Well I plumped for Pinnacle DV editor (with PCI firewire) which was on offer at £50 and all went well until it came to rendering the file into JPEG format whereupon the machine promptly reached capacity and took about a minute to render each 10 sec of video. Although it says on the box you need a min. of 233 Mhz Pentium 3 or so, what is a practical minimum spec, say to render at normal (1:1) speed or faster?. .The laptop awaits the outcome of this experiment.
[ 28 January 2002: Message edited by: DB6 ]</p>