With HD just around the corner, editing systems need to be very high spec, here is a guide of what you can expect to need.

What is hdv?

You will need solid stable system with high performance for your HDV editing system. Forget about minimum specs, and get the most powerful machine you can afford, loaded with RAM and very fast storage.

A typical spec system would be :

Intel® Pentium® 4 3.0GHz processor or faster (Intel Xeon® 3.2GHz dual processors, Hyper-Threading supported)
1GB RAM
Pair of Identical SATA drives striped in a RAID0 configuration (2 x 120GB = 240GB) for storage
nVidia Quadro based graphic cards