Software for manually or automatically enhancing camera phone videos?

I was wondering what software is available for editing camera phones videos -- easily and quickly -- that's geared to consumers.

And, I was wondering about two types of software:  For the desktop and on a server.  The server-based software would provide (1) manual video editing/enhancement and/or (2) automatically enhance vidoes without consumers having to do anything. 

Certainly there is a great deal of desktop software designed for editing non camera phone still photos and videos on your desktop computer.  I assume most, if not all, desktop video editing software could be used for camera phone videos. 

Desktop and server software

So, my first question is:  Could any of you reading this weblog suggest desktop software that's especially easy to use for editing camera phone videos?

Next -- many online photo albums/photo prcessing Web sites include simple image editing capabilities on their servers.  It's easy to crop, rotate, remove “red eye,” change the contrast, etc. with these online features.

My second queation:  Is there software for incorporating on Web sites that would allow consumers to easily editing their videos?  So, if I log onto a photo album on, for example, Kodak Mobile or Shutterfly or Sprint PCS, I could not only edit my still images but also edit videos I've uploaded.

Automatic video enhancement?

My third question is more difficult to answer:  Is there server-based software that would automatically enhance camera phone videos without user intervention?

Software is available for installation on cellular operators' servers for automatically enhancing camera phone still photos.  This includes standalone software designed for individual users as well as software developed by camera phone/MMS platform vendors such as LightSurf Technologies. 

What I'm wondering if there's camera phone video enhancement software that would analyze and correct camera phone videos without the user having to do anything. 

Comments?

Any comments on any of these questions?

Comments

[marc brown]

I use quicktime pro also.

I find that iMovie won't keep the stage size small... so you get a really weird looking movie. unless you want to blow your video up from 176x144 to 720x480 and get that super grainy feel...

QT Pro lets you cut/paste really easily, but you have little margin for mistakes and not much control over sound or transitions.

I had heard that IMovie would let you work with smaller stage size, however haven't found that to be the case. I figured Final Cut might be over-kill, but i might start using that as i'm taking more and more video on my Nokia 6630 (which records 60 minutes of video).

The 6630 has a video editing application called "Vid. editor" which does the trick on the road. Muvee (as you posted about recently) seems pretty cheesy. But if you are into that... it is fun.

[Tychocat]

I've had my S710a for less than a week, and have barely scratched the surface with its manual, and how it interfaces with my Macintosh laptop. One big attraction for me was the fact the S710a's video wasn't limited to a few seconds, but could record as long as there was memory.

Shortform answer: Quicktime Player can convert the 3gp movie files the S710a generates into DV streams. I can edit the resulting DV stream in iMovie, or other such video app.

iMovie is Apple's consumer-level DV editor, with however a fairly robust features set, including FX, transitions, and soundtrack editing.

I've tinkered with my S710a's video capability, and the footage looks great on the QVGA display, and in the postage-stamp-sized QCIF playback in the Quicktime player. (Sound is also relatively impressive, considering there's only the phone's mic here.) Of course, the image-size blown up to DV proportions is simply embarrassing to look at on any reasonably-sized display. But the point remains that editing camphone video should be fairly painless on a PC.