A major drawback of camcorders which use mini DVD discs rather than MiniDV tape is editing - the camera records the footage as a standard DVD VOB structure, and so is not in an edit friendly format.
I've finally found a freely available solution that doesn't plaster nasty watermarks all over the footage - VirtualDubMod. It requires an additional codec to support DV, but it is quite simple and well described on videoforums.co.uk
Once the footage is converted from VOB to DV format avi, it can then be edited via the video editing software of your choice. I normally use Pinnacle (which seemed OK) but also wanted to try out Microsoft Movie Maker since that is what my parents will most likely use. The first converted file I tried opening caused it to crash - but that's probably a separate problem :)
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