Video editing software guide
- Follow our easy steps to burn home movies into DVDs
- Preserve wedding videos, home movies, and birthday parties as by saving to DVD
- Perform basic editing tasks, including: trimming shots and adding music, trailers and subtitles to your home videos
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Edit home videos using video editing software
Whether you want to make a wedding video, a fun home movie or just preserve old birthday and family videos, then this guide will provide you with a basic overview.
In this video we take a look at how to burn a DVD from video that has been taken on your digital camera, your camcorder, or even your mobile phone. The video editing software that we use is called Roxio Easy Media Creator Suite 10, and is reviewed in our video editing software report.
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Best camcorders
The camcorder that our footage was captured on is a JVC Envirio G model. This JVC model isn't a Which? Best Buy camcorder, but information about Best Buy models can be found in our camcorder review.
DVD burning software
By following the instructions in this video for video editing, then a DVD can be made using some DVD burning software. For information on which DVD burning software we recommend that you use, read our DVD burning software report.
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