Videotape reaches the end of the reel

摘要

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 or memory cards, which are becoming capacious enough to record high-quality video. The upshot of this is that footage can be edited in the camera, instead of on a separate PC.