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Originally Posted by Tiffany Preston
I just take the free trial for Sony Vegas and it look very hard to use
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I am a noob with video editing and most of these packages have a challenging learning curve.
I use Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0. It is a cut down version of Adobe Premiere and is oriented to the non-professional who will be putting together a basic video by capturing scenes from your camcorder to PC using the firewire connection. It will allow you to edit scenes, insert transitions, make menus, and burn a DVD. It will handle HD but will probably work better in 480i. Your $3000 camcorder can downsize to standard definition....
You can go to Adobe.com and download it for free. It will produce a watermark on the outputted video. It is $99 retail and contains about 70% of features of Premiere Pro which is about $700.
There are a bunch of tutorials that will walk you through the basic features. Have fun.