JP2005236906A - Video edition assisting method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a video edition assisting method which assists an editor to quickly find a desired video scene. <P>SOLUTION: During imaging, electronic mark data optionally attached by a user to notified video scenes, etc. or electronic mark data automatically attached by an imaging apparatus to distinctive video scenes are related to video contents and stored on media 116. An edition assisting apparatus makes the user select desired electronic mark data, indicates a thumbnail list of video related to the selected electronic mark data, and supports the user to find desired video scenes while seeing the thumbnail list. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a video editing support method.

  In recent years, when editing video, so-called non-linear editing technology for recording video on a hard disk or the like and editing the recorded video has been widely used.

  Also, the video data recorded in one of the recording / reproducing means can be recorded and reproduced by controlling the recording operation and the reproducing operation of the first and second recording / reproducing means provided in the recording / reproducing apparatus under the control of the computer. There is also an editing system in which editing material dubbing and final video program dubbing can be efficiently performed only by recording in the means and inputting the instruction information through the computer user interface means (for example, patents). Reference 1). According to the above system, for example, the source video data recorded on the second recording medium brought in from the outside can be easily dubbed to the first recording medium as the editing material and generated as a result of the editing. The video data of the final video program can be easily dubbed from the first recording medium to a second recording medium used at the time of broadcasting, for example.

International Publication No. 98/29873 Pamphlet

  However, in order to edit a video so as to include a desired video scene, the editor has to watch the video many times, and there is a problem that it takes time.

  Accordingly, the present invention has been made in view of such problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a video editing support method that enables an editor to quickly find a desired video scene. is there.

  In order to solve the above-described problem, according to an aspect of the present invention, a video editing support method for supporting video content editing work via a playback screen is provided. The video editing support method includes a step of associating a plurality of types of electronic mark data with the video content, a step of displaying a list of types of the electronic mark data on the playback screen, and a list of the types. A step of displaying a thumbnail of the video content associated with the electronic mark data corresponding to the selected type on the reproduction screen; and a step of displaying the video content corresponding to the thumbnail on the reproduction screen.

  According to the above invention, the user associates appropriate electronic mark data with a desired video scene in advance, and selects a type corresponding to the electronic mark data from a list of types of electronic mark data displayed on the playback screen. As a result, the thumbnail of the video content associated with the electronic mark data can be viewed. Therefore, a desired video scene can be easily and quickly found from the thumbnails.

  The electronic mark data may be associated with an identifier for identifying an arbitrary frame of the video content, and the thumbnail of the video content may be a thumbnail of the frame.

  The video content may include a plurality of video contents of one take, and may further include a step of displaying a list of thumbnails of the video content of the one take on the playback screen. According to such a configuration, the user can grasp the outline of the video content by browsing the thumbnails of the video content of each take without having to reproduce and view the video content. One take is a continuous imaging process from the start to the end of one recording.

  The method may further include a step of creating a playlist capable of identifying a desired playback portion of the video content, and a step of displaying a thumbnail of the video content related to the playback portion on the playback screen based on the playback list. . According to such a configuration, the user can grasp the outline of the video content by browsing the thumbnail of the desired reproduction portion without actually reproducing and viewing the thumbnail.

  As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide a video editing support method that enables an editor to quickly find a desired video scene.

  Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the present specification and drawings, components having substantially the same functional configuration are denoted by the same reference numerals, and redundant description is omitted.

  First, an editing support apparatus capable of implementing the video editing support method according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.

  Examples of the editing support device that can implement the video editing support method according to the present embodiment include an imaging device 102, a first playback device 104, and a second playback device 106, as shown in FIG.

  The imaging device 102 is a video recording device with an imaging function, and is a video camera including a so-called camcorder. The imaging apparatus 102 digitizes the captured video (including images and audio) using a compression method such as a DV compression method, a DVCAM compression method, or an MPEG-IMX compression method, and the digitized video content is transferred to the medium 116. Record. Alternatively, the image data may be transmitted to a first playback device 104 or a second playback device 106 described later, or may be recorded on the hard disk if the imaging device 102 includes a hard disk. Note that a plurality of the video contents can be recorded on the medium 116 or the hard disk. Specifically, for example, the imaging apparatus 102 starts imaging and once completes imaging. Thereafter, imaging is started again and ended. Each time such an operation is performed, one take video, which is a continuous imaging process from the start to the end of imaging, that is, from the start to the end of one recording, becomes one video content and is recorded on the media 116 or the like. . As a result, a plurality of video contents are recorded on the medium 116 or the like. Hereinafter, one video content generated from one take video is referred to as a clip.

