Patent ID: 6868228

Claim:
An editing system for encoding a plurality of images or sounds and multiplexing plural encoded data so as to produce recording data which is recorded in a recording medium, said editing system comprising: a system controller; a single storage unit having a plurality of input ports and at least one output port; a plurality of encoding devices for encoding inputted images or sounds, and for successively storing encoded data in a recording area of said single storage unit specified by said system controller through said input ports and for outputting a data amount of the encoded data for every predetermined unit to said system controller; and a multiplexing unit for reading said encoded data to be multiplexed from said single storage unit through said output port so as to produce the multiplexed data, and for storing the multiplexed data in a predetermined recording area of said single storage unit through one of said input ports as recording data; wherein when each of said plurality of encoding devices receives an encode list from said system controller, then each of said plurality of encoding devices requires address information of a recording area of a single storage unit, and thereby said system controller specifies the recording area for each of said plurality of encoding devices and sends information of the specified recording area for each of said plurality of encoding devices.