JP2005130525A - Moving image editing method and moving image editing apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a long time from being required for finding out an M-icon actually used for editing or searching a required scene or to prevent oversight of the icon or scene in the case of time-sequentially displaying M-icons indicative of contents when a file (moving image) recorded in a magnetic storage device is read out for editing. <P>SOLUTION: The present invention comprises a function for specifying an M-icon (cut) including a frame to be detected out of a plurality of M-icons by image processing, and a function for designating a method of displaying (a way of arranging) M-icons. Thus, a group of semantic phases (ordinarily indicative of respective scenes) can be specified, thereby editing efficiency is improved. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a moving image editing apparatus used for moving image production such as television broadcast program production and video program production.

  In the production of television broadcast programs and video programs, the enhancement of functionality by using computers is rapidly progressing. In recent years, video information is not stored on video tape recorders, but repetitively fast-forwarding and rewinding using a tape counter. Video information is stored in a hard-accessible storage device such as a hard disk that is inexpensive and easy to handle and save. A method of editing by storing the image is used in a moving image editing apparatus. Here, the video information is all information related to video including audio.

  FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of the configuration of a conventional moving image editing apparatus. 301 is a CPU, 302 is a memory, 303 is a cut change point detection unit, 304 is a VTR, 305 is a video interface, 306 is a magnetic storage device, 307 is a frame buffer, 308 is a monitor, 309 is an input device, and 310 is a bus . The memory 302, the cut change point detection unit 303, the video interface 305, the magnetic storage device 306, the frame buffer 307, the monitor 308, and the input device 309 are connected to the CPU 301 through the bus 310, and the VTR 304 is connected to the video interface 305. . In FIG. 3, a CPU 301 sends and receives signals to and from components connected by a bus 310, and the components are controlled by an access signal from the CPU 301. An instruction to the CPU 301 is given by an operator using an input device (mouse or keyboard) 309. The VTR 304 reproduces a series of moving images composed of a plurality of scenes, and sends the reproduced moving images to the video interface 305. The video interface 305 converts the received moving image into a format that can be handled by the moving image editing apparatus, and sends the converted moving image to the cut change point detection unit 303, the memory 302, and the magnetic storage device 306. The cut change point detection unit 303 detects a cut change point from the received moving image. The memory 302 stores various control programs for the CPU 301. The CPU 301 includes a frame number of the detected cut change point, an M-icon (Moving Icon), an M-icon file name, a cut number, a sequence number, and control information for controlling them. Are stored in the magnetic storage device 306.

  Image data constituting a moving image recorded in a magnetic storage device or the like can be defined as a set of a plurality of scenes. “Cut” is defined as a set of frame images shot in a section from the start to the end of one shooting operation with the camera. In this moving image editing apparatus, the M-icon has a GUI that has a one-to-one correspondence with the frame image in this section. Here, the “M-icon” is used for high-speed display and reduced display in accordance with the image size displayed as the representative image of cut when the entire moving image or scene composed of a plurality of frames is displayed at high speed. It is an image. A “scene” is a set of a plurality of cuts that photograph a certain photographing object. A plurality of scenes can be further grouped as a specific shooting theme (program). As described above, the video material is a hierarchical video data such as a movie having a plurality of cuts, a scene in which the plurality of cuts are combined, and a shooting theme (or title) in which the scenes are combined. Can be organized as The frame number, the cut number, and the sequence number data are arranged in this hierarchical structure, and the control information includes these hierarchical structure information. Here, the cut number is a number assigned serially to a cut made up of a plurality of frames. The sequence number is a number representing the order of a plurality of cuts constituting the scene.

  The monitor 308 is a GUI (Graphical User Interface) screen that displays scenes, cuts, and hierarchical structure (tree structure) information indicating editing states used for moving image editing. The operator can use this screen to switch from the input device 309 to the moving image editing device. Give instructions. The frame buffer 307 stores an image to be displayed on the monitor 308.

With the above apparatus, moving images can be stored and managed in such a hierarchical structure, and an operator can perform editing work in units of scenes and cuts.
As a means for detecting the cut change point, for example, as disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2-184181, the illuminance, volume, color tone, and the like between the images are analyzed, and a portion where this change is significant is changed in the cut. Some are detected as dots.