  Further, the imaging apparatus 102 can record additional information such as the recording date and time of the video content and the recording time of the recorded video content on the medium 116 or the like. In addition, electronic mark data used when implementing the video editing support method according to the present embodiment can be recorded on the medium 116 or the like in association with the video content. Hereinafter, the electronic mark data is referred to as an essence mark. The essence mark will be described later. Further, the imaging apparatus 102 may create a compressed video content having a lower resolution than the video content from the video content. Since the compressed video content has low image quality but a small capacity, it can be easily transmitted to the first playback device 104, the second playback device 106, etc., and can also be recorded on the media 116 together with the video content. For example, the MPEG4 compression method can be used to create the compressed video content.

  As described above, the imaging apparatus 102 can record additional information, an essence mark, a compressed video content, and the like on the media 116 or the like in addition to the video content for one video content, in other words, one clip. Those data are recorded in a format as shown in FIG. 12, for example.

  As shown in FIG. 12, each piece of data relating to one clip can be stored in a folder for each clip. For example, reference numeral 154 in the figure is a folder in which each piece of data relating to the clip with the clip number 0001 is stored. Under the additional information file 155 in which additional information of the clip is recorded, a video (image) portion of the video content is included. The recorded video file 156, the audio file 158 in which the audio (audio) portion of the video content is recorded, the compressed video file 160 in which the compressed video content is recorded, the essence mark file 162 in which the essence mark is recorded, etc. Is stored. A folder indicated by reference numeral 152 stores a plurality of folders for each clip, such as reference numeral 154.

  The imaging device 102 includes a monitor 110 and a viewfinder 108 on which an imaging target is displayed. The imaging device 102 may have a video content playback function in addition to the imaging and video recording functions. In that case, the monitor 110 and the viewfinder 108 can also display the reproduced video. Therefore, in the imaging device 102, the video to be edited can be displayed on the monitor 110, the viewfinder 108, etc., and the video editing support method according to the present embodiment can be implemented.

  The medium 116 is a recording medium capable of recording the video content, additional information of the video content, essence marks, and compressed video content. Examples of the medium 116 include optical disks such as large-capacity / next-generation optical disks, DVDs (Digital Versatile Discs), and CDs (Compact Discs). The medium 116 is preferably an optical disk, but may be a randomly accessible magneto-optical disk such as MO (Magnet-Optical Disk) or flexible disk, or a semiconductor memory such as RAM or ROM. If it is an optical disk, a magneto-optical disk, or a semiconductor memory, each data can be stored in the format shown in FIG.

  The first playback device 104 and the second playback device 106 are, for example, a PC (Personal Computer), a television receiver, a DVD playback device, etc., and read the media 116 on which the video content is recorded or the DV of the imaging device 102. It has a function of playing back video content in the media or in the hard disk of the imaging device 102 by being connected to a terminal. Therefore, in the first playback device 104 or the second playback device 106, the video to be edited can be displayed on the displays 112, 114 and the video editing support method according to the present embodiment can be implemented.

  In the foregoing, the editing support apparatus capable of implementing the video editing support method has been described. Next, the essence mark will be described with reference to FIG.

  The essence mark is electronic mark data and is used when the video editing support method according to the present embodiment is performed. The essence mark is metadata representing an index related to video content at the time of imaging, for example. Therefore, the essence mark becomes an index of the video content video, and it is possible to grasp what video the video content video is without performing the playback processing of the video content. Note that the essence mark is not limited to the video content video, and may be an audio index of the video content, for example.

  The essence mark can be transmitted by SDI (Serial Digital Interface) or the like according to the method defined by the SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) standard.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the essence mark according to the present embodiment is determined as a reserved word in advance. As the essence mark, “_RecStart” (imaging start mark) at the recording start position, “_RecEnd” (imaging end mark) at the recording end position, and the mark position is designated by pressing a predetermined button of the cameraman during imaging. “_ShotMark1” (shot mark 1) indicating a point in time to be noted, an arbitrary position “_ShotMark2” (shot mark 2) indicating a point in time other than “_ShotMark1”, and a mark set at the time of editing Yes, “_Cut” (cut mark) indicating the cut position set at the joint of the image, “_Flash” (flash mark) as the flash detection position, and the change position of the lens filter of the imaging apparatus 101 “_FilterChange” and imaging device 1 “_ShutterSpeedChange” (shutter change mark) indicating the change position of the electronic shutter speed of 1 CCD (imaging device), “_GainChange” (gain change mark) that is the gain change position, and white balance change position “_WhiteBalanceChange” (white balance mark), “_OverBrightness” at a position where the video output level exceeds the limit value, “_OverAudioLimiter” (high volume mark) at a position where the audio (audio) output level exceeds the limit value, “_In-XXX” (edit start mark) indicating the cut start position used when extracting the video cut, and “_Out-XXX” (edit) indicating the cut end position used when extracting the video cut. And completion mark), shows a representative image cut in the video content "_KeyFrame" having such as (representative cut mark). Note that the essence mark according to the present embodiment is not limited to such an example, and may be implemented even if it is a part of the essence mark or when it is newly added.

