Older Mac - will HD editing work?

I have the original flat panel mac which works perfectly for my needs except I now want a Sony HD camcoder (HDR-HC3), and I'm concerned iMovie HD won't work.
I realize that in order to use iLife 6 for iMovie HD, one needs to have a 1 Ghz system -- mine is only 800mhz. I have 1 gig of RAM and about 300 gigs of external HD space available, running OS 10.4.8.
Has anyone successfully used iMovie HD on a 800 mhz machine? Does the extra RAM help in any way?
Thanks in advance.
iMac Flat Panel   Mac OS X (10.4.8)   1 GB RAM, Airport Extreme, Airport Express

I haven't tried HD on an 800MHz Mac, but importing will really -c-r-a-w-l- ..that's because iMovie tries to convert on-the-fly the incoming HD into Apple's Intermediate Codec, for editing in iMovie.
It will probably import, but at a quarter real time speed, or so.
That means waiting a -l-o-n-g- time for importing to finish.
Just cutting scenes may be OK, but adding transitions may be very slow, as they have to be built at higher than normal resolution ..there's 4x more detail in HD clips than in normal Standard-Def video.
So it may work ..but it'll be an agonisingly -s-l-o-w- process..
NOTE that I have tried on 1GHX and 1.33GHz PowerPC (PowerBook G4) computers, and HD imported at quarter speed on those. I tried a dual processor and quad processor at my local Apple Store: the quad imported in real time with about 2GB RAM, so I bought one with 4 GB RAM. That does work in real time. (I haven't tried it on Intel Macs.)

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