Patent ID: 7865066

Claim:
A video camera to start recording information on a recording medium according to a recording start instruction and stop recording information on a recording medium according to a recording stop instruction, the video camera comprising: a signal processing module which generates management information for managing the information recorded on the recording medium using management units of chapters, titles where each title includes plural chapters, and video title sets where each video title set includes plural titles, wherein the number of the recordable video title sets on the recording medium are limited; and a recording module which records the information and the management information on the recording medium; wherein; when the information is recorded on the recording medium in accordance with a maximum limitation on the number of the video title sets and the titles that can be managed on the recording medium, the video camera makes the information of one scene recorded on the recording medium correspond to the chapter and makes the number of the recordable scenes on the recording medium be more than the maximum number of the video title sets and the titles, wherein the information of one scene corresponding to the chapter comprises information recorded from a single recording start instruction to a single recording stop instruction, the recorded chapters are not allocated to any video title set until a finalization process is performed in response to a single finalization instruction from a user, and the number of chapters in each of the video title sets is determined and based on a number of information recorded on the recording medium from a single recording start to a single recording stop during said finalization process, such that the number of chapters is greater than or equal to a maximum number of the video title sets which are able to be recorded on the recording medium, and the chapter is subdivided from the title, wherein the information of one scene is made to correspond to the chapter when the information of one scene is recorded on the recording medium.