Patent ID: 7694213

Claim:
A video content creating apparatus, having a storage for storing a plurality of photographic image data and meta-information including region information including coordinate data and size data of one or more regions individually set to each photographic image data, which creates a video content by use of said photographic image data and the meta-information associated therewith, comprising: a retriever for retrieving photographic image data from said storage by use of said meta-information; and a GUI displayer for displaying a GUI screen including a photograph displaying area for displaying a photograph according to the photographic image data retrieved by said retriever, a thumbnail image display area to display a thumbnail image according to said photographic image data, and a reproduction order setting area including a photograph list section, wherein by dragging and dropping a thumbnail image displayed in said thumbnail image display area toward said photograph list section, a plurality of photographs to be actually used are selected out of said retrieved photographic image data, by changing the list registration order in said photograph list section, a reproduction order of said plurality of photographs is changed, further comprising: a photograph displayer for reading the photographic image data of said photograph listed in the list section and the meta-information associated therewith from said storage and displaying the photograph in said photograph displaying area; and a creator for creating a series of video content by editing according to the meta-information the photographic image data read by said photograph displaying means, wherein said creator includes a determiner for determining whether or not region information is included in the meta-information associated with the photographic image data read by said photograph displayer, and an aligner for aligning an image of a region indicated by said region information according to said coordinate data and said size data included in the region information within said photograph displaying area when said determiner determines that said region information is included in said meta-information, further comprising a saver for saving the generated video content into a recording medium.