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Originally Posted by Despare
My wife's shoots to DVD/Mini DVD/or SD card, as long as you use RWs and don't finalize the disc you can edit the files, put them back on the DVD, or just save them to a file and post them online.
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Yeah, of course you can edit if you save to DVD/Mini DVD.
But camcorders that shoot to DVD store in MPEG2 (obviously, so they can be played on a DVD player).
MPEG2 is a lossy compression scheme that uses a system of key frames and intermediate predicted frames. So editing a video clip is more likely to suffer generational loss because by chance you are likely to be using predicted frames to generate more predicted frames.