It’s really hard managing all of the tapes that I create with my digital video camera– it’s too hard to remember what scenes and times are on any given tape, and too time consuming to transfer all of the tapes to hard disk or DVD.

It should be fairly simple for a video camera to create a digital “index sheet” of the scenes on a tape that could be transferred to a computer very quickly, whenever a tape fills up. The index sheet would include a representative shot and the beginning and ending times for each segment on the tape. Then all that’s needed is a PC UI for browsing and querying your collection of snippets.

Many cameras (e.g. Sonys) already have flash memory for still photos, so this seems to be mostly a software problem.