Ulead Videostudio 7

I spent less than 5 hours to learn how to use this product, and afterward I understand the basics and start to edit my first DVD home movie with music background and everything runs smoothly. The user interface is intuitive. Even after 5 hours of studying, I am able to understand the flow. The PDF manual is quite good, if I have problems I can easily find out from this manual. You can import media and edit it, once you start your project, the software automatically goes to the capture mode, so if you have a firewire hooks up to a Sony/Cannon camorder, you will have total control of this camorder, and start downloading. One word of caution downloading takes a lot of CPU power. This step is very easy, and the software does it all for you. The output audio is very good, and put Rock, folk, easy listening, New age music and they all sound good. On a larger project, it may get slow,in my case I have a AMD 2200 system, 1 GB of Ram, and 200 GB of hard drive, so for me is a little slow while doing editing and previewing, but it still does it job well. So I think if I update my machine to more than 3 ghz, I think Ill be fine. I had one crash, and it probably runs out of virtual memory; all I did was just to reboot my system and I am fine. But one thing to remind is to save you file frequently. The feature sets are very rich for regular home users. I have no complaint for a product that is less than $89, for my case I got it with my capture card. Overall, the money for this product is wll spent, and I am very happy with it. Since I have no problems with it, I never call the tech support, so I have no comments on this. BTW, you dont need to be a rocket scientist to understand this product, this is a real good deal for home movie editing.