hello we have been working with the canon xl1 in combination with dv-edit from digital origin, although we found their support dropping to a low level, we like the hardware - software combination very much we use an 9600 powermac together with atto uw-scsi interface and two external 9 gb seagate barracuda harddisks, with the xl1 yuou can play back your dv signal into the camcorder,without any problems(posted 9027 days ago)