DYNAMIC MEDIA DIRECTORIES

摘要

Methods and systems for managing media in a media editing environment enable automatic updating and relinking to media files stored in user-designated directories. The methods include maintaining an index for the media files stored in the designated directories, the index having an entry for each media file, each entry including a unique identifier for the file, and pointers to a metadata file pertaining to the media file and to the media file itself. A media editing application uses the index to access the metadata files which provide information about the corresponding media files that is displayed in the editor user interface. The designated directories may be on storage devices local to the system hosting a media editing application, or on shared storage connected via a local area network, or on remote or cloud-hosted storage. The media editing application monitors the index and updates the user interface to reflect any changes.

主权项

1. A computer system comprising:
a CPU; a memory storing instructions for execution by the CPU, the instructions including a first set of instructions for implementing a media editing application on the computer system and a second set of instructions for enabling management of time-based media for use in creating a media composition with the media editing application, wherein, upon execution of the first and second sets of instructions, the computer system: stores in the memory an index for indexing a plurality of media files stored in a plurality of storage directories specified by a user of a media editing system, the index comprising a plurality of entries, each entry of the plurality of entries corresponding to a different media file of the plurality of media files, the entry for a given media file of the plurality of media files comprising:
an identifier that uniquely identifies the given media file;a pointer to a storage location of a metadata file that includes metadata pertaining to the given media file, wherein the metadata file is adapted to the media editing system such that the media editing system is able to read the metadata file and use information from the metadata file to present to a user of the media editing system a descriptive indication of the given media file; anda pointer to a storage location of the given media file; wherein, in response to changes made to a content of one or more of the plurality of storage directories, the computer system automatically updates the index so that the plurality of entries reflect a current state of the plurality of media files stored in the plurality of storage directories.