The software I have decided to use to produce my trailer is Pinnacle Studio 12. I decided to use this because although it is extremely good for editing videos with the various effects and transitions that are available it is very easy to use. 
All the tools I need for editing my trailer are on the bar at the side.
1. My footage
2. Transitions
3. Effects
4. Text for Trailer
5. Still pictures
6. Menu's (DVD only)
7. Sound Effects
8. Soundtrack
Before any editing though I had to transfer the footage I had filmed from the camera to the computer and into Pinnacle. Luckily, again Pinnacle made this easy for me as Pinnacle can do this for you.
Pinnacle then detects the scenes from the camera and splits the footage from the camera into those scenes which again helps me to save time as I can use/find the individual scenes easily instead of having to cut the scenes out of the whole video and edit them together.
I them transfered individual scenes onto the time line in the order I want to create my trailer. One issue I did find when doing this was finding out how to have to soundtrack playing while the sound from the original video was playing over it. On the party scenes I have sounds from the party as well as the sound track playing at the same time. To solve this issue I muted the sound in the original scenes, added sound effects onto the time line using the sound effects bar (on the time line 4th line down on picture to right) and had the sound track on the music bar. I then adjusted the volumes of both so that they could be heard.
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