Appeal No. 2000-2094 Application No. 08/923,369 rate. The video editor controls the disc recorder when editing the transferred video data, and further operates to control the recording of the edited video data on the tape recorder at the second data rate. Representative claim 10 is reproduced as follows: 10. A video data recording and reproducing system for editing a source video data, said system comprising: a video tape recording means for recording a source video data onto a tape medium with a first data rate during a recording period and for reproducing recorded source video data from said tape medium with a second data rate which is higher than said first transfer rate to generate reproduced video data; a disc recording means for recording said reproduced video data onto a disc medium with said second data rate so that said source video data is copied from said tape medium to said disc medium during a transfer period which is shorter than said recording period of said source video data; and an editing means for controlling a reproducing operation of said disc recording means to generate an edited video data including a plurality of edit portions which is designated by an editing operation from said source video data recorded on said disc medium, wherein said editing means controls said reproducing operation of said disc recording means so that said edited video data is reproduced from said disc medium with said second data rate and controls said recording operation of said video tape recording means so that said edited video data reproduced from said disc recording means is recorded on said tape medium with said second data rate. 2Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007