To provide a recording device and a recording method for recording an image with high quality while suppressing an increase in the number of optical disks required for recording.

The recording device includes: an information reading means 105 reading content data recorded on a recording medium; a calculation means 107 calculating the number of optical disks required for recording the content data read by the information reading means at a prescribed bit rate; a recording bit rate setting means 109 setting a recording bit rate higher than the prescribed bit rate so that the content data are stored in optical disks whose quantity has been calculated by the calculation means; and a recording means 111 recording the content data on the optical disks at the recording bit rate set by the recording bit rate setting means.