I feel for you. It must be a real blow. One thing I don't understand is how she managed to make a DVD if she couldn't capture the original footage.

My advice to you is to find a real local videographer explain your situation and get him to try and edit to footage for you. It will cost you but I hope you didn't pay the original person.

The learning curve is to great for you to do this job and by the time you have bought all the software, spent endless hours learning how to do things etc....

A professional will be able to do this for you and give you a much better end result.

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Every thing said by me should be taken with a pinch of salt. Unless you have high blood pressure, then I would recommend a salt substitute.