home movie making

I've been looking for something to craft something coherent out of the +3 hours of footage I recorded from my trip to Hungary and other parts of Europe this winter. Anybody know of some great software that has easy tools for text, and stuff to make a nice intro sequence? If I had my way, I'd love to make a GTA-inspired sequence with cutouts displaying certain clips on a black background, but I know I might have to think smaller.

I remember using a great Apple program that could've done all this with ease, and had a bar-based audio system as well (meaning one bar for music, another for speech, etc.), though I don't remember the name of it. If anyone knows what I'm talking about, would you know of a Windows substitute?

Overall, I like DVD slideshow builder and will keep it as an alternative to use along with MS Photo Story 3 and MS Movie Maker. The MS duo has much better graphics, filters, etc and is more consistent in performance but the output options and more than 100 templates and built-in burning software that Wondershare offers makes it a worthy tool,i like burn the photos to dvd slideshow and display on TV not just share online.



AviDemux
is a free video editor designed for simple cutting-split-merge, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs.
You can download it from here
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Video-Editors/AviDemux-test.shtml
size is 9.9 MB


if you want to add fancy caption, transition,music dubbing etc. then use following- Videospin
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Graphic/Graphic-Editors/Pinnacle-VideoSpin.shtml