Patent ID: 6085020
Filing Date: 2000-07-04
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
An editing control apparatus comprising:an AV-information compressing section for accepting various AV-information materials, and for compressing said AV-information materials;an AV-information recording section for recording said AV-information materials compressed by said AV-information compressing section;a task control section having means for specifying desired materials from the various input AV-information materials, means for creating an edit decision list (EDL) by arranging the specified materials in the order that said specified materials are to be played back, means for duplicating the thus created EDL, means for recording the duplicated EDL by appending a different name to it, means for correcting the duplicated EDL, and means for simultaneously reproducing at least a portion of the AV information specified by the uncorrected EDL and at least a portion of the AV information specified by the corrected EDL;an EDL information recording section for recording the EDL created by said task control section; andan AV-information expanding section for expanding said compressed AV information based on the EDL created by said task control section.