Patent ID: 7869692

Claim:
An imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging unit configured to generate a moving image signal; a recording and reproduction unit configured to record the moving image signal generated by the imaging unit during a period from an instruction to start photographing to an instruction to stop photographing as one cut on a recording medium, and to reproduce the moving image signal from the recording medium; a mode setting unit configured to set one of a reproduction mode for reproducing the moving image signal recorded on the recording medium and a recording mode for recording the moving image signal on the recording medium; a designating unit configured to designate one of a plurality of cuts recorded on the recording medium as a reproduction start cut, the designating unit, in response to the recording and reproduction unit recording the cut first in the recording mode, automatically designating a cut which is different from a cut recorded on the recording medium before the first cut is recorded and is recorded first in the recording mode among a plurality of cuts recorded on the recording medium as the reproduction start cut; a selecting unit configured to select the cut designated as the reproduction start cut by the designating unit among the plurality of cuts recorded on the recording medium responsive to a change from the recording mode to the reproduction mode by the mode setting unit; a control unit configured to control the recording and reproducing unit to reproduce the moving image signal starting with the reproduction start cut selected by the selecting unit in accordance with an instruction to start reproduction in the reproducing mode.