Patent ID: 8085842

Claim:
A recording apparatus comprising: an input unit configured to input moving image data; a generating unit configured to encode moving image data of 24 frames per second which has been input from the input unit by selectively using intra-frame coding, forward predictive coding, and bidirectional predictive coding to generate first coded moving image data which can be displayed as 2-3 pulldown processed moving image data of 30 frames per second; a designating unit configured to designate a frame where a redundant field provided in the 2-3 pulldown processing is included and a bottom field is displayed first, from among intra-frame coded frames and forward predictive coded frames which are included in the first coded moving image data, as an edit starting frame, wherein the designating unit does not designate a frame where a redundant field provided in the 2-3 pulldown processing is not included and a top field is displayed first, from among intra-frame coded frames and forward predictive coded frames which are included in the first coded moving image data, as the edit starting frame; and a recording unit configured record the first coded moving image data output from the generating unit and additional information for discriminating the edit start frame on a recording medium.