seen the editing tool icons represent a series of integrated composition editing tools including a video editor 211 a special effects editor 212 a text editor 213 a transitions editor 214 a video animation editor 215 an audio editor 216 and a video capture editor 217 the editing tool icons include an accompanying u201c active u201d status indicator 218 which appears as a light emitting diode to provide the user with visual confirmation that the editing tools have been used to alter a source material object displayed in the viewing window 205 edit information is stored with each object and is used when the object is dynamically displayed or played on console 200 and when the composition is finally produced turning to fig3 a the features of video editor 211 are shown the video editor includes controls for adjusting aspects of the source material object displayed in the viewing window 205 by manipulating the brightness of brightness slider 310 red control slider 311 green control slider 312 and blue control slider 313 the sliders 310 311 312 and 313 include a sliding ball which the user manipulates by means of pointer and mouse controls to adjust the corresponding color intensities of the source object additional tools are available by activating trim button 315 for u201c trimming u201d a given source object by denoting its start position with the button in control window 232 and stop.