Patent ID: 8213772

Claim:
An editing apparatus for performing editing in which a second video is added to or inserted into a first video, said apparatus comprising: an editing unit for performing said editing; a generating unit for generating a first electronic mark indicating a characteristic of said first video, as an edited video electronic mark, which is an electronic mark indicating characteristics of an edited video obtained as the result of said editing; a detecting unit for detecting the first electronic mark; a determining unit for determining whether the first electronic mark is an invalid electronic mark, wherein the detected first electronic mark is determined to be an invalid electronic mark when (1) the detected first electronic mark is detected between an in point position and an end position of the first video in a case where an ending position of the second video is not between a start position of the first video or an end position of the first video, or (2) the detected first electronic mark is between an in point position and an out point position of the first video in a case where an ending position of the second video is between a start position of the first video and an end position of the first video; a deleting unit for deleting said invalid electronic mark from said edited video electronic marks.