| abstract |
An authoring system wherein various processes are applied to a bit stream which conveys information including moving picture data, audio data and auxiliary picture data which constitute titles each having a series of correlated contents, a bit stream is generated in order to produce a title which has a content meeting the request of the user, the generated bit stream is efficiently recorded on a predetermined recording medium, and the title content which meets the request of the user is further reproduced from the generated bit stream. The user inputs through input means such as a keyboard the edit of the content of the multimedia bit stream which is source data, the inputted content of edit is converted into authoring encode parameters, it is judged whether or not the content of edit satisfies the conditions specified by the data structure etc. based upon the authoring system or not, and, if not, the judgement is fed back to the user to prompt the user to input the edit information again. |