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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 24, 2000
Mark John McGrath, Bracknell, GB;
Andrew Kydd, Basingstoke, GB;
Sony United Kingdom Limited, Weybridge, GB;
Abstract
Editing apparatus for controlling editing of source audio and/or video material stored as one or more source files on a storage medium to generate an edited material series of clips from the source material arranged as one or more parallel sequences of temporally successive source material clips, at least some of the clips having one or more predefined time points within the clip comprises user-controllable means for adjusting the temporal position of a start point, an end point or both of clips in the edited material series, the adjusting means being operable to adjust the temporal position in steps so that at each step the temporal position is aligned with a predefined point of another clip in the same or another parallel sequence.