Gilles Tran wrote:

> Some *** cell phones *** can do (basic) video editing now. So yes, it's 
> mainstream technology as demonstrated by millions of YouTube "directors".
> You'll need lots of disc space though. A Mini DV tape translates into tens 
> of gigabytes.

 From what I've seen of mobile phone "pictures" and "videos", the 
quality as so abysmal as to be laughable. I'm talking about video that 
you'd actually want to *watch*! ;-)

As for YouTube, most of it seems to be either illegal movies, mobile 
phone recordings [most of which demonstrate an awe-inspiring level of 
pointlessness], or footage of computer games.

[But then, I don't suppose most normal people would want to actually put 
the video of their holiday in Molta on YouTube. Who would watch it? And, 
presumably, it would take several weeks to upload...]

Video editing is something that moderately interests me. And I have a 
digital camcorder now. But I'm not aware of any way of getting the 
digital data from the camera to my PC, and that presumably means I'll 
need an expensive video capture card...

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