User-friendly video editing software - suggestions?

TheVoice · 5 Aug 2013 at 11:07

Hi all, my mother is looking to start making and editing her own scrapbook tutorial videos soon to publish on YouTube. She's got a good camera, but the aspect that's most daunting to her at the moment is editing it all together.

Any recommendations for a piece of software (free/cheap is better at this point) that she might be able to get to grips with fairly easily? I've dabbled with Windows Live Movie Maker myself a few times and although it's fairly basic, I'm not convinced it's really all that user-friendly as it can take a bit of fiddling when it comes to editing/re-arranging clips.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

pryere · 6 Aug 2013 at 13:07

I know what you mean, it does take some time to get used to.
Do you know that the earlier version is available that is a lot more user friendly?

http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=34

Genoma · 6 Aug 2013 at 17:41

I really think you are going to struggle to find something much simpler than WMM.

TheVoice · 9 Aug 2013 at 12:12

Hmm, that's what I was worried about. WMM is obviously simple, but I just didn't really feel it was very intuitive. I'll tell her to give it a go though and see how she finds it. Thanks guys.

aslco · 12 Aug 2013 at 00:00

Adobe Premiere Elemtns is alright. Quite powerfull but can be used lightly too

diddy-e · 17 Sep 2013 at 11:09

I use Movie Edit Pro and for a beginner like me I find it an easy video editing software to use. I also get the impression that is a lot more functionality within the software so as my skills advance the software will remain useful.

Nexus · 17 Sep 2013 at 11:30

I'd also think Windows Movie Maker is your best bet for a beginner, or iMovie if she can get on a Mac.