Not sure what program to use

[icematt]

First, thank you for taking the time to read this.

I am a teacher and want to make a Remembrance Day presentation for my school. However, I am not sure what program I should use to create it. I am using a PC.

We have interviewed a graduate who went on to fight in Afghanistan. He gave us about 20 minutes of footage which I want to condense to about 5 minutes.
He also gave me thousands of photos and video clips to add to the presentation.

I was thinking I could use PowerPoint, but am not sure it would be able to handle what we want it to.

We want the presentation to fade into pictures and video (muted) as he answers the questions.

We also want to be able to incorporate 'Last Post' and the text to 'In Flanders Fields' within the presentation.

My question is... what program should I use for this? TMPGenc? DVD LAB PRO?
I suppose something that is comparable to 'I MOVIE' for MAC...

Here is where I become a luddite!

Please point me in the right direction, once there, I am confident I can figure out the gist of it. But there are too many choices and I don't know what to use.

Thanks,
Matt

[BJ_M]

premiere

sony vegas

ulead VideoStudio

one of the above will work fine

[mats.hogberg]

...or Windows Movie Maker (if you're on a tight budget). Just remember to save often, as it has a tendency to crash when you least want it to...

/Mats

[icematt]

thanks for the ideas. I just tried Movie Maker. It crashed every time I tried to import a file...
Any other ideas or suggestions...?
thanks.
Matthew

[Scorpion King]

Ulead VideoStudio

Probably the fastest and easiest learning curve of most any editing program i've tried. You can download the program as trialware and I think it will work like normal for 30 days which should give you time to either create your project or decide if you can.

If you need help just post, we'll try.

Good luck.

[mats.hogberg]

I just tried Movie Maker. It crashed every time

Well, there is that. Sure you got MovieMaker 2? (Free upgrade for genuine Windows) Had WMM1 do the same, but WMM2 is more stable (or less unstable).

/Mats