First, the HV40, to my knowledge, records in HDV rather than AVCHD. There is a big difference. I can edit HDV realtime on my machine (an older quad core PC), but AVCHD eats its lunch. I don't know of any PCs or Macs that can edit AVCHD in realtime without specialized hardware. It's a great
recording format, but a lousy editing format. If you do get an AVCHD camcorder, I recommend that you ...