As the timing at which the essence mark shown in FIG. 2 is recorded, the relative position in the video content is as described below. “_RecStart” is a frame at the recording start point of the video content, “_RecEnd” is a frame at the recording end point of the video content, “_ShotMark1” and “_ShotMark2” are the imaging device 102 based on the user's designation, etc. “_Cut” is a frame of the cut detection point, “_Flash” is a frame of the point where the flash is detected, “_FilterChange” is a frame of the lens filter change point, “_ShutterSpeedChange” is a frame at a shutter speed change point, “_GainChange” is a frame at a gain change point, “_WhiteBalanceChange” is a frame at a white balance change point, and “_O ErBrightness "is a frame of a point where the video output level exceeds the limit value," _ OverAudioLimiter "is a frame at the point where the audio output level exceeds the limit value," _ In-XXX ",
“_Out-XXX” and “_KeyFrame” are frames at designated positions from the imaging device 102 or the like based on the designation of the user.

  In “XXX” of “_In-XXX” and “_Out-XXX”, for example, each time an In point or Out point is added, a number or alphabet is numbered in the sequence. That is, it can be exemplified as "_In-001", "_In-002", ..., "_In-003".

  In the essence mark file 162 described above, an identifier such as a frame number of the frame to which the essence mark is attached at the above timing and the essence mark attached to the frame are recorded in association with each other. Further, the date and time when the essence mark is attached to the frame may be recorded in association with each frame number.

  Therefore, by using the essence mark described in the video content when the video editing support method according to the present embodiment is implemented, it is possible to quickly find the target video scene. Specifically, for example, the user can arbitrarily add an essence mark such as shot mark 1 to a frame in the vicinity of the video scene to be noticed at the time of imaging. Therefore, when editing, search for a frame to which the essence mark is attached. Thus, it is possible to easily find a video scene to be noticed. In addition, essence marks such as a high volume mark and a flash mark that are automatically added to the frame by the imaging apparatus 102 indicate that the video near the frame to which the essence mark is attached has different characteristics from other parts. Therefore, it can be useful when searching for a video having such characteristics during editing.

  The essence mark has been described above. Next, the video editing support method according to the present embodiment will be described in detail with reference to FIGS.

  Below, the case where the video editing support method is implemented in the imaging apparatus 102 which is an example of the editing support apparatus according to the present embodiment will be described.

  The imaging apparatus 102 first associates a plurality of types of essence marks with video content. Specifically, as described above, the essence mark and the frame identifier are associated with each other and recorded in the essence mark file 162 in order to give an appropriate essence mark to the frame at a specific timing or at the time of imaging.

  Thereafter, in step S102, the imaging apparatus 102 reproduces the video content recorded on the medium 116, and the video is reproduced on the monitor 110, for example. FIG. 4 shows an example of a state in which video content is being played on the playback screen 402 of the monitor 110. Usually, a plurality of clips recorded in the medium are sequentially played back in the order of recording.

  In this state, when the user presses a predetermined button of the imaging device 102, the imaging device 102 causes the user to select whether to search for an essence mark (EM in the drawing) in the clip currently being played back (S104). When the user knows that the target video scene is in the clip currently being played, the target video scene can be quickly and efficiently searched by searching for a frame with an essence mark in the clip. Can be found.

  When a user presses a predetermined button to display an essence mark selection screen in a state where a specific clip (for example, a clip of clip number 0001, hereinafter referred to as clip 1) is reproduced (S106), the imaging apparatus 102 The essence mark selection screen is displayed on the playback screen 402 of the monitor 110 (S108). FIG. 5 is an example of an essence mark selection screen displayed on the playback screen 402 when searching for a frame with an essence mark in a specific clip. An essence mark selection list 502, which is an example of a list of essence mark types that can be associated with a frame, is displayed on the reproduced video.

