I got started with homemade videos in the summer of '06 - using only my Canon PowerShot A620 (and later added a Canon PowerShot S3-1S). I was amazed at the video quality obtained from the cameras but...

I have tried using iMovie ('04, '06 and '08)- the first thing I noticed was the amount of time for these apps to "import" AVI files. Too much time spent "just waiting" for clips to appear in the clip-selection selection window - before any work (creative or otherwise) could proceed. Add to that that most of my homemade videos (while having decent picture quality) won't play on many DVD players and would contain "unintended" pauses and skips. - The end video product was just too crummy to justify the amount of *time!* I was spending to produce them

A friend recommended VisualHub to me late last year. Almost at once, I could see my work speeding up and I quickly learned the (simple) added features which iMovie provides with a lot more grief and a lot less clarity.

I made a mistake a couple times - setting the video size when recording to either 640 x 480 or 320 x 240 - but forgot which I had selected and changed it in the "middle" of my video shooting. Well, QuickTime can't change the "display size" of the original file to another size - but Visual Hub - CAN! I "rescued" two projects where I made that mistake by simply selecting the smaller size for those large (display) size cllps I shot in error. BTW - the small size means you get double the "minutes" of video on the same size SD memory card - and - there is no loss (that I can see) of quality in the final (DVD) videos. The VisualHub-produced DVDs play flawlessly: goodbye halts and skips!

"the GraphicConverter of Video" - only it costs less than the very versatile GraphicConverter.