Patent ID: 8520119

Claim:
A recording apparatus comprising: an input unit configured to input image signals; a recording and reproducing unit configured to control recording a clip, including one of the image signals inputted by the input unit, on a randomly accessible recording medium and reproducing the one image signal from the randomly accessible recording medium; an output unit configured to output to a display device one of the image signals inputted by the input unit and an index screen including a plurality of representative information of a plurality of clips each including one of the image signals recorded on the randomly accessible recording medium, wherein the display device is able to be changed to a power off state in a power on state of the recording apparatus; a receiving unit configured to receive an instruction; and a control unit configured to control the recording and reproducing unit, the output unit, and the receiving unit, wherein in response to an instruction for displaying the index screen during outputting of one of the image signals inputted by the input unit to the display device and recording of the clip including one of the inputted image signals on the randomly accessible recording medium, the control unit controls the recording and reproducing unit and the output unit so that the output unit switches an output to the display device from one of the image signals inputted by the input unit to the index screen including the plurality of representative information of the plurality of clips other than the clip including one of the inputted image signals being recorded on the randomly accessible recording medium and outputs, to the display device, the index screen including the plurality of representative information of the plurality of clips other than the clip including one of the inputted image signals being recorded on the randomly accessible recording medium while the recording and reproducing unit records the clip including one of the inputted image signals on the randomly accessible recording medium, wherein if an instruction for reproducing the image signal of the clip corresponding to representative information selected from the plurality of representative information in the index screen displayed on the display device during recording of the clip including one of the inputted image signals on the randomly accessible recording medium is issued, the control unit controls the recording and reproducing unit so as to reproduce the image signal of a clip corresponding to the selected representative information from the randomly accessible recording medium in parallel with recording the clip of one of the inputted image signals on the randomly accessible recording medium, and wherein if the display device is in the power off state and the recording and reproducing unit is recording the clip including one of the inputted image signals on the randomly accessible recording medium, the control unit inhibits the receiving unit from receiving the instruction for displaying the index screen.