It’s now getting to be nig

It’s now getting to be nightmarish-

1. Moviemaker is a pain.
2. Roxio is a pain, though a little less
3. Jahshaka crashes each time I open DV-AVI.
4. I downloaded Prism, and it converts to MPEG-2, but there’s an annoying letterbox effect on left and right. Not to mention, some 16:9 videos are rendered as 4:3.
5. I downloaded Avidemux, but that cannot open DV-AVI files.
6. I’m trying to get the hang of using Blender’s VSE for now.