Further, for example, Japanese Patent Application No. 09-96131 describes an operation of the editing apparatus described above and a method of performing editing while creating a tree structure using an M-icon (display image).
FIG. 2 is an example of an editing screen displayed on the monitor 308 when a news program is assumed as an editing material as a specific example, and another news program is created for each content (for example, a digest is created). is there. 100 is an editing window, 101 is an editing area, 102 is a material area, 103 is an M-icon, 104 is a tree structure of an M-icon representing editing contents, 105 is an editing function button group, and 107 is a display screen in the horizontal direction. Sliders 108 and 109 slide the display screen vertically, 121 is an M-icon representing a cut being edited, 122 is an M-icon representing a scene, and 123 is an M-icon representing a set of specific scenes. An icon 124 is an M-icon representing a program.

  In the tree structure 104 of the M-icons in the editing area 101, a plurality of M-icons 121 representing cuts being edited are assembled to form an M-icon 122 representing a scene at the top of the hierarchy. A plurality of M-icons 122 representing the scene are collected to form an M-icon 123 representing a specific set of scenes at the top of the hierarchy, and finally a plurality of M-icons 123 representing the specific scene set are plural. An M-icon 124 representing the program is formed by grouping. Of course, the number of hierarchical levels of the tree structure is arbitrary, but since the screen size of the editing area 101 is limited, the entire tree structure 104 is not displayed in FIG. In order to display the non-displayed portion, the display is moved in the horizontal direction by the slider 107, and the display is moved by the slider 108 in the vertical direction, so that the whole is viewed.

Now, the tree structure 104 as described above has already been created in the editing area 101. Here, the M-icon 103 is further selected from the material area 102 to continue editing.
The M-icon 103 is extracted from each cut detected by the cut change point detection unit 303, and is displayed as a list as the M-icon 103 in the material area 102 for temporarily placing the material used for editing. . At the stage of calling the image, the M-icon 103 is displayed in the material area 102 from left to right and from top to bottom in chronological order. Similarly to the editing area 101, the M-icons 103 in the material area 102 are also slid vertically by the slider 109 when all the M-icons 103 are not displayed on the screen at the same time. -Look at the icon. The operator moves or copies an arbitrary M-icon 103 to the editing area 101 from among these, and performs editing (that is, creating a so-called program).

  The materials (cuts) actually required for program creation are not all of the materials (or a series of materials read to the editing device as a single moving image file) imported into the magnetic storage device 306. . That is, it is rare that all of the M-icons 103 are necessary, and only the material associated with a part of the M-icons suitable for the editing purpose is used for the program. Also, this material or file usually contains a plurality of scenes. Therefore, the operator searches for a necessary series of M-icons from many M-icons included in the read material or file.

  In the M-icon 103 in the material area 102, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116 are cuts in which announcers appear. The original news program stored in the magnetic storage device 306 is created in such a form that an announcer first appears for each item of news and then the contents of the main story are attached, and then the announcer Since it first appeared, it has changed to another news item.

When the original news program is read from the magnetic storage device 306, it is arranged as shown in the material area 102 of FIG.
That is, “A1” to “k” are arranged in time series, and M-icon 110 to M-icon 116 indicated by “An” are cuts in which the announcer appears, and other M-icons. Is the content of the news. That is, the M-icons “B” to “E” between the M-icon 110 of “A1” and the M-icon 111 of “A2” are one news item, and the M-icon of “A2”. An M-icon from F to K between the icon 111 and the M-icon 112 of “A3” is another news item. When an operator selects an M-icon from “A1” to “E” and presses the execute button to edit a news item starting with the M-icon 110, these “A1” to “E” are displayed in the editing area 101. The M-icon moves to take a tree-like structure, and the M-icon displaying the data of the first frame of the “A1” M-icon representing these M-icons at the top of the tree structure automatically. Created. Of course, the M-icon at the top of the tree structure is arbitrarily assigned to any frame data included in the cuts “A1”, “B”, “C”, “D”, and “E” constituting the tree at the discretion of the operator. Can be changed. If all or some of the M-icons become unnecessary after reconsideration, it is possible to return to the material area 102 or perform operations such as moving / copying to another tree configuration. Similarly, by selecting the M-icon from “A2” to “K” and pressing the execute button, a tree structure with the M-icon from “A2” to “K” can be formed in the editing area 101 (not shown). ). An example of the display of the tree structure newly created in the editing area 101 is shown in FIG. In the tree structure 1001 displayed in the editing area 101, an M-icon 1003 is created in which the first frame of “A1” is displayed in the hierarchy above the M-icons “A1” to “E”. Further, in the tree structure 1002, an M-icon 1004 ′ in which the first frame of “G” is displayed in the hierarchy above the M-icons “A2” to “K” is created. In the tree structure 1002, the M-icon displaying the first frame of “A2” was initially displayed in the upper hierarchy, but changed to the M-icon 1004 ′ displaying the first frame of “G” according to the operator's instruction. It is a thing. Although only a part of the tree structure 1002 is displayed, it can be seen by changing the display range by operating the slider 107 and the slider 108. In FIG. 12, the M-icon 103 in the material area is omitted and not shown.

