Patent ID: 8594492

Claim:
A recording apparatus for recording video-audio information, comprising: a recording module configured to record video-audio information on a first recording medium and a plurality of second recording media; a dividing module configured to divide the video-audio information recorded in the first recording medium such that the divided video-audio information has a size not more than recordable capacity of the second recording media; a digest information generation module configured to generate digest information by extracting a part of each video-audio information divided by the dividing module; a dubbing module configured to dub the video-audio information divided by the dividing module by copying or transferring the video-audio information to a plurality of second recording media; an information adding module configured to add the second recording media with information about a total number of the second recording media and sequential numbers of the second recording media out of the total number thereof, the information being required when the video-audio information is dubbed to the plurality of second recording media by the dubbing module; and an extracting and dubbing module for dubbing the digest information to one of the second recording media which is extracted out of the video-audio information dubbed to a different recoding medium other than the one second recording medium among the plurality of the second recording media among the digest information retained until after finishing dubbing to the pre-generated plurality of second recording media by the digest information generating module.