An integrated, hands-free, portable, point of view digital video camera, comprising: a lens and an image sensor, the image sensor capturing light propagating through the lens and representing a scene, and the image sensor producing image data of the scene; a processor for receiving the image data directly or indirectly from the image sensor; a wireless connection protocol device operatively connected to the processor to send low quality video by wireless transmission directly to and receive control or data signals by wireless transmission directly from a wireless connection-enabled controller executing an application; and firmware operating on the processor and configured to produce from the image data of the scene a high quality video and a low quality video, wherein the low quality video is produced, for wireless transmission directly to the wireless connection-enabled controller, wherein the processor is configured to: cause the wireless connection protocol device to stream the low quality video directly to the wireless connection-enabled controller for preview on a display of the wireless connection-enabled controller prior to recording the scene, receive the control or data signals for the video camera from the wireless connection-enabled controller wherein the wireless connection-enabled controller produces the control or data signals for the video camera, and wherein the control or data signals comprise at least one of a video setting, a lighting setting, or an audio setting, adjust a set of camera parameters of the video camera based at least in part the control or data signals received from the wireless connection-enabled controller, wherein the firmware operating on the processor causes adjustment of selected ones of the set of camera parameters in response to the control or data signals received from the wireless connection-enabled controller, and store the low quality video at the video camera as a first video file and store the high quality video at the video camera as a second video file, thereby enabling the low quality video to be played back after a recorded action has taken place. a lens and an image sensor, the image sensor capturing light propagating through the lens and representing a scene, and the image sensor producing image data of the scene; a processor for receiving the image data directly or indirectly from the image sensor; a wireless connection protocol device operatively connected to the processor to send low quality video by wireless transmission directly to and receive control or data signals by wireless transmission directly from a wireless connection-enabled controller executing an application; and firmware operating on the processor and configured to produce from the image data of the scene a high quality video and a low quality video, wherein the low quality video is produced, for wireless transmission directly to the wireless connection-enabled controller, wherein the processor is configured to: cause the wireless connection protocol device to stream the low quality video directly to the wireless connection-enabled controller for preview on a display of the wireless connection-enabled controller prior to recording the scene, receive the control or data signals for the video camera from the wireless connection-enabled controller wherein the wireless connection-enabled controller produces the control or data signals for the video camera, and wherein the control or data signals comprise at least one of a video setting, a lighting setting, or an audio setting, adjust a set of camera parameters of the video camera based at least in part the control or data signals received from the wireless connection-enabled controller, wherein the firmware operating on the processor causes adjustment of selected ones of the set of camera parameters in response to the control or data signals received from the wireless connection-enabled controller, and store the low quality video at the video camera as a first video file and store the high quality video at the video camera as a second video file, thereby enabling the low quality video to be played back after a recorded action has taken place.