Sorry to go against the trend here, but I find Pinnacle 8 very easy to use. I purchased a DVD writer 2 weeks ago and have been using Pinnacle 8 to capture video from my digital camera and create DVD's. I started with no experience whatsoever of video editing, and now have 4 DVD's burnt with menu's that work, overlaid titles and fancy transitions etc. I have had no problems with the package, bar burning the finished product to DVD, which I overcame using Nero.

I can put up with the fact that it takes "a few" hours to process the video prior to burning to DVD. Ideally I would like it to process faster, but I start it off and then go and do something else.

I am by no-means saying Pinnacle is problem free, but in my opinion it is easy to use and does what I want it to do. I certainly would not consider changing to another package.

AL