2A illustrates a graphical user interface for a media file editing program in accordance with the teachings of the present disclosure.įIG. 1 b illustrates the transfer of an audio/video media file to a personal computer.įIG. 1 a illustrates creation of an audio/video media file.įIG. The speed of the playback preferably varies as a function of the displacement between the playhead and cursor, i.e., the rate at which the playhead is dragged along the scrubber bar. By clicking and dragging a playhead along a scrubber bar, the user may hear an accelerated playback of the audio portion of the media file. The graphical user interface further comprises a play head indicating a current temporal location of the media being displayed and/or audibly broadcast at that point in the media file. In particular, a graphical user interface provides a scrubber bar, which iconographically illustrates a time axis of the media file. The interface provides improved features for locating a point of interest with in the media file based on an audible portion of the file. More particularly, the present invention relates to a graphical user interface for media file editing software designed to be used on a general purpose computer. The present invention relates to a graphical user interface. Thus, it would be beneficial to provide video editing software and/or a video editing software hardware combination with a greatly simplified user interface to enable a typical consumer to produce professional-grade video using inexpensive, general-purpose computers. Although the computational power necessary to perform video editing has been made available to the consumer, the historic problems with excessive user interface complexity has prevented wide-spread adoption of video editing hardware and software for the personal computer targeted at the consumer market. Recently, innovations in computing power of personal computers has combined with reduced costs for such systems and availability of consumer-grade digital video cameras to put professional-grade video editing within the capability of consumer-oriented personal computers and relatively inexpensive hardware/software combinations. Because the market for video editing equipment, e.g., video editing software, has been comprised almost entirely of professionals, it has historically been very feature rich, but also encumbered with correspondingly sophisticated user interfaces. This was in part because the significant computational power necessary to perform editing of video images has been prohibitively expensive for the consumer market. Historically editing of video images has been limited to professional production companies using extremely expensive equipment. The invention relates generally to video editing software, and more particularly to a graphical user interface for video editing software.
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