Sony has dvgate and sonic for image editing and of course winxp has moviemaker. I just bought a panny 120 3 cdd for the same price I would have gotten a sony 1ccd. Now i want to edit movies.

I tried premirre and it was over my head and tried pinnacle and it crashed on me all the times. are sony software imaging any good.

or should i try primere elements or even movie maker?

Personally, i'd havea fiddle with movie maker first, to get used to the basics, then buy premiere elements.

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I played with moviemaker and I went to settings and transfer the movie as an avi file to my sonydvd and I burn a dvd. The resolution came out terrible, I think my vhs tapes looked better.

What did I do wrong?

You need to change the quality/bitrate.

I'm not familiar with movie maker, but there is probably something in the setting which lets you control the quality.

Anyone?

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Where did you save the final product to your computer or back to your camera? Are you show you captured in .avi? Do me a favor left click on a clip and give me (us) the file extension and the bitrate of the clip.

I learned on MovieMaker and made some decent films.

If you want to start out with something that isn't too expensive or too complicated, but has a lot of versatility and is fairly simple to use, I'd go to your nearest software store and buy a copy of Sony Vegas Movie Studio (with DVD Architect included).