I've been struggling to edit AVCHD footage for a couple of months now but I'm going to give up gracefully having just realised that Vegas can't burn an AVCHD SD disc in any event.

I thought that Vegas could burn such a disc because the PMB software which came with my new Sony camcorder CAN make an AVCHD SD disc and I read that Vegas could deal with AVCHD but it turned out its very choppy to edit and can't burn AVCHD to SD disc.

Anyway, I think I'll bite the bullet and get myself a computer with a blue ray burner and here's the question. What spec computer do I need to get smooth AVCHD editing? I don't want to buy new hardware and still find editing the footage a nightmare.

Indeed is editing AVCHD always going to be a problem whatever the spec unless its a machine the size of NASA's

Thanks