Patent ID: 8285120

Claim:
A video material management apparatus comprising: first processing means for displaying on display means a graphical user interface screen which includes an image display section, a time-position information display section for displaying time-position information on a video material continuously from beginning to end, a preview operation unit for previewing the video material, and a scene setting operation unit for setting a certain range of the video material as a scene, wherein the scene setting operation unit includes two sets of buttons operable to select a range of video data, including: in-point and out-point buttons for performing trimming; and scene-in-point and scene-out-point buttons for specifying a start point and an end point of the video material in order to set a range of the video material pertinent to copyright information according to a displayed indicia indicating the video material in the range is copyrighted and permission from the copyright owner is required; second processing means for displaying in said image display section a video material reproduced from recording means and for displaying time-position information on the video material in said time-position information display section in accordance with an operation of said preview operation unit; third processing means for storing the range of the scene based on the setting of the scene in said scene setting operation unit with respect to the video material displayed in said image display section and for displaying the range of the scene discriminatively in said time-position information display section; fourth processing means for displaying on said display means an input section for the input of a comment identifying the copyright information, the comment displayed on the scene set in said scene setting operation unit when an operator places a mouse in the time-position information display section; fifth processing means for storing the comment input into said input section; processing means for displaying on said display means a selection section to perform an operation of selecting a color for displaying the scene set in said scene setting operation unit; and processing means for displaying the range of said scene in said time-position information display section with the color selected in said selection section.