Final cut is also Mac only so that isn’t super useful to you per say.

Adobe Premiere Elements is an extremely powerful editing program, designed to be used by amateur editors. I would recomend using that. There is definitely a learning curve but it will work for what you want to use it for, and is probably the best software for someone that is going to be doing other projects like this one in the future.

As far as getting the video into your computer, if your camera has a firewire port that should allow you to download it into your computer. If it doesn’t then you are going to need some type of DVD ripper, that is a question for someone else to answer.

Hope that helps,
Tony

Well final cut is the best cause its indistry standard used to make movies like day after tommorow and such its also super easy. but sense your probably a windows user the adobe encore is the best but like you said its horrible