  The user selects a desired essence mark from the essence mark selection list 502 (S110), and presses a predetermined button to determine the selection (S112). The imaging device 102 displays a thumbnail list of frames with the selected essence mark in the clip 1 on the playback screen 402 (S114). Specifically, for example, the imaging apparatus 102 uses the essence mark selected by the user from the essence mark selection list 502 as a key, and the essence mark in the folder for each clip in which data related to the clip 1 is stored in the medium 116. The file is searched and all the frame numbers recorded in association with the essence mark are acquired. Thereafter, a frame corresponding to the frame number is acquired from the compressed video file based on the acquired frame number, and a thumbnail is created by compressing the frame. Thumbnails are similarly created for all of the acquired frame numbers, and the created thumbnails are displayed in a list on the playback screen 402. Note that the thumbnail may be created by acquiring the corresponding frame from the video file, but the thumbnail can be created more quickly by using a compressed video file with a small capacity.

  FIG. 6 shows an example of a state in which the thumbnail list is displayed on the playback screen 402. Since the essence mark “SHOT MARK2” is selected in the essence mark selection list of FIG. 5 in step S112, thumbnails 610a to 610l corresponding to the frames with the shot mark 2 are displayed on the playback screen 402 of FIG. ing. Reference numeral 602 denotes the type of essence mark associated with the frame corresponding to the thumbnail. With this display, the user can know what the currently displayed thumbnail is.

  Reference numeral 604 indicates the selected thumbnail / total number of thumbnails. That is, the number of frames with the essence mark selected by the user in step S112 is present in clip 1 and the number of thumbnails currently selected by the user in all frames is displayed. According to the example of FIG. 6, there are 31 frames with the shot mark 2 in the clip 1, and the thumbnail 610f currently selected by the user corresponds to the sixth frame therein. It is a thumbnail.

  Although only 12 thumbnails 610a to 610l are displayed on the playback screen 402, the remaining 19 thumbnails can be sequentially displayed on the playback screen 402 by pressing a predetermined button or the like. is there. In this embodiment, the display order of thumbnails is in ascending order of frame numbers and is in time series of imaging. However, the display order of thumbnails is not limited to this example, and can be arbitrarily set. By such display, the user can immediately know how many frames have a desired essence mark. In particular, if the medium 116 is a randomly accessible optical disk or magneto-optical disk, the imaging apparatus 102 can quickly perform processing such as acquisition of the total number of frames with essence marks by directly accessing desired data. it can.

  Reference numeral 606 denotes the recording date and time of the frame corresponding to the selected thumbnail. The imaging apparatus 102 can perform such display by referring to the additional information file in the folder for each clip in which data related to the clip 1 is stored in the medium 116. In addition, the date and time when the essence mark was recorded in the frame may be displayed with reference to the essence mark file instead of the frame recording date and time.

  Reference numeral 608 denotes a frame counter corresponding to the selected thumbnail. Specifically, for example, the elapsed time from the start of recording of the clip 1 until the frame is recorded is shown. Alternatively, the elapsed time from the start of recording of the first clip of the medium 116 may be indicated as a counter in all clips in the medium 116.

  When the user selects a desired thumbnail from the thumbnail list on the playback screen 402 (S116), the selected thumbnail is selected and displayed as shown in FIG. 6 (S118). When a predetermined button is pressed to display a frame corresponding to the thumbnail selected by the user on the reproduction screen 402 (S120), the corresponding frame is displayed on the entire reproduction screen 402 (S122). Specifically, for example, the imaging apparatus 102 acquires a frame corresponding to the selected thumbnail from the video file in the folder for each clip in which data related to the clip 1 is stored in the medium 116 and displays the frame on the playback screen 402. To do. FIG. 7 shows an example of a state in which the frame corresponding to the thumbnail selected by the user in FIG. Thereafter, the imaging apparatus 102 may start playing the video from the frame. When the imaging apparatus 102 performs the video editing support method according to the present embodiment as described above, the user can quickly and easily find the target video scene while viewing the thumbnail corresponding to the frame with the essence mark. Can do.

