HOWEVER fancy the camcorder you buy, you are still faced with the daunting prospect of editing your footage. And this means poring over a pile of (probably unlabelled) DV tapes, winding back and forth through them to find the best bits, and re-recording them onto a PC before you can splice them together. It’s a drudge of a task that’s enough to put off all but the most determined of home movie directors.
Help will soon be at hand for the would-be auteur, however. The next generation of camcorders is doing away with videotape in favour of miniature hard drives…
