A digital video camera includes a data processing pipeline being operable in a plurality of modes including a first mode in which said video output data is passed to a data storage system for storage on local non-volatile storage; a second mode in which said video output data is formatted into a native video data format of a video transmission system and passed to the video transmission system for transmission; and a third mode in which said video output data is processed into a video data format that is not a native video data format of the video transmission system and passed to the video transmission system for transmission to a secondary memory.