With you computer you can edit video, BUT to render the finial production may take overnight to finish. When I first started getting into video editing the pc I had at the time was the same as yours, a 5 min viedo could take 30~40 min. complete. Make sure that you get a DV camera that will pass analog-DV passthrough then you can use it convert your old tapes. You will need a firewire card.Also check out this link from user timwerx. John
http://www.timwerx.net/odds/pcfile.htm
Contemplating miniDV camcorder purchase. To edit video on PC, what's the minimum RAM, etc. I should have ? I have a feeling my 256 MB RAM, 500 MHz Piii won't cut it. Or, for that matter, is this purely the domain of Macintosh?

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