Video-editing workflow methods and apparatus thereof are disclosed. A user drops off (or send) to a merchant that provides video-processing services the analog or digital videotape. The videotape can be processed (digitized if necessary) into both a high-resolution and low-resolution video stream. The low-resolution video stream could be provided to a customer either in the form of a CD/DVD or accessible for download from the Internet. While at home on a personal computer or consumer video edition device, the user could perform the edits and cuts on the low-resolution video stream. The edits to the video stream, which are very small, can then be sent into the video processing service and re-rendered on the high-resolution video stream.