Patent ID: 6324335
Filing Date: 2001-11-27
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
An editing system for editing source video data, comprising:a recording/reproducing device for recording said source video data on a random access recording medium as well as reproducing the source video data recorded on said recording medium; anda computer for performing editing operation to form an editing period in a final video program by editing said source video data with controlling said recording/reproducing device; whereinsaid computer comprises,a control device for setting reproducing speed when reproducing the source video data recorded on said recording medium;memory means for storing data regarding the reproducing speed set by said control device connectedly with the time information of said source video data, andcontrol means for controlling the reproducing speed of said recording/reproducing device based on the time information and the reproducing speed data stored in said memory means, wherein:said time information is time code data added to each frame of said source video data;said editing period is an event composed of an in point showing an editing starting point and an out point showing an editing stopping point; andsaid control means stores said time code data and said reproducing speed data connectedly with each other to store the transition of speed in time axis direction set by the operation of said control device to the video data of the in point and the out point of said event.