Editing device and editing method
First Claim
1. An editing apparatus, comprising:
- an editing processing unit for processing a video signal and an audio signal supplied as source materials;
wherein said editing processing unit comprises;
an image processor for performing an effect process on said video signal;
an audio processor for processing said audio signal;
a matrix switcher for connecting source materials from a plurality of sources to the editing processing unit, thereby providing said video signal to said image processor and said audio signal to said audio processor; and
a system controller for controlling the operation of said matrix switcher, said image processor, and said audio processor in response to commands from a computer and plural dedicated controllers;
a daily server for receiving and storing source materials for editing over a network and acting as one of said plurality of sources to the editing processing unit;
an on-air buffer for storing the processed video signal and the processed audio signal from said editing processing unit for transmission over said network; and
said computer being connected to said network for controlling said editing processing unit, wherein said computer comprises;
controlling means for displaying a viewer window, a log window, and a program window on a display of said computer, the viewer window allowing the editing operator to decide an edit point while viewing a video image of a source material so as to produce an event, the log window displaying a clip image corresponding to an event that is set on the viewer window, the program window allowing the editing operator to arrange a plurality of events on a time line in a desired order so as to produce a program list, and wherein said controlling means displays an icon that represents by what source device each event arranged on the time line is produce; and
wherein said editing apparatus sets audio levels for respective audio tracks corresponding to the events arranged on the time line.
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Abstract
An editing apparatus comprises an editing processing unit for processing a video signal and an audio signal supplied as source materials, and a computer for controlling the editing processing unit, wherein the computer comprises a controlling means for displaying a viewer window, a log window, and a program window on a display of the computer, the viewer window allowing the editing operator to decide an edit point while viewing a video image of a source material so as to produce an event, the log window displaying a clip image corresponding to an event that is set on the viewer window, the program window allowing the editing operator to arrange a plurality of events on a time line in a desired order so as to produce a program list, and wherein the controlling means displays an icon that represents by what source device each event arranged on the time line is produced.
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24 Claims
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1. An editing apparatus, comprising:
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an editing processing unit for processing a video signal and an audio signal supplied as source materials;
wherein said editing processing unit comprises;
an image processor for performing an effect process on said video signal;
an audio processor for processing said audio signal;
a matrix switcher for connecting source materials from a plurality of sources to the editing processing unit, thereby providing said video signal to said image processor and said audio signal to said audio processor; and
a system controller for controlling the operation of said matrix switcher, said image processor, and said audio processor in response to commands from a computer and plural dedicated controllers;
a daily server for receiving and storing source materials for editing over a network and acting as one of said plurality of sources to the editing processing unit;
an on-air buffer for storing the processed video signal and the processed audio signal from said editing processing unit for transmission over said network; and
said computer being connected to said network for controlling said editing processing unit, wherein said computer comprises;
controlling means for displaying a viewer window, a log window, and a program window on a display of said computer, the viewer window allowing the editing operator to decide an edit point while viewing a video image of a source material so as to produce an event, the log window displaying a clip image corresponding to an event that is set on the viewer window, the program window allowing the editing operator to arrange a plurality of events on a time line in a desired order so as to produce a program list, and wherein said controlling means displays an icon that represents by what source device each event arranged on the time line is produce; and
wherein said editing apparatus sets audio levels for respective audio tracks corresponding to the events arranged on the time line. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
a data storage unit having a random accessible record medium for recording a source material to be edited, wherein said editing processing unit comprises;
a switcher block for routing source data reproduced from said data storage unit;
video signal processing block for processing a video signal that is output from said switcher block; and
an audio processing block for processing an audio signal that is output from said switcher block, and wherein said controlling means of said computer is programmed by an editing software program for editing a source material recorded in said data storage.
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3. The editing system as set forth in claim 2, wherein said controlling means comprises:
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memory means for storing information that represents a source supplying device that supplies a source material of the event as source information; and
a file manager for managing the source information of each event as a file.
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4. The editing system as set forth in claim 3, wherein said controlling means displays an icon that represents by what source supplying device each event registered on the log window has been produced corresponding to source information that represents the source supplying device stored in the file.
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5. The editing system as set forth in claim 4, wherein the file for the event contains information of at least an event name assigned to the event and time codes of an in-point and an out-point of the event.
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6. The editing system as set forth in claim 5, wherein when an event produced from a source material recorded in the source supplying device is downloaded from the source supplying device to said data storage unit, said controlling means rewrites the source information of the file for the downloaded event from information that represents the source supplying device into information that represents said data storage.
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7. The editing system as set forth in claim 2, wherein said controlling means controls said video signal processing block and said switcher block so as to execute:
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a source material searching process for searching a desired source material from a plurality of source materials stored in the source supplying device;
an event producing process for producing the plurality of events from the searched source material;
a program list producing process for arranging a plurality of events produced by the event producing process in a desired order so as to produce the program list;
a process for producing a final video program corresponding to the produced program list.
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8. The editing system as set forth in claim 7, wherein said controlling means controls said switcher block so as to supply video data of a source material reproduced from the source supplying device to said computer through said video signal processing block and to supply audio data of a source material reproduced from the source supplying device to a speaker through said audio signal processing block.
