In addition, in the present exemplary embodiment, the description has been given of a case in which a movie to which a set effect is to be applied is recorded onto the recording medium 200 after the effect being applied thereto. The present invention, however, is not limited thereto, and is effective also in the recording of a movie to be reproduced with an effect being applied. In such a case, an effect to be applied to a set of movies is recorded in association with the set of movies. Also in a case in which a movie is reproduced with an effect being applied, if the recording of the movie is casually interrupted by the user, the effect may be applied halfway to the movie, so that a high-quality movie may not be obtained. More specifically, a recorded movie is recorded as a movie file without an effect being applied, and the type and the section of the effect to be applied for reproduction are stored as attribute information of the movie file. Then, before reproducing the movie, the effect indicated by the attribute information is applied to the movie read from the movie file, and the resultant movie is reproduced. In this manner, the present invention is also applicable to movie recording performed in a case in which it is known in advance that an effect is to be applied for reproduction. In addition, the description has been given of a case in which a recorded movie is recorded onto the recording medium 200. Alternatively, the present invention is also effective in a case in which the recorded movie is temporarily recorded (arranged) into a buffer memory, and then recorded into a nonvolatile memory.