Patent ID: 7054541

Claim:
A method of editing a first and a second digital video information signal hi an edit apparatus, the first and second digital video information signals being the seine signal or different signals, the first and second digital video information signals being recorded on the same or different record carriers, the method comprising: first reading a first block of information of the first digital information signal that is located around an edit point to be determined in the first digital information signal from the record carrier into an internal memory of the apparatus, wherein size of the first block of information is within a predetermined range, first outputting the first block of information from the apparatus, for display, first establishing an “out” position in the first block of information as the edit point in the first digital video information signal, second reading a second block of information of the second digital video information signal that is located around an edit point to be determined in the second digital video information signal from the record carrier into the internal memory of the apparatus, wherein size of the second block of information is within die predetermined range, second outputting the second block of information of the second digital video information signal from tho apparatus, for display, second establishing an “in” position in the second block of information as the edit point in the second digital video information signal, processing a portion of the first block of information that precedes and may include the “out” position, and a portion of the second block of information that follows and may include the “in” position into a composite block of information, such that a resulting size of the composite block of information is within the predetermined range, third outputting die composite block of information from the apparatus, for display, recording at least a portion of the composite block of information on the record carrier after the outputting for display.