Auditioning Tools for a Media Editing Application

Abstract

Some embodiments provide a media editing application. The application places several committed media clips in a composite display area to specify a description of a composite presentation. In response to receiving a request to create a new version for a first media clip placed at a particular location in the composite display area, the application creates an audition set at the particular location in the composite display area. The application creates a second media clip from the first media clip. The application adds the first and second media clips to the audition set. At least one of the first and second media clips is a candidate media clip that is insertable at the location in the composite display area but is not a media clip that has been committed for inclusion in the description of the composite presentation.

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         33 . A non-transitory machine readable medium storing a program which when executed by at least one processing unit implements a graphical user interface (GUI) for a media editing application, the GUI comprising:
 a preview display area for displaying a composite presentation that the media editing application creates by compositing a plurality of media clips;   a composite display area for displaying a set of committed media clips that are committed to be part of the composite presentation;   an audition tool for creating an audition set comprising (i) one media clip that is committed to the composite display area at a particular location, and (ii) a plurality of media clips that are candidates for inclusion at the particular location in the composite display area; and   an audition set display area accessible through an audition set in the composite display area, the audition set display area a window within the media editing application for displaying a graphical representation of the committed media clip and candidate media clips as a navigable display of media clips upon receiving a selection of the committed media clip associated with the candidate media clips.   
     
     
         34 . The non-transitory machine readable medium of  claim 33 , wherein the GUI further comprises an edit tool for performing a move operation that moves the audition set from the particular location to another location in the composite display area in order to move the audition set within the composite presentation. 
     
     
         35 . The non-transitory machine readable medium of  claim 33 , wherein the GUI further comprises an edit tool for performing a copy operation that copies the audition set and places the copy of the audition set at another location in the composite display area in order to add the copy to the composite presentation. 
     
     
         36 . The non-transitory machine readable medium of  claim 33 , wherein the GUI further comprises an edit tool for performing an application of one effect to all media clips within the audition set. 
     
     
         37 . The non-transitory machine readable medium of  claim 33 , wherein the GUI further comprises an edit tool for performing a finalize operation that discards the audition set at the particular location but maintains at the particular location the committed media clip from the audition set. 
     
     
         38 . The non-transitory machine readable medium of  claim 33 , wherein the audition set is a first audition set, and wherein the GUI further comprises an edit tool for performing a split edit operation that divides the audition set into second and third audition sets. 
     
     
         39 . The non-transitory machine readable medium of  claim 38 , wherein the second audition set includes a portion of the committed media clip of the first audition set while the third audition set includes a different portion of the committed media clip of the first audition set. 
     
     
         40 . The non-transitory machine readable medium of  claim 39 , wherein the second and third audition sets each includes all candidate media clips from the first audition set. 
     
     
         41 . A non-transitory machine readable medium storing a program which when executed by at least one processing unit implements a graphical user interface (GUI) for a media editing application, the GUI comprising:
 a preview display area for displaying a composite presentation that the media editing application creates by compositing a plurality of media clips;   a composite display area for graphically displaying a set of committed media clips that are committed to be part of the composite presentation;   an audition tool for creating an audition set comprising (i) one media clip that is committed to the composite display area at a particular location, and (ii) a plurality of media clips that are candidates for inclusion at the particular location in the composite display area, said audition set graphically displayed in the composite display area in terms of the committed media clip for the audition set; and   an audition set display area for displaying a pop up of graphical representations of each media clip in the audition set as thumbnails of a single video image from each of the media clips in the audition set when a selection of the graphically displayed audition set is received.   
     
     
         42 . The machine readable medium of  claim 41 , wherein each committed clip in the composite display area has a particular length associated with the duration of the clip that is included in the composite presentation, and wherein the length of the audition set's committed media clip represents the duration in the composite presentation that is allocated to the audition set. 
     
     
         43 . The machine readable medium of  claim 42 , wherein the audition tool is further for allowing a user to select a different media clip in the audition set from the audition set display area as the only committed media clip in the audition set to include in the composite media presentation, wherein the duration in the composite presentation that is allocated to the audition set changes when a newly committed media clip from the audition set has a different duration than a previously committed media clip from the audition set. 
     
     
         44 . The machine readable medium of  claim 41 , wherein the GUI further comprises a compositing tool for creating a composite sequence of video clips in an organizer display area, wherein the organizer display area displays each individual video clip in the organizer display area as a thumbnail image of one video image of the video clip, and displays each composited sequence of video clips in the organizer display area as one thumbnail image of one video image of one of the video clips in the sequence of video clips. 
     
     
         45 . The non-transitory machine readable medium of  claim 44 , wherein the composite display area is further for receiving, at a particular location of the composite display area, a composite sequence of clips from the organizer display area, and wherein placing the composite sequence of clips at the particular location causes the composite display area to display one sequence clip at the particular location. 
     
     
         46 . A method of editing a media presentation using a media editing application, the method comprising:
 receiving a selection of an effect to apply to an audition set comprising a plurality of media clips that are candidates for inclusion at one location in a composite presentation that the media editing application creates by compositing a plurality of media clips;   receiving a selection of an audition set to which to apply the selected effect, wherein the audition set includes a media clip that is an active pick to be included in the composite presentation at the one location;   upon receiving the selection of the audition set, displaying a menu for receiving a selection of which media clips of the audition set to apply the selected effect;   receiving a selection from the displayed menu to apply the effect to a selected subset of the media clips in the audition set; and   applying the effect to the selected subset of the media clips in the audition set.   
     
     
         47 . The method of  claim 46 , wherein the selected effect is a blur effect. 
     
     
         48 . The method of  claim 46 , wherein the selected effect is a fade-in/fade-out effect. 
     
     
         49 . The method of  claim 46 , wherein the selected effect is a black and white effect. 
     
     
         50 . The method of  claim 46 , wherein the menu for receiving the selection of which media clips to apply the selected effect to includes a user selectable option that when selected causes the selected effect to be applied to all of the media clips in the selected audition set. 
     
     
         51 . The method of  claim 46 , wherein the selected subset comprises only the active pick. 
     
     
         52 . The method of  claim 46  further comprising:
 receiving a selection of a second effect to apply to the audition set; and 
 automatically applying the second effect to only the active pick.