Patent ID: 8090240

Claim:
A video data editing apparatus, comprising: an operation command input unit to accept a user operation command; a storage unit to store video data compressed into a plurality of picture frame groups, each of the plurality of picture frame groups including a plurality of picture frames; and an edit mode controller configured to, make, based on a predetermined-operation command supplied via the operation command input unit, a selection between a group-unit edit point select mode and a frame-unit edit point select mode, a command for selection of a picture frame group of the video data stored in the storage unit is accepted via the operation command input unit to change the currently-selected picture frame group in the group-unit edit point select mode, a command for selection of one frame of a plurality of picture frame groups included in the currently-selected picture frame group is accepted via the operation command input unit to change the currently-selected picture frame in the frame-unit edit point select mode, and set, as an edit point, a picture frame corresponding to the result of selection in the group-unit edit point select mode or a picture frame corresponding to the results of selection in the group- and frame-unit edit point select modes in response to a set command supplied via the operation command input unit.