Method of generating index image, apparatus for generating index image, method of correcting index image data, apparatus for correcting index image data, method of correcting edit auxiliary data, and apparatus for correcting edit auxiliary data

Abstract

It becomes possible to generate an index information used as an auxiliary upon edition on a recording medium where video information is recorded to record it on a recording medium, and to select a picture matched with a desired condition from the video information recorded on the recording medium to generate the index picture information. The controllerreads a time code of a mark-in point from a cassette attached memory, reproduces the picture of the mark-in point matched with the desired condition as an index picture and supplies the reproduced signal from a video signal compression coding/decoding unitto an index generating unit. The index generating unitcompresses and reduces the index picture and arranges a plurality of pictures in one frame, thereby generating an index picture information. The index generating unitoutputs the index pictures to record them on the video tape