And lo on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:55:45 -0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did
  

spake, saying:

> 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*! ;-)

My camera takes still images at 3072*2304, but movies at 640*480; mobile
s  

phones at 320*240 (or better now). Neither of these items are designed  

primarily for taking movies, so a trade-off has to occur. If you can mak
e  

out what's happening then the quality is good enough  

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2197464393936227318 (sound)

> 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.

Otherwise known as 'things young geeks do' :-)

> 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...

If you want real-time editing and remastering back to the camera then  

quite possibly; if you just want to pull the data then play with it for 
 

burning or uploading then as Gilles said you just need capacity. How doe
s  

your camera want to output data, let me guess Firewire?

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