Time lapse recording/reproducing device that provides for both continuous recording and intermittent recording simultaneously

The present invention relates to a time lapse recording/reproducing device, in which a continuous recording and an intermittent recording can be performed simultaneously by combining two record media and, upon receiving a trigger signal inputted from outside, information of the scenes before and after the receipt of the trigger signal can be stored as moving pictures. With a time lapse recording/reproducing device for applying time lapse recording/reproducing processing to a video image signal gained through a video surveillance system and the like, a recording control unit () performs controlling by giving directions so that a signal obtained by applying picture compression processing to an inputted video signal in a picture compression/expansion circuit () provided with a means for intra, frame picture compression/expansion processing is recorded on rigid platters of a hard disk driver () as a moving picture and at the same time the foregoing signal is recorded intermittently on an optical disk of an optical disk driver (), and, when an alarm signal is inputted, the foregoing signal is recorded on the rigid platters for a predetermined period of time as a moving picture and then has the recording operation ended, thus realizing a time lapse recording/reproducing device, whereby recorded moving pictures of the scenes just before and after the time when an alarm signal is inputted and also intermittently recorded pictures covering a long period can be obtained.