I have a Sony Handycam with a hard drive. If I put my footage on my DVD recorder connected by the yellow, white and red plugs, will it not be a digital picture? Is it better quality if you do it on the PC?

I want to do it on my PC, as I can only edit it on the DVD recorder if I use a DVD RAM disc, but I use DVD-R discs for other people, as they can't all use DVD-RAM discs on their players. But I'm having trouble figuring out which video editing software will allow me to cut several parts out of one movie clip.

No, red white and yellow are analog, although the quality should still be OK.

Any Video editing software will chop and re-arrange clips, including Windows Movie Maker built into windows. If you want to do more complicated things like overlaying music or split-screen you'll need to buy something a bit more sophisticated such as Sony Vegas or Premier Elements.

Don't forget DVD authoring is a separate process, and whatever editor you chose ideally needs to be able to do this aswell.

Would would recommend imovie 09is you have a mac that is!

Yellow, White and Red plugs are usually Composite Video, Left Audio and Right Audio. That's fine for stereo audio, but is the lowest quality analogue method for video.

Check if your camcorder can output the video in either an S-Video format (this uses two cables for the video) which is far better than Composite, or ideally Component Video (which uses three cables for the video) and gives a further slight improvement over S-Video.

All those ways of transferring video are analogue, but if that is all your camcorder can output then that is what you will need to use. By far the best way of improving quality will be to use something other than Composite video to transfer the video from the camcorder to another device.

There is probably a way of transferring the video digitally to a PC which is better than any analogue method, but you'll need to check the camcorder's instruction manual for how to do it.