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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2014
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Ken Matsuda, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Dave Cerf, San Francisco, CA (US);
Itrat U. Khan, San Jose, CA (US);
Matthew D. Diephouse, Columbus, OH (US);
Brian Meaney, San Jose, CA (US);
Vincenzo De Marco, San Jose, CA (US);
Jordan P. McCommons, San Francisco, CA (US);
Louis LaSalle, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A media application of some embodiments includes a timeline, which is a composite display area for displaying media clips that are part of the composite media presentation. The timeline of some embodiments includes a primary lane called a spine as well as one or more anchor lanes. The spine represents a primary sequence of media, which, in some embodiments, does not have any gaps. When a clip is deleted or removed from the timeline, the media-editing applications automatically closes the gap created in place of the clip. The clips in the anchor lanes are anchored to a particular position along the spine. Anchor lanes may be used for compositing (e.g., removing portions of one video and showing a different video in those portions), B-roll cuts (i.e., cutting away from the primary video to a different video whose clip is in the anchor lane), audio clips, or other composite presentation techniques.