Our new pair of office cameras each have the limited capability to record Quicktime movies. Besides the obvious benefit of documenting the lovely cubicles in which members of our staff live and work, we can easily augment our normal complement of photographs with videos during visits to project sites for surveying, inspection or construction supervision. The engineering world, however, is one of IBM clones, and the native multimedia application is Windows Media Player - which happens to not recognize Apple's Quicktime format.
Here again, technology saved the day. I scoured the internet until I found a reliable, shareware video converter; with it, our onsite teams can return to the office, import their Quicktime .MOV files and effortlessly change them to the .AVI format universally recognized by Windows operating systems. The Kodak cameras' video quality is similar to that of their snapshots - modest - but from location to camera to report, the procedure is seamless and utterly inexpensive. It's not a question of whether easy-to-create video will come in handy; it's a question of just how much.