Adobe Premiere Elements, on the other hand, provides some of Premiere's best features with a much more manageable $100 price tag. If you want something that's both versatile and easy to use, however, you're going to have to shell out a few bucks.Īdobe Premiere Pro is one of the most popular choices among professional video editors, but its $800 price tag is admittedly not friendly for newcomers. They're free, so you have nothing to lose. Of course, if Kate's Video Toolkit or VSDC sound like a good fit for your needs, by all means, download them and try them out. Not that any of this is incredibly easy or intuitive, of course: Expect a lot of trial and error, combined with frequent trips to forums and infrequent support from the program's creators. VDSC has more features a veteran editor would expect, such as running two videos simultaneously (like the picture-in-picture feature on a TV), including multiple audio tracks (narration and a soundtrack) and being able to process a large variety of different video formats.

The Video Software Development Community (VSDC) Video Editor exists at the opposite end of the usability spectrum.

That's about the extent of it, and your time would probably be better spent learning how to operate Movie Maker. Kate's Video Toolkit allows you to trim clips and join them back together with rudimentary transitions. This program is easy to use, but makes Movie Maker look positively robust in comparison.

Imovie on chromebook