> titles, transitions and add music to your movie.
Windows Movie Maker does that. Most anything does.
IMHO, the interfaces on most of these programs are opaque to a beginner. And once you grasp the idea of a timeline with tracks, then every program puts the same tools in different places.
I got a palm-size video camera, and it came with mostly-functional small-window editing software free. If you just want to trim the dull parts, that would do it.
> catures video from many different devices, including old VCR tapes.
Pinnacle's core-racket is the hardware needed to import video signals to PC. Their software and hardware work well together.
WMM's understanding of many video sources depends on drivers, often supplied by low-bid hardware makers and hard to know which of the too-much buggy software you need. (This is probably true if you use Pinnacle software with non-Pinnacle hardware: it may not refuse, but why should it be too helpful?)
Pinnacle also has decades of title and wipe tools and templates, WMM just has the basics (which is more than Hollywood had in the classic film era).
> menus
If you mean creating the menu for the DVD... that's way outside WMM's realm. It makes the movie, as a file. It predates DVD-R. It may know how to write a CD which many PCs will play. I see the $49 Pinnacle has as much DVD Authoring as any newbie could need. Nero also does DVD Authoring, but it has so much else that the PC waddles like a pig and it is hard to know what to do for a basic menu. But Jukel was just asking "video editing".
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