Editing apparatus for sequentially reproducing information signals from

Abstract

An editing apparatus has a storage unit in which a plurality of recorded media, such as, tape cassettes, are stored at respective storage positions, a first memory for storing data identifying the recorded media in the storage unit and data representing the respective storage positions thereof, a playback device for reproducing information signals from recorded media at a loaded position therein, a recording device for recording on a recording medium, such as, another tape cassette, the information signals reproduced by the playback device, a second memory for storing the data identifying the recorded media loaded in the playback device, a transport device for carrying the recorded media between the respective storage positions in the storage unit and the loaded position in the playback device with the data stored in the first and second memories being updated in response to operations of the transport device, and a control system by which operations of the transport device are controlled in accordance with input editing data and the data stored in the first and second memories.