, by the video editing application executing on the computer system, data specifying an editing location of the animated object, and determining, by the video editing application executing on the computer system, a frame of the video clip associated with the editing location of the animated object, the determination based on the data specifying the editing location of the animated object. Other aspects may include corresponding systems, apparatus, and computer program products.

Editing animated objects in video

Some embodiments provide a three dimensional (3D) media-editing application for dynamically presenting different views of a 3D project that includes one or more objects disbursed throughout a 3D space. A dynamic display provides the dynamic views upon the occurrence of specified triggering events. In some embodiments, the dynamic display appears within the 3D media-editing application throughout the duration of the triggering event and is removed upon completion of the triggering event. The dynamic display of some embodiments shows edits to the 3D project from a predicted angle or viewing perspective that best conveys the objects of the 3D project in conjunction with the actions of the triggering event without duplicating views presented in one or more static workspace windows of the 3D media-editing application.

Dynamic viewing of a three dimensional space

A media editing application is provided that enables an author-user to create a rig graphically. A rig includes a group of snapshots of one or more parameters at different instances of time. A rig is created by selecting one or more objects and creating snapshots of one or more parameters of the selected objects to create an effect. In some embodiments animation is added to some of the snapshots. Some embodiments provide an edit mode where all parameters that are changed during the edit mode are automatically added to the current snapshot at the end of editing mode.

Rigging parameters to create effects and animation

Some embodiments provide a method for displaying content. The method provides a first display area for displaying content and receiving modifications to the content. The method provides a second display area for displaying a preview of the content. In some embodiments, a modification to the content automatically causes a corresponding modification to the preview. In some embodiments, the size of the content is larger than the size of the first display area and the first display area only displays a portion of the content. In some such embodiments, the second display area displays the entirety of the preview of the entire content at once. Some embodiments also provide a window in the second display area that indicates in the preview the portion of the content concurrently displayed in the first display area.

Scrollable preview of content

A computer readable medium (CRM) storing a media editing application for creating media presentations is described. The application includes a graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI has (1) a display area for displaying a composite presentation that the application creates by compositing a plurality of media clips, (2) a composite display area for displaying graphical representations of a set of media clips that are part of the composite presentation, (3) an audition display area for displaying graphical representations of a set of media clips that are candidates for adding to the composite presentation at a particular location, and (4) an audition tool for creating an audition set for a particular location in the composite display area, where the audition set is a user modifiable set of clips, each of which is for individual placement at the particular location for inclusion in the composite presentation.

Media clip auditioning used to evaluate uncommitted media content

Video clips are depicted both in an overall layer and in a set of individual tracks, or rows. The user can cause the display to be expanded or collapsed, as desired, so as to reveal or hide the individual tracks. Video clips are fully editable in either the expanded or collapsed viewing modes. When the collapsed mode is in effect, bars representing individual video clips are still visible, and can be individually selected and manipulated. When the expanded mode is in effect, separate tracks are shown for each individual clip, but the overall layer remains visible, and the individual video clips also remain visible, selectable, and manipulable within the overall layer.

Editing within single timeline

A user can control the animation of an object via an interface that includes a control area and a user-manipulable control element. In one embodiment, the control area includes an ellipse, and the user-manipulable control element includes an arrow. In yet another embodiment, the control area includes an ellipse, and the user-manipulable control element includes two points on the circumference of the ellipse. In yet another embodiment, the control area includes a first rectangle, and the user-manipulable control element includes a second rectangle. In yet another embodiment, the user-manipulable control element includes two triangular regions, and the control area includes an area separating the two regions.

User interface for controlling animation of an object

A method of associating a computer generated camera with an object in a three-dimensional computer generated space. The method receives a command to associate the camera with an object in the simulated space. Based on the command the method determines a path for moving the camera to a position near the object and aiming the camera at the object. The method creates a video from the simulated camera's perspective of the three-dimensional simulated space.

Directing camera behavior in 3-D imaging system

An enhanced motion behavior framework, in which an input is received from a user corresponding to an object to be animated and one or more animation parameters to be applied to the object, the one or more animation parameters are applied to the object, and an animation of the object is displayed based on the application of the one or more parameters to the object.

Enhanced motion behavior framework

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Gregory Evan Niles