Hi Folks! Lady Cherry, You might also take a look at Adobe After Effects (the latest version is 4.1). I find it handles placing and manipulating still images and audio a bit more fluidly than its brother Premiere, which I tend to use more for simply splicing movies together. After Effects also allows you to create special effects to your movies using Photoshop filters and layers, although I think the latest version of Premiere now allows you to use Photoshop filters and plug-ins. If you're willing to do a little bit of digging--and if you're using a Mac--there's a neat little program that provided some decent movie and sound editing features at a fraction of the cost and RAM requirements of Premiere and Avid Cinema. It's called QuickFlix! and was made by the old Radius Co. My version still runs pretty well, even on OS 8.5; check out some of online boards or do a QuickFlix keyword search and maybe you can locate a copy. Hope this helps. Peter (Dr. Zik)