Patent ID: 7734149

Claim:
A moving picture recording and/or editing apparatus for recording secondary audio on a recording medium on which a moving image is divided into a plurality of basic units, and basic unit information related to the moving image is recorded in each basic unit, the basic unit comprising at least one of video data and audio data, and the audio data comprises first audio and second audio, and first state information and second state information, indicative of states of the first audio and the second audio, respectively, are recorded in the basic unit information, the recording and/or editing apparatus comprising: a recording controller to record and/or edit secondary audio over part or all of original audio when the original audio is recorded in both the first audio and the second audio, the recording and/or editing of the secondary audio over part or all of the original audio being selectable between the first audio and the second audio, and record the first state information capable of indicating and distinguishing between a state representing that the first audio is original audio and a state representing that the first audio is secondary audio recorded over part or all of the original audio in the basic unit information of the first audio, and record the second state information capable of indicating and distinguishing between a state representing that the second audio is original audio, a state representing that the second audio is secondary audio recorded over part or all of the original audio, a state representing that the second audio is dummy audio which is the same as the first audio, and a state representing that the second audio is the secondary audio recorded over part or all of the dummy audio in the basic unit information of the second audio.