Abstract: An image pick-up apparatus includes an image pick-up device of recording a video to generate a video signal, a photographer indication device of indicating a start of a recording and/or a stop of the recording, an AutoREC signal generation device of generating an AutoREC signal in conjunction with the start of the recording and/or the stop of the recording based on the indication, and an AutoREC signal multiplex device of multiplexing a generated AutoREC signal to a generated video signal.