Wanted to say thanks to all the guys who responded here, it really helped me make my decision. I tried almost every software package that everyone recommended. I downloaded and tried the windows movie maker, adobe priemiere elements, Adobe Premiere 1.5, Roxio, Nero, Vegas, Pinnacle Systems Studio Plus 9 as well as a couple of others. This being my first try at video editing I was looking at something with enough features to satisfy my geek side, but not too much to make me never want to do it again.

Adobe Premiere 1.5 really had me never wanting to do video editing again. The software was overly complicated for the person just trying to create some simple videos and put them on a DVD.

I liked adobe elements alot, it was quick and simple, but does not create VOB files for DVD's in the software, if it did I missed it and tech support at adobe did not know about it either.

Windows Movie Maker was a snap to use and very easy to manipulate, had alot of features that I really loved, but the one thing I did not see was the ability to create menus or an option to create DVD's with the VOB formatted files.

I then got a opy of Pinnacle Studio Plus 9. It was easy to use, very comprehensive, great features, lets me create and customize menus, and it will create the VOB formatted files straight from the program. To ensure how easy of a program it was to use, I showed my wife (the most computer illiterate person I know) some of the basic features and asked her to create a DVD. I took her about 2 hours to produce a 15 minute movie in Studio Plus but she was able to do it without asking me one single question. Now that is a simplified program. I figured for the 100.00 that it cost, it was well worth the price.

Now my wife has used it a couple of times and she is able to create a 15 minute video in about 30 minutes now, minus rendering times.

Also, I have the software installed on my laptop which is running a Intel 2.2Ghz Celeron processor, 1 GB of ram, 64 Mb Video Card, and a 80 GB 7200 RPM hard drive. It takes me roughly 2 hours to render about 1 hour and 15 minutes worth of video. I have also found a neat little program that will let me shrink down 2 hours of video to fit on one DVD without losing any quality. It's called DVD Shrink. It will shrink down any size files (VOB files that is) to fit on a DVD but the higher the compression the worse the video starts to become.

Well this is just my 2cents worth. I wanted to say thanks again and you guys really helped me over a hurdle with choosing a software.