Video editing

[crowheart]

I recently bought a ZR 800 canon cam which I am starting to use now. I inquired about the cam on this forum a while back and decided to make the purchase based on the positive replies I received here . I am quite green at editing I really need some help in finding an easy to use editing tool. I want to make home movies and burn them to dvd. I tried Windows Movie Maker but I wasn't that impressed with the results ( the final result was very pixelated). I was going to try Vegas 8.0(seemed like a great program), but I don't have a lot of time to spend learning Vegas and DVD Architect. I have a Pentium 4 windows xp machine 2ghz with 2 gigs of RAM. I am looking for something to try that doesn't have a large learning curve and produces decent videos. I am willing to buy software as well. I would like to try out some programs before I purchase them though. Any leads or help would be appreciated...

Peace

[daamon]

Both the free all-in-one tools (AVI encoding to MPG and then DVD authoring) FAVC and DVD Flick have been regularly recommended recently.

[stantheman1976]

I started out using Ulead Video Studio for editing and TMPGEnc DVD Author for DVD creation. I think Ulead has a DVD authoring software also but I've never used it. Ulead and TMPGEnc are both fairly user friendly and not too hard to learn and they both give good results.

[JimboS]

Windows Movie Maker works very well...
!. you HAVE to save as a DV-AVI...(13 gig per hr)
2. Use another program (ie: Ulead Movie Factory..or others) to burn to DVD..
3. Unless you have VISTA then forget above...