Method, system and computer program product for editing movies in distributed scalable media environment

摘要

A movie editor converts a received movie into a proxy format, and creates a texture strip representing the frames of the movie. An editor can use the texture strip to edit the movie, rather than editing the movie directly. Deep tags and/or special effects can be defined for the texture strip using a graphical interface. The graphical interface enables movies to be combined into a playback product according to a control structure graphically presented in the graphical interface.

主权项

1. A method of editing movies in a distributed scalable media environment, comprising:
applying, by a software program executing on a computer, a predetermined function to each frame of a movie to produce a texture strip, wherein the texture strip represents the movie in its entirety and comprises a sequence of textured frame representations corresponding to frames of the movie; at the computer, receiving a selection of a location in the texture strip from a user device, wherein the user device is indirectly or directly coupled to the computer over a network connection; utilizing the selected location in the texture strip to locate a temporal position of a frame relative to the entirety of the movie; and displaying, on the user device, the frame of the movie corresponding to the selected location in the texture strip.