Patent ID: 6763177
Filing Date: 2004-07-13
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A non-linear video edit system comprising:a nonvolatile random access recorder for storing video data, a read and write means for independently executing write and read of the video data into/from the random access recorder, a selector for selecting either a play output of an external sequential access recorder or a play output of the random access recorder to provide it to an external monitor for display, and a control means for controlling the read and write means and the selector, wherein, when the system carries out an overwriting edit or an insertion edit of a played scene from the external sequential access recorder into a package of a plurality of cut scenes defined by a play list having data of the start and end positions of each video scene already stored in the random access recorder, the control means responds to a first instruction of a user by controlling the selector to switch between the play output of the random access recorder and the play output of the sequential access recorder in accordance with said play list to provide the selected play output to the monitor so as to display the edit result in real time during the writing, and the control means responds to a second instruction of the user during the writing by stopping the operation of displaying the edit result in real time without interrupting the writing, and by playing again the same edit result based on an updated temporary play list reflecting the edit result to provide it to the monitor.