it would be good to be using Hd cams, but to be honest, a good mini dv is easily capable of the job, and the file sizes of that hd footage was insane!!! it didnt even work properly for me by the time it had loaded 11 meg, it had run the 25 seconds.
As Tomm said, a decent mini dv, converted to mpeg (Y)
genreally good filesizes, good quality, everyones happy.
Tom