A system for editing audio/video productions includes
- an ingestion processor having means for receiving a recording medium and being arranged in use to reproduce audio/video material items from said recording medium,
- a data base operable to receive and to store meta data describing the contents of said audio/video material items on said recording medium, and
- an editing processor coupled to said ingestion processor and said data base, said editing processor having a graphical user interface for displaying a representation of said meta data stored in said data base and for selecting said audio/video material items from said displayed representation of said meta data, said editing processor being arranged to combine user selected items of audio/video material, which are selectively reproduced by said ingestion processor in response to meta data corresponding to said selected items of audio/video material being communicated to said ingestion processor by said editing processor.