I like Adobe Premeire for my movies that i edit. Adobe is great for me. You can do alot of stuff with it and once you get everything down it's not that hard to remember anything.
You need a firewire card and a free slot to stick it in, in your computer. the attached picture is a firewire card.
you also need a farely fast computer. You should have, at the bare minumium, 256MB of RAM. you can find how much your computer has at
http://www.crucial.com/store/listmfgr.asp?cat=RAM. Start by putting your computer maker in the box on the screen.
When you talk about "menus on the screens" do you mean like what a DVD has? do you want to make DVDs? if you want to make dvds, you need a DVD-R(W). These are pretty expensive if you get a good one. the actual DVD's that the movies go on are really expesive compared to normal CD's also. A DVD-/+RW that i randomly clicked on the best buy website is $129.99:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?id=1083714106539&skuId=6714521&type=product.
If you want to make the menus and you have the DVD-(+)R(W) rom, you will need DVD editing softwere. Adobe will just let you edit the movie but it won't let you put it to DVD (at least the version of adobe premiere i have). i don't know of any dvd editing softwere out there...
