i have a sony vaio laptop and i was wondering what programs can i use to edit videos or what programs will work to edit them and what would i need in a camera or such because i want to make some cool car movies of street racing and such from stuff that goes on around my town and add music and stuff like that thanks..

Microsoft Movie Maker. Is easy to use.

Adobe Premier is pretty extensive. It's not hard to get the hang of for first time users.

And very expensive, but well worth it!

Song Vegas is what I used. The studio one is around $70 at like circuit city, but you could find it online. I used movie maker, but it is limiting. I transferred movie maker into Song Vegas and you can do much more. I just got Sony Vegas Premier or something of that name and it like $600. Same thing just more expensive and little more detailed in what can be done. I learned by tinkering around, I first used movie maker after I got a digital that takes video. I was at a wedding and after a month I was like well just bust out this digital and take some video of this wedding. So they didn't have a videographer so I made a DVD for them using movie maker, about 11 minutes long. I am now in the process of redoing it in the new expensive software. Give me some info and I'll see if I can make a copy of it for you for a same fee of the cd and time. I have since done a few other weddings and a two hour or longer dvd of my childhood to today from all vhs video. Movie maker limits you really quickly.