Media Editor

The editor works by bookmarking a passage or collection of passages within the original audio or video file, or bookmarking a passage or set of passages in an audio recording as it is being made. Because the selected passage is referenced and not copied, you can create multiple and overlapping clips without taxing your system's memory, even though multimedia files tend to be quite large. So the editor does not actually "cut" anything - it is really a multimedia bookmarker.

Subdocumenting and indexing/annotating are done in the same way and with the same media editor. While the source tile plays in the editor, you can create clips on any combination of one or more of the 10 topic recorders (see above).

•	You can save the whole multi-clip session as a session tile.

Each of the 10 topic recorders acts as an independent recording device can be turned on or off at any time when a source recording is playing. Because each topic recorder works independently, your clips can overlap.

When the source recording reaches the part that you want to create as a clip, click

on any of the topic recorders. The

will enlarge to an

to indicate that the subdocument is being recorded. Using a particular line rather than another is only important if you are indexing or creating multiple subdocuments.

2.	When it reaches the end of the desired segment, click the .

Because you have 10 lines, each of which can be dedicated to a different topic (for instance, one for each participant in a meeting), you can create any combination of clips for any purposes.

If a clip is saved as a subdocument tile, then the clip has full tile functionality.

As well, the DNE will always track the relation between the subdocument clip and the source recording tile. Even if the subdocument tile and the source tile are each attached to different NEs, from any subdocument its source is a mouseclick away.

If the clip is saved as part of a session tile, then it is only accessible within the session. However, you can see the clip in context and navigate through the entire session visually. Because each session is laid out visually in the media editor, you can immediately see and access what was said before and after the passage you saved as a clip, in order to get exactly as much context as you need.

In the example above, each of the horizontal lines represents a different speaker, and each clip on each topic recorder indicates a point in the session at which that speaker was speaking. In the first half of the recording there is a conversation between the bottom speaker and the third from the bottom speaker, while some other speakers join in later.

Any of these clips can be saved as a subdocument, or the whole annotated index, including all clips, can be saved as a session.

The media editor can edit: .WAV and .WMA audio files; .AVI, .MPG, .MPEG, .MLV, .MPA, .MPE, .MOV, .QT and .WMV video files.