As described above, when editing a news program, an operator may search the material area 102 for M-icons 110 to 116 from which an announcer appears, and select a series of searched news items. However, in practice, since the image size of the M-icon 103 is small and it is difficult to quickly and accurately determine whether the announcer is seen by looking at the contents of the image, the M-icon 103 in the material area 102 is seen. Thus, it was very difficult for the operator to find the announcer's M-icons 110-116.
Japanese Patent Application No. 09-96131

  As described above, when editing a moving image, it is necessary to take out one news item from the material area 102 as a set of a series of cuts. The M-icons are lined up at equal intervals, rather than being separated. Accordingly, to reliably find a desired news item (a series of cuts) on the screen of the monitor 308, the M-icons displayed in a column in the material area are arranged at equal intervals regardless of the news item division. Since this is a simple state, the screen displayed for the operator is small and the number of screens to be checked is large, so it took time and sometimes was overlooked.

  An object of the present invention is to provide a method for realizing quick and reliable moving image editing by removing the above-described drawbacks, processing the M-icon display method, and making it easy to find the necessary M-icon. It is to provide.

  In order to solve the above problem, image processing is performed on an image captured in a storage device, a frame is detected based on a preset feature, and a cut (M-icon) including the frame is used as a boundary to display The form of is changed.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to realize a moving image editing apparatus capable of easily and quickly finding an editing image required by an operator by adding an accent to the display of the output result.

  As a second effect of the present invention, it is possible to realize a moving image editing apparatus capable of easily and quickly finding an editing image required by an operator by determining an object to be detected.

  FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of the configuration of the moving image editing apparatus, which is the same as that described in the related art. Instead of the magnetic storage device 306, another storage medium, such as an MO disk storage device, or a remote file via a network may be used.

  FIG. 11 shows an example of the editing screen of the moving image editing apparatus displayed on the monitor 308. The editing processing button 106 is added to the editing function button group 105 of FIG. It is a figure in which the tree structure in is not created.

  Hereinafter, a description will be given in accordance with the procedure when the editing work of the present invention proceeds. The material used for the editing work is stored in the magnetic storage device 306 in advance, and a series of moving images recorded by the cut change points represent a plurality of representative M-icons (for example, “A1” to “E”). The description will be made from the state divided into two.

  First, the operator instructs the input device (mouse or keyboard) 309 to read out the image stored in the magnetic storage device 306. Then, the CPU 301 reads out only the first frame of each cut as the corresponding moving image cut change point, and as shown in FIG. 11, the material area 102 on the editing window 100 displayed on the monitor 308 of the CRT display device or the like. It is displayed as an M-icon 103 inside. The editing window 100 is a GUI screen for creating a tree area 104 by moving or copying the material area 102 for displaying the M-icon 103 for use in editing and the M-icon. Editing area 101, button group 105 for performing cut connection and division, trimming work and various special effects, sliders 107, 108, 109 for sliding the display screen, and the like.

  Normally, at the stage of image reading, the M-icon 103 is displayed in the material area 102 in order from left to right and from top to bottom. The operator performs an editing operation by selecting a desired M-icon from the M-icons 103 according to the contents to be edited and creating a tree structure 104.

The arrangement of the M-icons 103 at this time is generally displayed in the order of shooting (time series) as shown in FIG. 11, but can be arbitrarily set such as the reverse order.
Here, as a specific example, when a news program is assumed as an editing material in exactly the same manner as described in the conventional technology, another news program is created for each content (for example, a digest is created). Explain how to edit.

