Edited-list creating apparatus, editing apparatus and editing method

• US 6,438,313 B2
• Filed: 03/06/2001
• Issued: 08/20/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Ohmori, Shigeru, Kushizaki, Makoto, Tsukimori, Koji
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, HUY THANH
• Application Number:
  US09/800,318
• Publication Number:
  US 20010008572A1
• Time in Patent Office: 532 Days
• Field of Search: 386/46, 386/52, 386/55, 386/65, 386/125, 345/328
• US Class Current: 386/281
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/031 Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D

Abstract

The present invention displays a second mark of the length corresponding to the material length of a specified image/sound material at the corresponding position on the first track in an edited-list creating screen; when a first mark displayed on one of first and second track is specified on the edited-list creating screen, emphatically displays the specified first mark and a first mark displayed on the second or first track corresponding to this in the case where video information and audio information of the video/audio material corresponding to the specified first mark are linked and registered; in obtaining edited image and/or sound, continuously plays back edit material to be played back with the same playback device; in edit-processing a plurality of continuous second edit materials of edit processing period of time is included in a first edit material on the time axis, creates edited data for continuously performing said edit processing on individual second edit materials from the first of second edit material to the last of second edit material.

Claims

1. An editing apparatus for executing an edit processing to produce a picture-in-picture clip based on an editing list wherein a plurality of continuous short clips are inclusively related to a long clip, comprising:

edited data creating means for creating edit data on the basis of said editing list, for continuously performing said edit processing on each of the continuous short clips after starting said edit processing on said long clip; and

editing means for executing said edit processing on the basis of said edit data, thereby producing said picture-in-picture clip from said long clip and said plurality of continuous short clips.

2. The editing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said edited data creating means creates preliminary edit data for continuously performing said edit processing on each of the continuous short clips before starting said edit processing on said long clip.