Hello guys, I really need your help to do my assignment here.
It is a group assignment and we're supposed to come up with a new product. then, we need to make a 30 second ads about our product. I am not from any Multimedia college or whatsoever, so there's noone to guide me.

so firstly, sorry if this is the most redundant questions ever, but anyway here it goes..
I need your guys opinion on what's the most simplest video editing software that an idiot like me can use but still can do the fancy fancy stuff for the ads?

I plan to record the video from a DVD video camera (panasonic vdr-d150), and I'm not sure what's the video format.

so yeah, anyone?