On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 15:50:52 +0000 (UTC), alans220@hotmail.com (alan) wrote:

>I'm just about to purchase my first Video Camera, looking for a
>compact mini-dv, veering towards the SonyDCR-PC6 or 9.
>I intend to download videos to my PC, edit, and then copy to VHS.
>
>So, do I need DV in, how would it be of benefit for me, am I missing
>something.

You will want to copy all that editing work back to the
Mini-DV camcorder by FireWire so you have best-quality
masters for future copies to any medium you want (I
recommend making two masterspreferably in SP-mode, so
you are likely to be able to recover all parts of the
edited video in the future, even with some damage to
the tapes...).