A picture is worth a thousand words, but a video tells the whole story. Video editing used to be considered something that pros with years of experience do. However nowadays that is not the case. Simple and easy to use video editing computer software makes it easy for an armature to churn out professional quality video edits and effects.
Nowadays a professional setup is not requiring editing home videos. All you need is a computer pentium4 or higher and 1GB or more of ram. Good video editing software can be purchased for under $100. You might however need to take some timeout to initially learn the software if you are new to video editing but that will eventually pay off.
The software you opt to use can range from under $100 to free software you can download off the internet. However free software has limited or no documentation so you probably might end up pulling out your hair if you can’t get something to work as you wanted. Windows XP and higher is accompanied with windows media editor a free video editing software with simple and limited amount of tools.
Picking the right software really depends upon your requirements.