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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2014
Filed:
May. 19, 2011
Nils Angquist, San Francisco, CA (US);
Giovanni Agnoli, San Mateo, CA (US);
Eric J. Graves, Radnor, PA (US);
Nils Angquist, San Francisco, CA (US);
Giovanni Agnoli, San Mateo, CA (US);
Eric J. Graves, Radnor, PA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Some embodiments provide a media-editing application. The application receives a command to import a media file into the media-editing application. The media file includes a sequence of video images. The application copies the media file to a storage location associated with the media-editing application. The method performs several analysis and transcode operations on the media file in parallel. In some embodiments, the application identifies a video image on which to the operations. The application schedules a single set of image preparation operations for the video image to generate one or more sets of image data for the operations. The method sends the image data to the different operations. A same set of image data is sent to at least two of the operations.