Recently I was at broadcast trade show demonstrating Vegas and the unit I was demoing on was an Intel based Quad Core QX6700 2.67GHz unit and basically this could run HDV with pic-in-pic HDV and maintain full frame rate. Start applying any CC or filters and the rate would drop. I think for HDV editing this would be about the minimum horsepower you would need to be able to edit HDV in any meaningful manner. I know I would be frustrated if a unit I was using had much less grunt than this box. DV, well that was a different story, the box screamed through DV like no tomorrow.
Chris Young
CYV Productions
Sydney