Video Editing Programs .... starting with the ones I like best.

VirtualDub - is a free basic editing program, that has no fancy techniques, but is fast and easy to use for basic trim and clean up activities. It is mainly for editing/cutting AVI files, and can also read MPEG-1.

PEGASYS Inc. TMPGEnc DVD Author - Yes you have to pay for this one, but the price is reasonable and it is a no brainer to use. If all you do is capture video and cut our the bad parts and put them together again, this is the one to use. Once all the pieces are put together again, it takes less than an hour for it to assemble & save the results as DVD files. Then in approximately 18 minutes it records the DVD with the built in DVD author. Much faster than other programs I have tried.

Womble MPEG Video Wizard - is the one to use if you have some editing to do. Video Wizard allows you to adjust sound track volumes, add sound tracks, adjust and split the video clips and so on. Has a very easy interface to use, and the learning curve is short. Again a small price has to be paid to use it but it does most everything the average person would want that is just putting small programs together or is transferring VHS tapes to DVD.

Both of these programs have trial versions where you can check out if it works for you. The VCD help link above has all kinds of info on the products along with user comments.

More programs to be added in the future. .