Video editing system, video editing method, recording/reproducing method of visual information, apparatus therefor, and communication system

摘要

The invention relates to a video editing system and others enabling editing of training video data suitable for training of counselors and others engaged in counseling and others in a direct or indirect face-to-face state and to a recording/reproducing method of visual information and others enabling useful personal learning even in an environment without direct appearance of an instructor or the like in the fields in which instruction or learning using the visual information is effective. Particularly, the video editing system is provided with image pickup means for picking up images of respective, first and second interlocutors facing each other, and first editing means for editing video data in which at least the videos of the first and second interlocutors retrieved from the image pickup means are combined in a state in which display timings thereof are substantially synchronized with each other.