1. The Camera

As they say on the Vado website: "Thin and lightweight, the Vado HD is so small it fits in a pocket, purse or the palm of your hand. You can capture up to two hours of video in 720p High Definition quality with just the touch of a button, storing it in its 8GB memory."

Here's a nice video introduction to the camera itself.
 

The Vado support website has plenty of online materials to help in using your Vado for the first few times. The FAQs page also has loads of answers to common questions about the camera.

2. The Software

The Creative Vado comes with a basic video management and editing software called Vado Central. It should start up automatically when you plug the USB into your computer. If you run into trouble, this step-by-step guide to launching Vado Central will help.

The software is easy to use and you can upload videos directly to YouTube! Sounds great, except that it can't do a few tricks we need for editing your videos. If you want to just take a quick clip and upload it to YouTube, then use Vado Central.

Here are some guides to using Vado Central for:

• Capturing a Photo (take a still picture from you video...very useful!)
• Trimming a single video clip for easy uploading to YouTube.
• Uploading video clips to your YouTube account.
• Making movies from your video clips.

Note: If you have a Mac computer, the Creative Vado needs to install a special driver in order to move your movies to iMovie. See this tutorial for instructions.