PURPOSE: To attain suitably picture synthesizing by recording the control information on a camera in an outdoor shoot mode in response to the recorded pictures and driving with control a studio camera by the recording information when the pictures obtained from the outdoor shoot are synthesized with the studio pictue.

CONSTITUTION: In a location modd a screen A photographed by a camera 1 is fed to a video tape recorder 2 together with the picture information, i.e., the control information the panning, tilting, zooming, etc. of the camera 1 related to the movement of the screen A. A screen B obtained in a studio is synthesized with the recorded screen A through a studio camera 11. Im this case, both the picture signal and the control information are produced by the recorder 2. Then the camera 11 is driven by the control information. Thus it is possible to obtain the synchronizatin between a motion picture and the movement of a studio picture in a location mode.