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Mac OS X comes with an application called iMovie. It is really great, it lets you import digital video off your camera via a Firewire cable and edit it into very professional movies. It is very elegant, efficient and intuitive to use. You can output movies in several different formats and then use the typically named iDVD to create a DVD with menus and such like. It is again very professional and slick.

Ubuntu needs the same thing as iMovie - a simple to use video editing application that people can use to download off their video cameras and create their own home movies to show to their parents. Kino looks like it is the best candidate, but it is still pretty rough and needs some work. Perhaps Canonical could sling $50k at a developer to work on it for 6 months and bash it into shape? It should come as part of the base Ubuntu install and be completely intuitive. There should also be a DVD burning application that dove-tails into Kino so you can burn your movies to watch on the TV.