  If it is determined in step S104 that the user does not search for an essence mark in the clip being reproduced, the process proceeds to step S124. In step S <b> 124, the imaging apparatus 102 selects whether to search for the essence mark from the entire medium 116 or from the edit list. The edit list is an example of a reproduction list that can identify a desired reproduction portion of the video content, and is created in advance by the user. In other words, a video scene that the user wants to play back is arbitrarily extracted from a plurality of video contents recorded on the medium 116, and the playback order is listed. Specifically, for example, the extracted video scene belongs. This is a list in which a clip number specifying a clip and the start frame number and end frame number of the video scene are set as one set, and the set is arranged in the order of playback in the number of scenes to be played back. Note that the edit list can be created using the edit start mark “_In-XXX” and the edit end mark “_Out-XXX” of the essence mark. In this case, the edit list includes the start frame number, The edit start mark and edit end mark can be used instead of the end frame number.

  Hereinafter, video content corresponding to one video scene divided by an arbitrary start frame number, end frame number or edit start mark, and edit end mark is referred to as a sub-clip to distinguish it from a clip indicating one take video content.

  When the imaging apparatus 102 reproduces video content according to the edit list, the clip number and start frame number, end frame number or edit start mark, and edit end mark recorded in the edit list are referred to in the medium 116. By acquiring the corresponding start frame of the video file in the folder in which the corresponding clip data is stored, it is possible to reproduce from the start frame to the end frame. Alternatively, a sub clip may be created from a video file in advance and stored separately from the video file in the medium 116, and used during playback.

  In step S 124, when the user searches for a frame with an essence mark from the entire medium 116, the user first presses a predetermined button to display thumbnails of the first images of all clips in the medium 116 on the playback screen 402. The button is pressed (S126). The imaging device 102 displays the top images of all the clips in the medium 116 on the playback screen 402 (S128). Specifically, for example, the first frame of each clip is acquired from the compressed video content, and a thumbnail image is created and displayed.

  FIG. 8 shows an example of a state in which a list of head images of each clip in the medium 116 is displayed on the playback screen 402. The thumbnails 810a to 810l are thumbnails of the first frame of each clip in the medium 116. Although only 12 clips are displayed on the playback screen 402, when 13 or more clips are recorded in the media 116, thumbnails of the first frame of the remaining clips are displayed by pressing a predetermined button or the like. The images can be sequentially displayed on the reproduction screen 402. By displaying the top image of each clip, the user can grasp the outline of the video recorded on the medium 116 without actually reproducing and viewing the video.

  Reference numeral 802 indicates that the displayed thumbnail is the first frame of each clip. With this display, the user can know what the currently displayed thumbnail is. Reference numeral 804 indicates the selected thumbnail / total number of thumbnails.

  Reference numeral 806 denotes the recording date and time of the clip starting from the first frame corresponding to the selected thumbnail, and reference numeral 808 denotes the recording time of the clip starting from the first frame corresponding to the selected thumbnail. The imaging apparatus 102 can perform such display by referring to the additional information file in the folder for each clip in which data related to the clip starting from the first frame is stored in the medium 116.

  Thereafter, when the user presses a predetermined button to display the essence mark selection screen in step S106, the essence mark selection screen is displayed in step S108 as described above. FIG. 9 is an example of an essence mark selection screen displayed on the playback screen 402 when searching for a frame with an essence mark from the entire medium 116. This is almost the same as when searching from a specific clip, except that an essence mark selection list 502 is displayed on the thumbnail displayed on the display screen 402 in FIG.

  The subsequent processing is different from the case where the frame with the essence mark is searched from the specific clip described above, and the point that the search target of the frame is not the specific clip but the entire medium 116. The displayed items are almost the same.

  If the user searches for a frame with an essence mark in the edit list instead of the entire medium 116 in step S124, the user first sets the edit list mode by pressing a predetermined button, etc. A predetermined button is pressed to display the thumbnail of the top image of the sub clip on the playback screen 402 (S134). The imaging apparatus 102 displays the top image of the sub clip on the playback screen 402 according to the edit list (S136). Specifically, for example, the first frame of each sub clip is acquired from the compressed video content, and a thumbnail image is created and displayed.

  FIG. 10 shows an example of a state in which a list of head images of each sub clip defined in the edit list is displayed on the playback screen 402. Although only 12 thumbnails are displayed on the playback screen 402, when 13 or more subclips are defined in the edit list, the first frame of the remaining subclips is pressed by pressing a predetermined button or the like. Can be sequentially displayed on the playback screen 402. By displaying the top image of each sub clip, the user can grasp the outline of the video to be played according to the edit list without actually playing it. Also, if the user can search for a frame with an essence mark from the edit list, the user can search for a target video scene only for a portion to be reproduced that has been previously extracted from the video content in the media 116. Efficient.

