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Digital video can be copied with no degradation in quality.

No matter how many generations of a digital source is copied, it will still be as clear as the original first generation of digital footage.

However a change in parameters like frame size as well as a change of the digital format can decrease the quality of the video due to new calculations that have to be made.

Digital video can be manipulated and edited to follow an order or sequence on an NLE, or non-linear editing workstation, a computer-based device intended to edit video and audio.

More and more, videos are edited on readily available, increasingly affordable consumer-grade computer hardware and software.

However, such editing systems require ample disk space for video footage.

The many video formats and parameters to be set make it quite impossible to come up with a specific number for how many minutes need how much time.