Patent ID: 7020381

Claim:
A video editing apparatus that combines a plurality of image data including at least one motion video image data to generate a series of edited motion video image data, said video editing apparatus comprising: an image data memory that stores the plurality of image data; an effect data memory that stores a plurality of effect data, wherein each of the plurality of effect data specifies an editing effect applicable to one or more of the plurality of image data; an effect setting memory that stores mapping data which represents correspondence between an editing effect name and an effect data specifier specifying one of the plurality of the effect data; an editing management data memory that stores editing management data, which specifies a sequence of the image data and the editing effect name in time series; an image editing unit that applies the editing effect, which is indirectly referred by the editing effect name using the mapping data stored in the effect setting memory, to the image data according to the editing management data and generates the series of edited motion video image data; and a modification unit that enables a user to modify the mapping data stored in said effect setting memory, so as to modify the correspondence between the editing effect name and the effect data specifier.