1. An automated method comprising: a user initiating the method in a processor, the processor arranged to receive video footage, the video footage having been previously recorded by a hand held video camera, calculating an amount of camera motion in each frame; calculating a direction of camera motion in the each frame, identifying a plurality of sequential frames within the video footage in which the hand held camera was held substantially steady during recording where: (i) the amount of camera motion is below a first threshold; and (ii) an average amount of change in the direction of camera motion is above a second threshold; marking the identified plurality of sequential frames in which the amount of camera motion is below the first threshold and in which the average amount of change in the direction of camera motion is above the second threshold as a static interest segment; and providing an edited version of the video footage including the marked plurality of sequential frames.