  Now, the original news program stored in the magnetic storage device 306 has been created in a format in which an announcer first appears for each news item, followed by the contents of the main story. Since the announcer appeared in, it has changed to another news item.

  When the original news program is read from the magnetic storage device 306, M-icons 103 corresponding to the cuts detected by the cut change point detection unit 303 are arranged at equal intervals as shown in the material area 102 of FIG.

  That is, “A1” to “k” are arranged in time series, and the M-icons (110 to 116) indicated by “An” therein are cuts in which announcers appear, and other M-icons are Regarding the content of the news, the intervals between all the M-icons 103 are the same. That is, the M-icons “B” to “E” between the M-icon 110 of “A1” and the M-icon 111 of “A2” are one news item, and the M-icon of “A2”. An M-icon from “F” to “K” between the icon 111 and the M-icon 112 of “A3” is another news item, but one news item and another are displayed on the screen. Difficult to distinguish news items.

  FIG. 4 is an example of a flowchart for explaining an operation procedure of feature detection for performing the moving image editing method of the present invention. As described above, regarding the M-icon 103 in the material area 102 on the editing window 100 of the monitor 308, the operator attempts to detect the feature (detect the announcer) M-icon 103 in the section. Is selected using the input device 309 (step 401). Next, the setting function window shown in FIG. 5 is displayed on the monitor 308 by depressing the detection function button 106 of FIG. 11 with the input device 309 (step 402). Next, in the setting window shown in FIG. 5, a search method is designated (step 403), a search result output method is designated, and a start button is pressed (step 404). As a result, the CPU 301 performs a detection process (step 405) and outputs the detection result in a designated format (step 406).

  FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining an example of a setting window for performing feature detection according to the present invention, 500 is a setting window, 508 is a detection method display column, 501 is a button for detecting “person”, and 502 is A button that uses “color bar” as a detection method, a button that uses 503 as a detection method for “credit”, 509 a method display field for the result output, 504 a button that represents the result as “line feed”, and 505 that “encloses” the result. , 504 is a button representing the result as “another window”, 504 is a button representing the result as “tree structure”, 510 is a start button for starting detection, and 511 is a button for closing this window. In the editing window 100 shown in FIG. 11, the operator selects a necessary range from the M-icon 103 in the material area 102 and depresses the detection function button 106. As a result, the setting window 500 shown in FIG. 5 is displayed on the monitor 308, and the operator can perform feature detection setting.

Here, an example of feature detection setting in the case where a method of displaying a result of feature detection by searching for a person (announcer) and performing a line feed will be described.
In FIG. 5, the operator selects a button 501 for “person” as a detection method from the detection method display field 508, and selects a button for representing the result as “line feed” from the detection result output method display field 509. When the operator depresses the start button 510, the CPU 301 reads the M-icon from the magnetic recording device 306, and detects the announcer using a person search algorithm introduced in, for example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 06-223179. At this time, the frame number of the M-icon in which the announcer is detected is recorded in the memory 302. In this way, a search is performed for all selected M-icons. When all the M-icons 103 “A1” to “k” shown in the material area 102 of FIG. 11 are selected and detection processing is performed, “A1” “A2” among the M-icons 103 are selected. ... An announcer is detected in seven M-icons 110 to 116 indicated by “A7”, and this information is stored in the memory 302. Next, the CPU 301 arranges the selected M-icons 103 based on the detection result in the order of time series from the head, and displays the detected M-icons 110 to 116 detected by the announcer. change. FIG. 1 shows a part of the result rearranged in this way. FIG. 1 is a diagram for explaining that the cuts in the material area 102 are rearranged based on the detection result and the result output method described above. Each news item is displayed with the M-icons 110 to 114 detected by the announcer at the top. An M-icon indicating the content of the item follows, and a line break is made when the M-icon of the news item ends. As a result, it can be seen that each line of the rearranged M-icons represents one news item (however, when the number of cuts of one news item is large, it extends over a plurality of lines).

  Thereby, the operator selects a necessary series of M-icons (for example, the M-icon group 201 of “A1” to “E” and the M-icon group 202 of “L” to “P”) according to the purpose of editing. It becomes easy. Note that due to the size of the display screen (material area 102), the “A6” M-icon 115 and the “A7” M-icon 116 are not displayed, but the display screen can be changed by operating the slider 109. You can see it moved up and down. In FIG. 1, the upper side of the editing window 100 is omitted.

