quite a while, and are close to the technical people at Sony. They are also much stronger with sound than Adobe is.
Hardware. I've been told dual core AMD 64 should be the minimum. The pros would like to see multiple dual core processors on the machine. One gig of memory will be a minimum. High speed SATA in a RAID is also recommended. I don't recall the recommendations on capture hardware.
I just bought my new HDR-HC1 and need to know what software I should go with to edit the HDV. Also building a new computer to deal with the Hi-Def editing, any recommendations on the components would be appreciated for the Motherboard, Processor, RAMM, Hard drive, Raid Card and Video Card.

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