Tool for navigating a composite presentation

摘要

A computer readable medium storing a media editing application for creating media presentations is described. The application includes a graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI has (1) a composite display area for displaying graphical representations of a set of media clips that are part of the composite presentation and (2) a navigation tool including several selectable navigation markers associated with several navigable locations in the composite presentation. The selection of a navigation marker causes the composite display area to present the navigable location in the composite presentation that is associated with the selected navigation marker.

主权项

1. A machine readable medium storing a media editing application for execution by at least one processing unit, said application comprising a graphical user interface (GUI), said GUI comprising:
a composite display area for displaying a plurality of graphical representations of a plurality of media clips that are part of a plurality of sections of a composite media presentation that the application creates by compositing the plurality of media clips; and a navigation tool comprising a plurality of selectable navigation markers associated with the plurality of sections of the composite media presentation, at least one section comprising at least two different media clips, the selection of a navigation marker causing the composite display area to present the section of the composite media presentation associated with the selected navigation marker, wherein only one navigation marker is associated with each particular section, wherein when an input to add a media clip to a particular section is received through a drag and drop of a graphical representation of the media clip over a navigation marker corresponding to the particular section, the media clip is added to a location within the particular section that corresponds to a location of a playhead in the composite display area.