Since I don't own a camcorder and haven't looked into them, I'm not a good one to answer that.
For the computer, one a bit faster than my P3-600 would be better. I'm at the low end for editing video. A 1Ghz or better processor would be ideal. The biggest and fastest hard drives you can get are also good as video takes up huge amounts of space. (For example, a 1 hour TV show capped at 352x240 takes about 12GB). You also need a way to get the video into the computer. For getting it off a camera, I think they use firewire. Again, though, I haven't done anything like that.
If you asked some questions at the Desktop Video World forums, you might have some better luck.
http://forums.matroxusers.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=7Hope that helps,
Michelle
>Hi Michelle,
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>I plan to buy some digital video equipment for leisure. What DV camcoder would you recommend? What computer does it take to do decent video editing?
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>Sincerely,
