Patent ID: 8244104

Claim:
A content project creating method comprising the steps of: selecting a template from a plurality of templates, each template containing a setting of a scene arrangement of a plurality of scenes of content; producing scene setting data for a scene included in the edited template by setting details of the scene using existing material data or newly created data; providing for recording video image data on a CD-format disk for each of a plurality of takes of a particular scene, said CD-format disk having a file allocation table; displaying for selection on the video display of an image data recorder a piece of the video image data corresponding to each of the plurality of takes of the particular scene, the piece of the video image data for each of the plurality of takes of the particular scene being displayed simultaneously in the video display of the image data recorder; selecting on the video display one of the displayed plurality of takes for the particular scene; displaying in the video display of the image data recorder the selected take for each of the plurality of scenes, the selected takes being displayed in the scene arrangement of the selected template; subsequently editing the scene setting data; associating music data of a specified length of time with the particular scene; and outputting content project data constructed by managing the edited scene setting data on the basis of the scene arrangement set in the edited template, wherein the template is a scene arrangement sequence for the plurality of scenes set in advance for a story structure of the video content and prior to editing, wherein the specified length of time of the music data is automatically corrected when the period of the particular scene is changed.