Patent ID: 7362954

Claim:
A recording apparatus comprising: storing means for storing input video data on a storing medium as respective pieces of edit unit data formed of a predetermined number of frames and auxiliary data related to said frames; first registering means for subjecting said pieces of edit unit data stored on said storing medium to error correction processing, determining for each piece of error correction processed unit data whether said error correction processed unit data includes a head of said edit unit data, and registering a result of the determination as consecutive recording start allowing point information in a header of said error correction processing unit data; recording means for recording on a magnetic tape said video data including said header in which said consecutive recording start allowing point information is registered; and second registering means for registering recording end point information in said header corresponding to a head of a predetermined one of said edit unit data stored on said storing medium and not recorded onto said magnetic tape when storing of said video data on said storing medium by said storing means, the registering of said consecutive recording start allowing point information by said first registering means, and the recording of said video data onto said magnetic tape by said recording means are stopped in response to an instruction to temporarily stop the recording, wherein said storing means detects a consecutive recording start point by referring to said recording end point information, and stores input video data on said storing medium as each piece of said edit unit data so as to connect the video data from the detected said consecutive recording start point.