Introduction

Today, thanks to the Internet and video sharing sites such as YouTube, you can find video just about anywhere. You’ll find it on your hard drive, on your iPod, and on your iPhone. You can even upload video for the entire world to see on dozens of video sharing and video blogging sites, and you can view homemade video shorts on cable channels such as Current TV and, occasionally, CNN.

So here you sit with your camcorder and your computer, eager to join this exciting world, but you find that despite all this change and energy, the whole digital video experience is lacking something; it’s missing that one key ingredient necessary to keep you involved and interested...Fun!

The fact is, editing video is hard work. Getting the right shots ...

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