Suitable Software??? Editing/Authoring

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Please, I need help in finding suitable editing/authoring software please, I'm getting tired of downloading & trialing software only to find it lacks features. Any help/suggestions/advice greatly appreciated. I'm not wanting to do extremely fancy stuff, am only an amateur, just want to create dvd's of home video camera footage & have a good result. Thnx in advance Requirements: searching for something that does the following, as have heaps of vhs videos & video camera footage to convert to DVD: - recognises capture device from Aldi (Medion Audio/Video Grabber Kit USB 2.0, MD 90041) which is used with a VHS Video Player & a Samsung Hi8 Tape Video Camera - works for WinXP (at least) - multiple trimming manually (not just with scene detection as using Hi8 not DV) eg: remove many chunks of footage from anywhere in the clip - customisable menus: change size/colour/quantity of text, thumbnails, chapters/titles, etc, be able to select which titles/chapters have menus attached (eg: if can only capture a video in 2 parts dont want it to create 2 menus) & don't want every chunk (trimmed) to be a chapter/title - subtitles (eg: add scores to a footy game recorded on video camera) - add jpgs with text or something (eg: add date/time/subject info for 3secs b4 associated footage, so if just put DVD in & press play & it plays to the end, can tell what each section is, instead of having to go back to the menu again to see if can figure out what section of video it relates to NeoDVD 7.1 Trial: - can't add text/subtitles to clips - no multi-trim option - can only create footage for 1 menu page at a time (eg: if 5 pages of menus, have to create 5 differrent portions of footage) so inflexible for editing - no audio unless purchase extra software - can't resize menu text - can't change colours of highlight in menus (green) - can't change colour or type of navigation buttons - chapter adding inflexible, if create one in wrong spot, have to delete all & start again & can't auto-add at certain intervals after captured/edited - can't crop (VHS) footage (flickering at top/bottom) DVD ReMake 3 Trial: - can't get trial to work properly, menu just constantly flickers (highlights) thumbnail #1, won't play - no multi-trim option NeroVision Express 2 OEM: - menus crap - can't edit size of text, etc - audio crap, static/feedback sounds in preview & on dvd - can't put text anywhere like for a subtitle NeroVision Express 2 OEM: - menus crap - can't edit size of text, etc - audio crap, static/feedback sounds in preview & on dvd - can't put text anywhere like for a subtitle NeroVision Express 3 Trial: - menus crap - can't edit size of text, etc - audio still crap even if put at 33%, static/feedback sounds in preview & on dvd - can't put text anywhere like for a subtitle Sonic MyDVD 4.5 OEM - menus very limited - fails to import - capture error/failure DVD Lab 1.3.1 Trial - menus customisable which is great - limited trim (can only trim/crop from end, not multiple trims in middle of video) - can't preview audio & video at same time - no capture option DVD Lab 2 Trial - menus customisable which is great - limited trim (can only trim/crop from end, not multiple trims in middle of video), can apparently also trim unwanted parts (eg: ads) however it doesnt remove anything, just skips footage, so not very suitable. - no capture option Presto Video Works 6 OEM - no menus at all - no burn option - freezes & takes 10+ hrs to encode - no help - no replies from emails/submissions to tech support Ulead DVD Movie Factory 5 Trial - like the trim options - fails to burn (spent hours editing/trimming only to find burn fails with a very uninformative error) - menus not as editable/customisable as Ulead DVD Workshop - if join 2 clips (so only 1 menu item as by default a menu item is created for each clip), it adds 500Mb to file size, which is heaps for a 4.7Gb DVD - if I add one subtitle of 3 secs, it increases file size substantially as well - capture stops when reaches fuzzy/flickering section in video as it says it's copyright media, which it's clearly NOT, so instead of it keep recording, it stops & allows u to save what's already been captured, then have to find a section after this where it will allow to start recording again, so 1 video can end up being multiple clips with sections missing. Ulead DVD Work Shop 2 Trial - menus customisable which is great - limited editing (eg: cant trim multiple sections manually) - no audio - capture fails - uninformative error TMPGenc DVD Author 1.6 Trial - no audio, as need to purchase TMPGEnc sound plug-in ac-3 - only creates video files, not DVD itself, which isn't that much of a drama TMPGenc DVD Author 2.0 Trial - has audio - no capture - no filters/transitions/effects & think no text/subtitle options either - periodical licence validation required, don't like this, if buy it, shouldn't have to proove it many times over - creates DVD too - compiled project/DVD has huge black image (non-see through), can only see 1mm of footage at top & bottom, they consider this a 'watermark', can't see anything (eg: quality) Adobe Premiere Pro 2 Trial - can't capture, fails to recognise the capture device purchased from Aldi (Medion Audio/Video Grabber Kit USB 2.0) - can't import mpeg 2 files captured elsewhere, so renders this entire program useless as I can't add video - no idea if the real product has these issues too, but can't even test it, so trial useless Windows Movie Maker 2 - constantly crashes with no proper error message, just the standard WinXP error report asking if want to send it to MS Roxio Easy Media Creator 8 - NO TRIAL avail to download

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