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9. The editing system as set forth in claim 7, wherein said controlling means performs a downloading process for downloading the source material recorded in the source supplying device to said data storage unit and an editing process for supplying other than the source material stored in said data storage unit to said computer through said video signal processing block and said audio signal processing block so as to edit source materials recorded in the data storage unit, said controlling means performing the downloading process and the editing process at the same time.
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10. The editing system as set forth in claim 5, wherein the editing software program has a time line mode for registering an event and a log mode for registering an event on the log window, wherein said controlling means places a designated event as a video event or an audio event on the time line when the time line mode is set;
- and wherein said controlling means displays a designated event as a clip card on the log window when the log mode is set.
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11. The editing system as set forth in claim 10, wherein display formats of a clip card on the log window are:
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a first display format for displaying a clip image at an in-point or an out-point of the event;
a second display format for displaying clip images at an in-point and an out-point of the event; and
a third display format for displaying a clip image at an in-point and an out-point of the event along with comment data in association with the event, and wherein said controlling means displays a clip card that represents the event in one of the three display formats.
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12. The editing system as set forth in claim 11, wherein the editing software program has two registration modes for registering an event displayed as a clip card on the log window to the time line on the program window, the registration modes being a first mode and a second mode, wherein the first mode allows an event registered on the log window to be registered on the time line with a clicking operation of a pointing device, and wherein the second mode allows an event registered on the log window to be registered on the time line with a drag and drop operation of the pointing device.
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13. The editing system as set forth in claim 12, wherein the time line includes:
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a base video line on which an video event produced from the source material is placed as a base video event;
an audio line on which audio data corresponding to video data-contained in the base event is placed as an audio event;
an effect line on which an effect that is set for the base video event is placed as an effect event; and
an overlay video line on which a video event overlaid to the base video event as an overlay video event when an effect is added to the base video event with the effect event.
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14. The editing system as set forth in claim 13, wherein the program list producing process includes:
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an audio level setting process for setting levels of audio data of a plurality of channels contained in an audio event placed on the audio line; and
an effect setting process for setting a transition effect between two base video events placed on the base video line, setting an animation effect to a base video event placed on the base video line, or setting an effect between a base video event placed on the base video line and an overlay video event placed on the overlay video line.
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15. The editing system as set forth in claim 14, wherein in the audio level setting process, said controlling means displays a dialog that represents a plurality of track faders for controlling audio levels of individual channels of an audio event placed on the time line and correlates the plurality of channels of the audio event with the plurality of track faders on the dialog corresponding to setting performed by the editing operator.
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16. The editing system as set forth in claim 15, wherein in the audio level setting process, said controlling means correlates the plurality of track faders on the dialog with a plurality of manual fader levers disposed on a dedicated controller corresponding to setting performed by the editing operator and changes slider positions of the track faders on the dialog corresponding to the manual fader levers manually operated by the editing operator.
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17. The editing system as set forth in claim 14, wherein in the effect setting process, said controlling means displays an effect setting dialog that represents icons of a plurality of effect patterns and performs the effect setting process when the editing operator selects a desired effect icon displayed on the effect setting dialog and drags and drops the selected effect icon to the effect line.
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18. The editing system as set forth in claim 17, wherein the effect setting dialog has:
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a favorite pattern displaying portion that represents a plurality of effect patterns favorably used by the editing operator; and
a duration setting portion in which the editing operator sets the duration of the selected effect.
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19. The editing system as set forth in claim 18, wherein in the effect setting process, said controlling means controls said switcher block and said video processing block so as to preview the selected effect with video events assigned as a foreground video image and a background video image to said video processing block before placing the selected effect to the time line.
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20. The editing system as set forth in claim 18, wherein in the effect setting process, when the transition effect is set between an event assigned as the background video image and an event assigned as the foreground video image, said controlling means updates an out-point of the event assigned as the background video image corresponding to the duration of the transition effect.
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21. The editing system as set forth in claim 20, wherein in the effect setting process, when the animation effect is set between the base video event and the overlay video event, said controlling means changes the duration of the animation effect or the duration of the overlay video event corresponding to the position of the overlay video event placed on the overlay video line.
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22. The editing system as set forth in claim 21, wherein said controlling means displays a video material of a video event on the viewer window, the video material being placed on the base video line, displays a now line on the time line so as to represent a chronological position of a frame of the video event displayed on the viewer window, and displays flags of an in-point and an out-point on the time line corresponding to a marking operation of an editing point by the editing operator so as to represent the line position as the editing point on the time line.
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23. The editing system as set forth in claim 22, wherein when a video event, an audio event, or an effect event is inserted in a duration that is set with an in-point and an out-point on the time line, said controlling means changes the duration of the inserted event so that the duration that is set with the in-point and the out-point on the time line matches the duration of the event inserted in the duration.
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24. The editing system as set forth in claim 23, wherein when a final video program of which the transition effect is set between a first video event and a second video event is previewed, said controlling means controls said switcher block so as to supply the first video event as a background video image to said video signal processing block before the transition effect is executed, controls said switcher block so as to supply the first video event as a background video image to said video signal processing block and the second video event as a foreground video image to said video signal processing block while the transition effect is being executed, and controls said switcher block so as to supply the second base video event that has been supplied as the foreground video image to said video signal processing block as a background video image to said video signal processing block after the transition effect is executed.
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