Patent ID: 7689591

Claim:
A recording apparatus for editing data and recording edited data as a file, comprising: a file generator circuit generating a file, the file comprising: a management information block having an image management track, the image management track storing management information used to reproduce a selected sample of image data, the image data comprising samples, recorded in a sequence over a time period, wherein the sample is selected based on a predetermined unit of the time period and independent of the recorded sequence, the predetermined unit corresponding to a recorded time of the selected sample; an identifier of the image management track; a display control track for storing management information of display control data, wherein the display control data indicates a display position of the selected sample in relation to the image data; and a data block, blocked separately from the management information block, capable of storing data managed by the management information block; a computer-readable storage medium; and a system controller microcomputer recording the generated file in the computer-readable storage medium.