Help What video editor is super-simple for a non-technical person?

[Paddy Landau]

Someone I know needs a super-simple video editor.

All that they want to do is take a really long home-made video (filmed on their phone), extract a few interesting clips, and throw away the rest. It is perfectly OK, even desirable, if the extracted clips are left as separate videos rather than being spliced together.

Every video editor that I've looked at has a whole range of fancy effects. None of that is needed. Just the ability to intuitively extract the interesting clips.

What can you suggest, please?

 

[Milo Williamson]

Someone I know needs a super-simple video editor.

All that they want to do is take a really long home-made video (filmed on their phone), extract a few interesting clips, and throw away the rest. It is perfectly OK, even desirable, if the extracted clips are left as separate videos rather than being spliced together.

Every video editor that I've looked at has a whole range of fancy effects. None of that is needed. Just the ability to intuitively extract the interesting clips.

What can you suggest, please?

Have you tried youtube, that is really a basic and simple video editor. I did it a few times on my channel around December.

 

[Paddy Landau]

Have you tried youtube, that is really a basic and simple video editor.

Thanks for the idea. The person doesn't have a YouTube channel, but I'll discuss this. It may be too complicated for her.

It might be better for me to take the video and do it for her, but I wouldn't necessarily know which clips she'd want to keep.

 

[kairarocky]

If you are non-technical person then i will recommend you use alight motion this is best video editor and simple or easy to use. go for it and main thing is it is free of cost

 

[Paddy Landau]

If you are non-technical person then i will recommend you use alight motion this is best video editor and simple or easy to use. go for it and main thing is it is free of cost

Thank you for the suggestion. I've just tried it. It reminds me of Audacity, but it's neither intuitive nor easy. I couldn't get it to play audio, nor could I find a way to clip an item. If I can't figure it out, then my friend won't be able to.

 

[Milo Williamson]

https://www.renderforest.com/blog/video-editing-basics Found something that is useful.

 

[Paddy Landau]

https://www.renderforest.com/blog/video-editing-basics Found something that is useful.

Thank you. That's a good article.

 

[Paddy Landau]

Thanks for the recommendation. I'll check it out.

 

[Milo Williamson]

Thanks for the recommendation. I'll check it out.

Not a problem Paddy.