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A video composition method and apparatus select segments from image source material stored on at least one storage medium and denote serially connected sequences of the segments to thereby form a program sequence. The apparatus and method employ pictorial labels associated with each segment for ease

A video composition method and apparatus select segments from image source material stored on at least one storage medium and denote serially connected sequences of the segments to thereby form a program sequence. The apparatus and method employ pictorial labels associated with each segment for ease of manipulating the segments to form the program sequence. The labels are displayed in an ordered spatial array of display monitors to simulate the temporal relationship between the segments in what is typically a snapshot-style non-temporal display. The apparatus and method enable the images displayed on the monitors to be scrolled, in a visually pleasing fashion, across the monitors. The scrolling of labels across the monitors is implemented by an operator control circuitry.

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Apparatus for composing image source material stored on at least one image storage medium, said source material being composed of a sequence of stored frames representing a time sequential visual image, sequences of said frames being associated to form a video segment, said composing apparatus compr

Apparatus for composing image source material stored on at least one image storage medium, said source material being composed of a sequence of stored frames representing a time sequential visual image, sequences of said frames being associated to form a video segment, said composing apparatus comprising: a plurality of pictorial display means arranged in an ordered array, each display means providing a visual presentation of a video label selected from a sequence of labels, said label sequence representing a sequence of said video segments, each said selected label identifying one said video segment; an operator control means; a composing control means operative with said medium and said operator control means, said composing control means comprising; means for selectively supplying each said pictorial display means with electrical data signals representing a selected one of said sequence of labels; means responsive to said operator control means for changing the labels displayed by said plurality of pictorial display means; and said supplying means further having means responsive to said changing means for smoothly scrolling said labels across said ordered array of display means, wherein said smoothly scrolling refers to that motion wherein it appears as though said labels were frames of a continuous imaginary film strip which was moved at a constant rate behind openings corresponding to said ordered array of said plurality of pictorial display means.