I am just about to shoot my first documentary as a learning excercise. I have chosen MediaStudio 8 (on my PC) as the eventual editing software as I used earlier versions several years ago and liked the ease of use.

My plan at the editing stage is to use the PC connected to a TV to monitor things as I go, then burn the finished documentary straight to DVD. I think this is all we need for now - the capacity to view on an external monitor.

I'd like some recommendations as to which card to use, up to about $300. My PC is a few years old (Pentium 4 2.4g, with 1 GB of RAM). It does have Firewire already as I use it primarily for music production.

An ATI All-In-Wonder is very useful. Theater Mode plays fullscreen video via the TV-outs so you can monitor what you are doing as you go along.

Thanks Stephen. I have googled and ebayed for the All In Wonder and have the following results:

http://shop.ati.com/searchresults.asp?dept_id=16

http://search.ebay.co.uk/search/search.dll?sofocus=bs&sbrftog=1&fstype=1&catref=C6&from=R10&satitle=ATI+All+In+Wonder&sacat=-1%26catref%3DC6&bs=Search&sargn=-1%26saslc%3D3&sadis=200&fpos=Postcode&ga10244=10425&ftrt=1&ftrv=1&saprclo=&saprchi=&fsop=1&fsoo=1

There's several models available - is there one that would be particularly suited to my needs or are they all much the same? As some of them seem geared to gaming I may not need all the bells and whistles provided.