Next, other detection methods and display methods will be described.
In addition to the above, there are detection methods for color bars and credits. By depressing the “color bar” detection button 502 or the “credit” detection button 503 in FIG. Manipulate. In these cases, at the time of shooting or the like, a credit or a color bar is inserted at the head, and this is used as a detection target.

  There are several methods for displaying the detection result in addition to the above-mentioned line feed. One of them is a method of displaying the M-icon group of one detected news item by surrounding it with a frame, and depressing a button 505 representing the result by “enclosing”. When the detection result is displayed by this method, as shown in FIG. 6, a method of surrounding the M-icons “A1”, “B”,. There is a method that can be displayed more easily by changing the color or pattern.

  In addition to the method of surrounding the M-icon with a frame, there is a method of adding a mark 701 such as a “▼” symbol as shown in FIG. When this operation is performed, when a button 505 whose result is represented by “enclosure” in FIG. 5 is depressed, a window for selecting “enclosed type” (not shown) is displayed in front of the setting window 500, and the displayed “enclosed” By selecting, for example, a “mark” button in the window for selecting “type”, the output result is displayed as shown in FIG. 7, and the window for selecting the “type of enclosure” is closed and the detection result is displayed. The button 505 in which the result in the output method display field 509 is represented by “enclosed” is changed to a button in which the result is represented by “mark”. Obviously, the mark 701 may have a shape other than the symbol “▼”, color, pattern, painting, shading, or the like. 6 and 7, the upper side of the editing window 100 is omitted.

  As another display method of the detection result, the detection result is displayed in another window, and the separate window display button 506 is pressed down. An example of displaying the detection result by this method is shown in FIGS. In this case, without displaying in the material area 102, a separate display window 800 or 900 is created in front of the editing window 100 and displayed in the separate display window 800 or 900. Therefore, many M-icons can be displayed at one time without being affected by the size of the display screen of the editing area 101 or the material area 102, and the editing operation can be performed more efficiently. Further, as a method of displaying in the separate display window 800 or 900, there can be a method 801 of displaying an M-icon in which an announcer has been detected and a method of displaying the tree structure 901. Further, the display size of the separate display windows 800 and 900 can be arbitrarily changed, and the display position on the monitor 308 can also be changed.

  In FIG. 9, the tree structure 104 of the editing area 101 and the tree structure 901 of the separate display window 900 are different, but when the operator decides to use the contents of the separate display window 900 for editing, A tree configuration 901 of the separate display window 900 is added to the editing area 101 by depressing an execution button (not shown) in the display window 900. Also, in the separate display window 900, editing such as movement and copying of M-icons and addition / deletion of M-icons with the material area 102 is possible.

  As another embodiment of the present invention, there is a method of displaying the detection result directly in a tree structure in the editing area 101. In this case, the selection of the M-icon 103 in the material area 102 is omitted, the feature detection setting window 500 is directly displayed, and the tree structure display button 507 is pressed down. This method can save the operator from creating the tree structure by himself. Here, the display screen of the tree structure may be displayed directly in the editing area 101 in the editing window 100 of FIG. 1, or may be displayed in another window 900 as shown in FIG.

  As another method for displaying the detection result, the interval between the M-icons in one news item and the interval between the news items are different (for example, M from “A1” to “E”). -The interval between the icons is narrowed or reduced to zero or partially overlapped. The Haiti distance between the "E" M-icon and the "A2" M-icon is the beginning of the next news item. M-icon that is the beginning of news items such as “A1” and “A2” is displayed large, and other “B” to “E”, “F” to “K” are displayed. There is also a method of displaying the M-icon small.

