Currently only ieee1394 (Firewire) is supported for downloading video off of a DV camcorder. Many camcorders now have USB support, which is also much more common on computers. There is currently no way for people to get video off of their camera if they do not have a ieee1394 port.

If you plug a video camera (ieee1392 Firewire) and launch Kino (for example) your camera won't be detected.
You first need to modprobe the raw1394 module and then chmod the /dev/raw1394 device (according to many howto's...). That's not user-friendly.
The default user should be included in the group of /dev/raw1394 and the system should automatically detect the camera and load the raw1394 module

I know it has been filed as a bug on launchpad, but it's been 3 releases since i started using ubuntu and i still can't get video from my DV camera, unless i change file permissions, so i think this is rather a missing feature, rather than an outright bug. I DO NOT WANT TO INSTALL UBUNTU STUDIO!!! I have no use for it's gazillion video and audio editors, nor it's real-time kernel- I AM NOT A PROFESSIONAL VIDEO EDITOR(and if i was i would be using a Mac).
I know i'm not the only one who has this problems, as i hae seen people all over asking how to get this working. As with many things that need to be ironed out in ububuntu, the point is that you should have things working without following a tutorial involving the terminal on how to fix it.
And don't bother telling me to get a USB cam, because you'l simply miss the point.

The problem is that when you have a clip in kino (and other video editing tools) and you need a better tool to edit the audio you have to extract the audio and open it in Audacity.

I would like to have multimedia application integrate more wit each other to edit the audio in kino (and other video editing tools) with the Audacity editing capability without having to export anything.