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[goofytinkerbell]

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[Imzadi]

If you have a Windows 10 computer it comes installed with a program simply called (Microsoft's) "Video Editor." Click on the Start button in the left corner of your screen and scroll down to the "V'"s. It should be listed there.

You can insert photos at the start or a title card if you want, then add videos, edit them down to the sections you want, or the length you want. Split them so you can edit some middle parts out, add more photos etc. There should be many tutorials on line on how to do it or some YouTube tutorials.

It may take you some time to figure it out the first time, so be patient and reserve some hours to learn it. I copy various art lessons online, especially live videos by fellow professional artists and then cut out all the extraneous talk and waving to people as they show up to watch, etc. I often cut an hour and a half live video down to the necessary 22 minutes or so of instruction and demos that I really want, from beginning to end. This is for my personal use only. This way it doesn't take up so many megabytes on my computer. It can take me now 20 minutes or so to edit it, and I know what I'm doing now.

Windows 8 computers and lower have something called "Movie Maker" which does about the same thing. Although, I don't know if photos can be added.

Mac computers have something similar installed.

 

[sam_gordon]

They might be more than what you're looking for, but look at Lightworks and Davinci Resolve. I've used them both for basic editing of soccer games.

Resolve is powerful, and I'm not crazy about the render time (5 hours for a 100min video), but I also have it on "best" quality, probably not necessary since I'm just posting to YouTube. I haven't experienced to try to cut down the render time yet.

Lightworks is limited to 720p videos for the free version. Again, not a huge deal.

 

[goofytinkerbell]

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[Imzadi]

Thanks! Video Editor looks like the replacement for "Windows Movie Maker", which is what I was just going to use in the first place. I'd used it years and years ago, so I'm not completely unfamiliar. I also work in tech, so learning generally comes quick, but this is just way outside of what I normally do

Video Editor can make videos in 1080p.

 

[_19disnA]

If doing this as a business, I think in the long run you would be better off with software that is not free/shareware, but a purchased & supported product. You have no idea how formats will change going forward and with shareware you might be stuck with software that no longer works or worse yet, the videos you provided your customers no longer play. Shareware is fine for individual home use, but not something I would use if running a business.

There are various output formats for video (much like .pdf files for documents) that allow for playback of a video.

 

[goofytinkerbell]

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[andersrer]

I began the video editing with Davinci Resolve and Movavi video editors. Both of them have trial periods, so you can easily use them, especially if you dont looking for 4k.