  Although the detection method and the display method described above have been described as examples that are displayed individually, for example, it is possible to adopt a plurality of methods such as line feed and further surrounding with a frame, as shown in FIG. Needless to say, it can be added according to the purpose of use of the editing apparatus and the type of material. FIG. 13 shows another embodiment of the display in the material area of the present invention. M-icons 110 ′, 111 ′,..., 116 ′ of “A1”, “A2”,. The display is large, and other "B", ..., "E", "F", ..., "K", "L", ..., "R", "S", ..., M-icons 103 of “V”, “W”, “X”,... “H”, “i”,..., “K” are smaller screens. Further, the M-icons partially overlap each other. FIG. 14 shows an example in which the M-icons “A2” and “F”,..., “K” in the editing area 101 in FIG. The figure shows changes when the M-icon 1004 displaying the “A2” frame is changed to the M-icon 1004 ′ displaying the “G” frame. When the operator performs this operation, the “A2” M-icon in the material area 102 instantly becomes a small M-icon 111, and the “G” M-icon changes to a large M-icon 103 ′. . Conversely, when the operator selects an M-icon to be raised from the small size M-icon 103 in the material area 102 to the top of the hierarchy, the icon becomes a large M-icon, and the original large size. The M-icon changes to a smaller size. In conjunction with this, the M-icon at the upper level of the related tree structure in the editing area 101 is also changed.

The detection data is not M-icons (80 × 60 pixel data), but may be anything such as an NTSC full image (640 × 480 pixel data).
Further, the operation of the method and apparatus used for the above-described moving image editing may be performed by a procedure recorded on a recording medium. Various formats can be used for the recording medium on which the moving image editing method and the procedure of the apparatus are recorded.

The figure which shows an example of the display of the material area of the moving image editing apparatus of this invention The figure which shows the example of a display of the edit window of the conventional moving image editing apparatus The block diagram which shows one Example of a structure of a moving image editing apparatus 6 is a flowchart showing an example of a feature detection setting operation procedure of the moving image editing apparatus of the present invention. The figure which shows an example of the display of the setting window of the moving image editing apparatus concerning this invention The figure which shows the other example of the display of the material area of the moving image editing apparatus of this invention The figure which shows the other example of the display of the material area of the moving image editing apparatus of this invention The figure which shows an example of the display of the window for another display of the moving image editing apparatus of this invention The figure which shows another example of the display of the window for another display of the moving image editing apparatus of this invention. The figure which shows an example of the display of the edit area of the moving image editing apparatus of this invention The figure which shows an example of a display of the edit window of the moving image editing apparatus of this invention The figure which shows an example of a display of the window for edit of the conventional moving image editing apparatus The figure which shows the other Example of the display of the edit window of the moving image editing apparatus of this invention. The figure which shows the other Example of the display of the edit window of the moving image editing apparatus of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

100: Editing window 101: Editing area 102: Material area 103: M-icon 105: Editing function buttons 106: Detection processing buttons 107, 108, 109: Slider 110, 111, 112 , 113, 114, 115, 116: M-icon in which the announcer has appeared, 201, 202: M-icon group, 301: CPU, 302: Memory, 303: Cut change point detection unit, 304: Video interface, 305 : VTR, 306: Magnetic storage device, 307: Frame buffer, 308: Monitor, 309: Input device, 500: Setting window, 501, 502, 503: Detection method designation button, 504, 505, 506, 507: Detection result Display method designation button, 508: Detection method display column, 509: Result output method display column, 510: Start button, 511: Button to close window, 601: Frame, 701: Mark, 800: Window for displaying detection results 801: M-icon, 900: Editing area A) separate display window, 901, 1001, 1002: tree configuration, 1003, 1004: M-icon at the top of the tree configuration.

Claims (2)

  A method for editing a moving image by using a moving image editing apparatus and a cut composed of a set of a plurality of frame images and a scene including at least one of the cuts, the moving image being divided for each cut, A display image associated with each of the divided cuts is created, the created display image is displayed on a display device, a desired display image is selected from the displayed display images, and the display In the method of editing a moving image by creating a hierarchical structure by using an image, a specific display image is detected from the display image by feature detection, and the detected specific display image is used as a result of the feature detection. A moving image editing method, wherein the images are rearranged on the display device and displayed on the display device in another window. Means for dividing a moving image for each cut, means for creating a display image associated with each of the divided cuts, means for displaying the created display image on a display device, and the displayed display In a moving image editing apparatus that edits a moving image, having a means for selecting a desired display image from the image and a means for creating a hierarchical structure based on the display image, the display image associated with the divided cuts Means for detecting a specific display image from the image by feature detection; means for rearranging the display image including the detected specific display image based on the result of the feature detection; and the rearranged display image. A moving image editing apparatus comprising: means for displaying the image on a separate window; and means for changing the display image and a display method of the display image on a display screen.