1. Adobe Premiere Pro

http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/main.html

Real-time editing for professional video production

Adobe® Premiere® Pro software is a revolutionary nonlinear video editing application. Powerful real-time video and audio editing tools give you precise control over virtually every aspect of your production. Built for the exceptional performance of Microsoft® Windows® XP systems, Adobe Premiere Pro takes video production to an entirely new level.

2. Microsoft Movier Maker
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/moviemaker/downloads/moviemaker2.asp 

Windows Movie Maker 2 makes home movies amazingly fun. With Movie Maker 2, you can create, edit, and share your home movies right on your computer. Build your movie with a few simple drag-and-drops. Delete bad shots and include only the best scenes. Then share your movie via the Web, e-mail, or CD. Using third-party software you can even take movies you've made and turn them into DVDs. You can also save your movie back to the video tape in your camera to play back on a TV or on the camera itself.

Using both of these software packages you can produce short but professional digital stories complete with:

• transitions between images to simulate movement
  
• voiceover as an audio file to 'tell the story'
  
• a soundtrack to add impact to your storyline
  
• and special effects where required.

Digital Storytelling for VET

Adobe Premiere Pro is the preferred digital story making sofware by the Australian Centre for Moving Image situated in Federation Square, Melbourne. This is where a number of practitioners are currently undertaking training in Digital Storytelling methodologies by the ACMI Digital Story team with a view to preparing a suite of digital stories for educational purpose. The project "DST for VET' is being funded by TAFE frontiers and will involve participation by practitioners in three states:

Victoria

• one metropolitan TAFE (Swinburne)
  
• one regional TAFE (Wodonga)
  
• AMES
  
• Southern WesternPort Learning Community
  
• SkillsPlus Peninsula Inc.

South Australia

• one metropolitan  TAFE (DMIT)

New South Wales

• one private enterprise (Gecko Educational Services)