Once upon a time, you needed an expensive camera to make digital videos, or you needed special equipment and hardware to put your videos onto your computer for upload to the internet. Now, you can take one image and turn it into a "video" for places like YouTube, and all you need is software and a pretty good computer. Today’s video editing and creation software makes it possible to use video from camcorders, digital cameras, videotape, or just about anywhere else.

You can use editing tools to add your own soundtrack, put narration over slideshows, and dub your own music over the whole production. Whether you have an Apple Macintosh or IBM PC platform running Windows (or Linux), you can get quite a few video programs for free, or spend a few more dollars and get professional grade video software titles that are even used to make major motion pictures.

Many people know that the film Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow was based on a digital video demo done on a Mac, and that was before the faster dual and quad core processors that make
video editing much less time consuming.