I too have a Panasonic DV video camera, and I must say it is good. Apart from the camera itself I also go a IEEE1394 firewire card that allows DV capturing I also got a dedicated HDD 30GB total cost £250. As mentioned DV cameras bought in the UK/EU are not DV in enabled in other words you can capture the movie onto your PC edit it in sofware and capture frames/stills add effects and transitions etc, but you can't output it back into the camera. You can however buy whats called a widget
http://www.datavision.co.uk/acatalog...nablers_1.html costs around £80 and this converts the camera to DV in and out so you can tape back to the DV camera and then transfer the footage to a normal VCR.