1. CyberLink PowerDirector:

CyberLink PowerDirector 8 is a top quality home video production suite. It allows you to easily create and produce professional looking movies with a user-friendly interface and shallow learning curve. The user interface for CyberLink PowerDirector is fairly intuitive, even for first time users. The latest version has some massive improvements to the performance of the application and contains more effects and design tools than ever before.

2. Magix Movie Edit Pro:

Magix Movie Edit Pro is an excellent movie-editing suite which caters for amateur enthusiasts as well as users who require more professional functionality. It combines an amazing number of features, effects and extra content into one easy to use package, which provides you with professional looking results with the minimum of effort. It is difficult to fault this application with its modern, dynamic user interface, extensive compatibility options and inherent user friendliness.

3. Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum Pro Pack:

Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum Pro Pack is a powerful home video editing suite which delivers professional quality results. This is the top end of Sony’s home studio range, one step below their industry level application, and has all the extra bells and whistles you would expect. The user interface is great to use and allows even relative novices to create professional looking videos.

4. Corel Video Studio Pro:

Corel VideoStudio Pro X2 is a good quality video editing suite aimed at home users. The Pro X2 version is at the top end of Corel’s home video editing suite range and includes lots of features that allow amateur enthusiasts to create professional looking movies. The interface is easy to learn and several useful behind-the-scenes technical features mean that the software can still run quite smoothly on slower PCs. The application is also on sale at the moment which means you can get it for a more than reasonable price.

5. Adobe Premiere Elements:

Adobe Premiere Elements is a very powerful and intuitive home video editing suite. It is essentially a version of the professional level Premiere Elements aimed at home users who don’t want to have to get involved with the real technical nitty gritty of producing a movie. It allows you to have as much control over the editing process as you want, while still making it easy to get good looking results quickly and easily. The latest version has a lot of improvements over previous ones and is definitely worth a look for anyone interested in home movie editing.

6. Pinnacle Studio:

Pinnacle Studio Plus from Avid is high-end consumer video editing software. The program comes with all of the standard editing features, as well as some unique perks, such as the ability to work with HDTV video format and original transitions and sound effects. It is perfect for beginners due to its simple user interface. Even with a user-friendly interface, Pinnacle Studio Plus is still a complex program. Because it offers so many features, options and is so customizable.

7. Roxio creator:

This is an ideal application for anyone who doesn’t need to go into any great depth in the functions that Roxio Creator performs and wants everything neatly bundled together in one package. It includes easy-to-use video, photo and audio editing tools. Its new feature is streaming video capture that allows user to plug in digital camcorders and burn content directly to DVD without having to first save data to the hard drive.

8. ArcSoft ShowBiz DVD:

Arcsoft ShowBiz DVD is a simple, basic, but effective video editing application that would best suit people who don’t want to spend a lot of time editing movies, but want a decent looking final cut. ShowBiz is easy to use, even the first time, and you can quickly copy and burn videos. The only downside is it does not offer a good variety of publishing formats beyond DVDs.

9. Corel DVD Movie Factory:

Corel DVD Movie Factory sits on something of a mid-way point between being a video editing tool and a DVD copying and burning tool. It does both tasks rather well but, like most combined packages, you don’t get the full depth of each function like you would with standalone applications.

10. Power Producer:

Power Producer is a scaled-down version of our top-ranked product, PowerDirector. It can capture video from digital or analog camcorders and burn to CDs and DVDs, but does not include as many advanced editing features as PowerDirector.The program has the ability to add music to video and can import images and create slideshows. You can also add color inversion, trim, merge, split scenes, create menus, and add backgrounds and titles. The Write-to-Disc feature enables you to simply capture, convert and burn a CD or DVD in one step without edits.Although this software package lacks some advanced features, it is a solid program, includes all the basic editing functions and supports a wide array of formats.