Disclosed herein is a moving-picture editing apparatus that comprises a display device and a controller. The display device has a display screen and can display the frames forming a moving picture, on the display screen in the form of a frame matrix based on the frame rate and display unit time. The controller determines a number of rows and a number of columns in which to display the frames, in accordance with a frame rate and a display unit time, and controls the display device, causing the same to display the frames in rows and columns the numbers of which have been determined.