YOU CAN TAKE VIDEOS WITH MOST DIGITAL (STILL) CAMERAS!

Current digital cameras with a 512 MB card ($25) will shoot about 10 minutes of video at 640 x 480 at 30 frames per second. This trend started around 2005.

On the bigger cards you can get up to 40 minutes of video.

Everything hooks to the computer with cards. These cameras are 5 MegaPixels or more for the digital resolution and 640 pixels by 480 pixels.

If you spend less than $150 you might not get any sound with your video, but our clip submission opportunity needs no sound.

From 2002 to 2005, digital cameras did only 10 to 30 seconds of video, and it was low resolution 320 x 280 and 15 frames per second. So the quality would sometimes be poor, and jerky—but it's still worth a try to get $ for clips even with 320-width frame size, since all videos coming to us may (or may not) be reduced to 320 pixels wide anyway to save on server space.

Prior to 2002, there wasn't much shooting video with digital still cameras.

In mid-2006, there are camcorders that will burn a DVD on the fly (no tape) and you can play it pronto on your set-top box. (But it probably isn't editable because it's in set-top format.) The DVDs they burn are small size DVDs that will record about 1/2 hour. They're pretty good quality, but not as good as video tape.

For more info, check out DPreview.com