When ever possible, work off the biggest and fastest hard drive you can. Digitizing to Zips or other removable disks is slow and dangerous. A fragmented drive can result in lost frames. Fusion 1.1 will let you trim a video's end and beginning. Computers struggle with digital video, even today, because it represents the media with the most information in it.
Digial video is a combination of sound and many still pictures a second.
This will get easier as the technology catches up with desire, but at the time of this writing, digital video is still time consuming and stuck in small windows with bad quality. Digital Video is different then regular tape video in three main ways. 1 Digital video does not loose quality when you make a copy. This is big. Regular video, like a photocopy, looses quality each time you make a copy.