Abstract: A scene information editor 12 extracts, for a plurality of scenes, still image data on the representative frames of scenes from a representative frame file, and arranges the still images along with a time axis and in chronological order along a time axis for display on the screen of a display. For the time period corresponding to the part of the time axis specified by a user, the editor extracts motion image data from an LD and displays the motion image data on a TV monitor. The scene information editor also extracts the information given to those scenes from a scene information file 21 and graphically displays the information on the screen of the display 14 at the same time. When the user inputs an edit command, the scene information editor executes it for the edit scene information file 21.