Patent ID: 7941029

Claim:
A moving-image shooting device for shooting a moving image and recording a resultant video signal in a recording medium; the shooting device comprising: a frame rate setting section for setting arbitrarily and independently before the shooting, a shooting frame rate, which is a number of frames per unit-time in shooting the moving image, and a reproducing frame rate, which is a number of frames per unit time in reproducing the moving image; a shooting section for shooting the moving image at the shooting frame rate set by the frame rate setting section; and a recording section for recording information indicating the shooting frame rate and information indicating the reproducing frame rate in the recording medium by a fractional text form in which a denominator is the shooting frame rate and a numerator is the reproducing frame rate, wherein both of the information are linked with the video signal of the moving image shot, and wherein the recording section records both of the information with the video signal linked in the recording medium only when the shooting frame rate is different from the reproducing frame rate; and a video coding section for providing the video signal with a coding process for compressing the moving image by using inter-frame compression, wherein the video coding section determines an amount of video signals coded by the coding process per unit time based on a ratio of the shooting frame rate to the reproducing frame rate.