Thread: Video editing program

If you have a Windows PC, I'd say just try using M$s Movie Maker.
It's a default install on Win 7 and 8, and may be optional when installing Win10.
If you have Win10, and don't have Movie Maker, go to the store and download it.

FWIW: it's not a good video editing program, but made for people with zero skill and for those with very little interest as well.

ie. as long as you know where you have your video files saved too, I doubt you'll go wrong in using it. That is, it's very basic and you'll outgrow it very quickly.

Once you get to the point where you want to do more than Movie Maker allows, at least you'll have some experience up your sleeve to know which freeware software will be better for you.

Ean, this gives you a few suggestions:

The best free video editor 2018 | TechRadar

I've messed around with the free version of DaVinci Resolve in the past, which seemed OK - but I haven't really done much video editing.

I've done a fair amount of video editing(years back), and thinking back to when I first started .. I'd say that a full featured video editing program may be counter productive for Ean's needs(to begin with)
By his own admission, he's never done it, and wants basic.

Hence why I suggested Movie Maker.
It's workflow is a 'guided tour' method, which helps the inexperienced.
With all the others you need a basic understanding of how to 'build a project'.

For a more full featured editor, I'd go with Tech Radar's recommendation of shotcut.

I started with Movie Maker and it works fine for what I do and I also have AVS Video Editor (cheap I think but maybe not free) on a crappy old laptop - which also does what I need it to do as well. AVS has little built in video guides as well which was handy for a novice like me. Not sure if either are any good if you want whiz bang stuff but for chopping up a file from a drone or similar, adding a few bits and pieces they both works ok and were easy enough to get my head around after a bit of playing, but I'm certainly no expert - far from it.

Well I retract what I said about Movie Maker - I can't keep the bloody program running long enough to make it work much, and what I do manage to do seems to render incorrectly when I save it so the transitions and other features are incorrect when I have finished.

Will try something else - I am trying to do 4K video at the moment which seems a bridge too far for it (The machine I'm running it on doesn't seem to be breaking a sweat with all performance data showing it's idling away while working on things). Even a click to another part of the video will see it crash and close.

Any suggestions on fixing this?

I'll download DaVinci Resolve and see what that's like.

Check out LightWorks. It is absolutely brilliant, is fully featured and best of all, it's free for single, non commercial users. It has been used to make full production cinema release movies, but is perfectly accessible by amateurs.

Lightworks: The professional editor for everyone

Also, Movie Maker is no longer supported by MS since 2012 I think, and cannot be downloaded except from 3rd party sites. MS warns against this.

Maybe try this: avidemux download | SourceForge.net

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