Editing system, editing method, clip management apparatus, and clip management method

Claim 1

An editing system comprising: a database for registering information for each of a plurality of clips; a plurality of modules for selectively performing one or more of editing composing, and special effects processing on said plurality of clips to produce a first resultant clip, said modules being operable to perform processing on said first resultant clip to produce a second resultant clip; said plurality of modules comprising an edit module for performing said editing processing of said plurality of clips, a composite module for performing said composing processing of said clips, and a special effect module for performing said special effects processing of said clips; display means for displaying a graphical user interface respectively representing said edit module, said composite module, and said special effect module on a display; said display means further displaying a table of horizontally aligned rows and vertically aligned columns, said table including at least automatically generated textual indicia identifying said plurality of clips as being material clips or resultant clips including those clips subjected to said processing to produce said first resultant clip, and said indicia indicating the modules used to process said clips, said table further identifying the second resultant clip produced as a result of processing performed on said first resultant clip, and indicating the type of processing performed thereon, said table further indicating a duration of said plurality of clips and having an enable/disable flag for each of said plurality of clips; and control means for controlling said plurality of modules based on said information registered in said database; said control means updates content of a first resultant clip registered in the database, and updates content of resultant clips produced from said first resultant clip; said control means overwrites content of a first resultant clip registered in the database with content of a new resultant clip, and updates content of resultant clips produced from said first resultant clip; said control means stores said overwritten content of said first resultant clip and said updated content of said resultant clips in the database.