Patent ID: 7620292

Claim:
A reproducing apparatus comprising: a reproducing circuit adapted to reproduce one scene of a moving picture recorded in a recording medium; an effector adapted to apply a special effect process to the moving picture reproduced from the recording medium; a detector adapted to detect a time length of the one scene of the moving picture to which the special effect process is applied by the effector; and a controller adapted to determine whether the detected time length of the one scene of the moving picture is longer or shorter than a first time length and to change an execution time length of the special effect process in accordance with a determination result, wherein the controller sets the special effect process execution time length to a second time length when the controller determines the detected time length of the one scene of the moving picture is longer than the first time length, and the controller changes the special effect process execution time length to a time length shorter than the second time length when the controller determines the detected time length of the one scene of the moving picture is shorter than the first time length.