For example, uncompressed video is about 27 Megabytes per second. In order to deal with the internet's low bandwidth, video must be compressed. Compression is the process by which large movie files are reduced in size by the removal of redundant audio and video data. You will see a loss of quality after compression. This is, once again, the reason to start with shooting high quality video.
Camera Use a high quality camera.
The camera and format that the IDG recommends is a DV camera. If the video is shot on any format other than DV, IDG will have to transfer the footage to the DV format before capturing it into the computer for editing. IDG recommends using the DV format for shooting all video. DV cameras can also be rented. The DV cameras have many options and features.