MV DZ580A - Fire Wire Connectivity?

Because you're camera stores the video in MPEG format on the 8cm DVD you don't need firewire speed to capture to your computer. The camera only has a USB interface as it does not need to transfer as much as a DV camcorder.

To edit your movies on your computer you will need to use the bundled DVD MovieAlbum-SE software to do at least the first step which is exporting your DVD-RAM (or R) format clips to MPEG files.

Once you have your clips in MPEG format you can use pretty much any of the available movie editing packages. I've just bought Pinnacle Studio 9 after playing with the trial version for the past month. A friend has been using it too and it looks good and does the job well.

Good luck,

George