Patent ID: 7590329

Claim:
A video content editing support system made up of a recording apparatus for recording captured video content data to a recording medium, and an editor terminal apparatus for displaying said video content data supplied from said recording apparatus, the system comprising: a mark table for converting electronic mark data associated with said video content data into electronic shot mark data on a one-to-one correspondence basis; a recording unit for writing both said electronic mark data and said electronic shot mark data to said video content data, wherein the electronic mark data is recorded in text form and represents a characteristic of at least one video scene of the video content data; and an extraction unit for extracting video data based on said electronic shot mark data written to said video content data, wherein the electronic shot mark data in numeric code is recorded to the video content data, and wherein the electronic mark data in text form having a one-to-one correspondence to the electronic shot mark data is also recorded to the video content data.