The Droid X’s built-in camcorder takes video in 1280 x 720 high-definition widescreen format (HD 720p). The screen lets you see what you’re recording. You get to the Droid X’s built-in camcorder by turning on the Camera app (by pressing the Camera button or from the Application Tray, as described on Home Screen). Tap the screen, and then tap the 
icon to switch to Camcorder mode. (Repeat the steps but tap the 
icon to switch back to the camera.)
To start recording, hold down the Camera key all the way, or tap the red button, and you’re recording video. The red button turns into a gray square. To stop recording, press the square. To record without sound, press the Mute button, and to turn sound back on, tap it again.
There are some differences between taking still photos and recording videos. With video:
You can’t zoom in and out.
It may take a while for the “Touch video for more options” message to appear because there’s a lot more data to save.
If you tap the screen when the “Touch video for more options” message appears, you have fewer choices than you do with photo—you can delete the video, share it, or start taking a new video. When you start taking a new video, the one you just took is automatically saved.
The scenes you can choose from (tap the screen and then tap Scenes) are different from the ones you can choose for still photos. Your choices are Everyday, for normal video capture and stereo sound; Outdoors, for capturing video outdoors (because it reduces wind sounds); Concert, because it does the best job of reducing distortion in loud music; Narrative, for when you want to comment on the scene you’re capturing; and Subject, when you want to record a person sitting or standing right in front of the camera.
When you’re in the viewfinder and press the Menu key, a Video Modes option appears, rather than Picture Modes. You can choose from four different modes—Normal video; Video Message, which configures the capture settings for sending video via MMS (Multimedia Message Service); Slow motion; and Fast motion.
Note
The effects you can apply to your videos are exactly the same ones that you can apply to still photos.
To edit your videos, you’ll have to head back into the Gallery. Open the video you want to edit, press the Menu key, and then select Edit→“Advanced editing”, and you can edit your video by doing things such as cutting any dead air at the beginning or end of the video, adding a title, removing the audio track, and so on.
