Patent ID: 7031593

Claim:
A video tape recorder in which an analog audio-video signal supplied to an input terminal is separated into a video signal and an audio signal by an audio-video separating section, the video signal and the audio signal are recorded on a video track and an audio track of a video tape, respectively, and the video signal and the audio signal which are recorded on the video tape are reproduced to be output, said video tape recorder comprising: an analog/digital converting section which analog/digital-converts the analog audio-video signal and supplies a resulting signal to said audio-video separating section; an editing section which edits the video signal and the audio signal that are separated from each other by said audio-video separating section; a discontinuous medium on and from which the video signal and the audio signal that are edited by said editing section is to be recorded and reproduced; and a continuous medium on and from which the video signal and the audio signal that are reproduced from said discontinuous medium are continuously recorded and reproduced, wherein, in response to a selection operation on an operating section, said editing section changes a sequence of the video signal and the audio signal which are to be recorded on said discontinuous medium.