  Reference numeral 902 indicates that the displayed thumbnail is the first frame of the sub clip. With this display, the user can know what the currently displayed thumbnail is. Reference numeral 904 indicates the selected thumbnail / total number of thumbnails.

  Reference numeral 906 indicates the recording date and time of the sub clip starting from the frame corresponding to the selected thumbnail. The imaging apparatus 102 refers to the edit list, acquires the clip number to which the sub clip starting from the frame belongs, and refers to the additional information file in the folder for each clip in which the data related to the clip is stored. Such a display can be performed.

  Reference numeral 808 denotes the recording time of the sub clip starting from the frame corresponding to the selected thumbnail.

  Thereafter, when the user presses a predetermined button to display the essence mark selection screen in step S106, the essence mark selection screen is displayed in step S108 as described above. FIG. 11 shows an example of an essence mark selection screen displayed on the playback screen 402 when searching for a frame with an essence mark from the edit list. This is almost the same as when searching from a specific clip, except that an essence mark selection list 502 is displayed on the thumbnail displayed on the display screen 402 in FIG.

  The subsequent processing differs from the case where the frame with the essence mark is searched from the specific clip described above and the point that the search target of the frame is not in the specific clip but in the edit list. The displayed items are almost the same.

  The video editing support method according to the present embodiment has been described above. Note that the video editing method can be implemented not only by the imaging device 102 but also by the first playback device 104, the second playback device 114, and the like. In that case, the user may press a predetermined button as described above in order to proceed with the process, may click with a pointing device such as a mouse, or may perform voice input. .

  In the above description, the image capturing apparatus 102 displays thumbnails, frames, and the like based on data recorded on the medium 116. However, the present invention is not limited to this example, and the image capturing apparatus 102 is provided instead of the medium 116. Data may be stored on the hard disk and displayed based on the data stored on the hard disk.

  As mentioned above, although preferred embodiment of this invention was described referring an accompanying drawing, it cannot be overemphasized that this invention is not limited to the example which concerns. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications can be made within the scope of the claims, and these are naturally within the technical scope of the present invention. Understood.

  The present invention can be applied to a video editing support method, and in particular, can be applied to a video editing method capable of finding a desired video scene without repeatedly viewing the video.

It is explanatory drawing which shows the edit assistance apparatus which can implement the video editing assistance method concerning this embodiment of this invention. It is explanatory drawing which shows the essence mark in the same embodiment. It is a flowchart of the video editing support method in the same embodiment. It is explanatory drawing which shows the screen displayed at the time of implementation of the video editing assistance method in the embodiment. It is explanatory drawing which shows the screen displayed at the time of implementation of the video editing assistance method in the embodiment. It is explanatory drawing which shows the screen displayed at the time of implementation of the video editing assistance method in the embodiment. It is explanatory drawing which shows the screen displayed at the time of implementation of the video editing assistance method in the embodiment. It is explanatory drawing which shows the screen displayed at the time of implementation of the video editing assistance method in the embodiment. It is explanatory drawing which shows the screen displayed at the time of implementation of the video editing assistance method in the embodiment. It is explanatory drawing which shows the screen displayed at the time of implementation of the video editing assistance method in the embodiment. It is explanatory drawing which shows the screen displayed at the time of implementation of the video editing assistance method in the embodiment. It is explanatory drawing which showed the recording format of the data utilized at the time of implementation of the video editing assistance method in the embodiment.

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DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 102 Imaging device 104 1st reproducing | regenerating apparatus 106 2nd reproducing | regenerating apparatus 108 Viewfinder 110 Monitor 112,114 Display 116 Media

Claims (4)

A video editing support method for supporting video content editing via a playback screen, which includes:
Associating a plurality of types of electronic mark data with the video content;
Displaying a list of types of the electronic mark data on the reproduction screen;
Displaying a thumbnail of video content associated with electronic mark data corresponding to the type selected from the type list on the playback screen;
Displaying the video content corresponding to the thumbnail on the playback screen;
A video editing support method characterized by comprising: The video editing support method according to claim 1, wherein the electronic mark data is associated with an identifier for identifying an arbitrary frame of the video content, and the thumbnail of the video content is a thumbnail of the frame. The video content includes a plurality of video contents of one take,
2. The video editing support method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of displaying a list of thumbnails of the one-take video content on the playback screen. Creating a playlist capable of identifying a desired playback portion of the video content;
2. The video editing support method according to claim 1, further comprising displaying a thumbnail of video content related to the playback portion on the playback screen based on the playback list.

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