Patent ID: 6853800

Claim:
A method of recording and indexing video data on a digital cassette having a tape medium and an attached memory, comprising the steps of: generating an index information corresponding to a point on the tape medium where a designated portion of the video data is recorded using a user controlled switch; the index information for use as an index when editing the video data; generating an additional index information corresponding to said index information for specifying an attribute of the designated portion of the video data; selecting a video frame from the designated portion of the video data on the basis of the index information and the additional index information; generating an index picture information from the selected video frame for displaying the selected video frame corresponding to said index information when editing the video data; recording the index information and the additional index information in the attached memory of said digital cassette; wherein the additional index information recorded in the attached memory includes information of an automatically increased scene number; recording the index information and the additional index information in sub-code sections of corresponding recorded tracks throughout the tape medium; each recorded track on the tape medium having a sub-code section; and recording the index picture information on the tape medium.