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Actually I started with Microsoft movie maker that comes free with windows. It seemed OK at first, but then I remember that it did a couple of things that I wanted to do really, really poorly. I don't remember exactly what it was at the time, but I wanted to find something better and figured there must be a good free program out there, so I started to look at the open source stuff and wasted a bunch of time. There might be something good out there for free, but I didn't find it.
I assume you have PCs, so it does make sense to try the free Microsoft program first. Also Sony and Adobe offered something like a one month free trial license for their programs. I tried the Sony program and liked it. I found a deal with a rebate at the time, and bought the Sony program for around $90 after the trial period was over.
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