Patent attributes
An optical disk contains main video data obtained by compressing pictures captured by a video camera at a relatively low compression ratio, low resolution proxy video data obtained by performing compression at a compression ratio higher than that for the main video data, metadata for use in editing. When a state in which the optical disk 2 is loaded into a drive of an optical disk apparatus is detected, the proxy video data and the metadata are read and recorded in a hard disk drive (HDD) without receiving a user's instruction. The proxy video data and metadata recorded in the HDD are used in simple editing before main editing in which the main video data is edited.