"Vidding" software

[primeideal]

I'm interested in making a very simple video edit, probably just still photos with a musical song in the background. Maybe a few seconds of video footage mixed in here and there. These would be my own pictures, so I don't need to (for instance) clip a professional recording or edit it down.

I have a new Windows 10 laptop (much improved over my old one but that is another story). Can anyone recommend cheap, accessible software that might be useful for this?

Comments

[jjhunter]

You may want to try cross-posting this to the vidding comm to reach more vidders directly - I'm afraid my own knowledge consists of going to a vidding panel at con.txt last year (which was brilliant! and I wish I knew the DW usernames of the two presenters.)

[melannen]

DaVinci Resolve is fully free, and will do all the things you need it to do. It will do a lot of other things too though, and I didn't find it super easy to learn.

(If someone knows of something modern but at about the level of the old Windows Movie Maker I would love to try it.)

[luckyzukky]

kdenlive is free but in my experience has a bit of a learning curve so it probably isn't the best for beginners. shotcut is pretty good and definitely easier than kdenlive but i've only used it a few times so i'm not really sure lol

[seekingferret]

Kdenlive and Shotcut are both open source, and I believe both now work on Windows. I haven't used Shotcut but I gather it's easier than Kdenlive... but Kdenlive has the advantage that if you need help, you can feel free to bug me.

[beatrice_otter]

I've never used Kdenlive, but I've used Shotcut, and it's free and works well. I use it for really basic stuff, but when I try to do more complicated stuff the tutorials and documentation aren't often very helpful.

[blueshiftofdeath]

Thirding Shotcut; I used it for fanvids for years. It can be buggy, but for something simple like what OP wants, I think it would be perfectly fine!

[grammarwoman]

VLC Media Player is a free tool you can use, downloadable here. Here's a how-to guide; if that doesn't suit, there are a bunch of others.