Windows Movie Maker used to be good enough, but for a while now it won’t load mp4’s anymore and I can’t be bothered to try and fix it, and I’m really hating the online editors I’ve tried, so it’s time to download some software!
Seriously - nothing complicated, at most I’m snipping clips to size, or cutting something out, so I need an easy to navigate preview and simple cutting tools, I can’t even name any other editing action beyond “mixing” which I don’t even intend to do, so you get my level haha
TIA!
For your use case, I’d go with LosslessCut as opposed Shotcut, Openshot, etc.
The reason being that it is much simpler and faster to use, and generally results in smaller filesizes because you aren’t having to re-encode from scratch.
Always worth mentioning the free version of davinci resolve. It’s feature complete for your described needs, doesn’t hassle with things like watermarks, and the tools are great if you ever need to step up to something a little more robust.
OpenShot may be the closest equivalent I can think of to WMM. Either that or Kdenlive (which can be pretty complex).
Kdenlive
Avidemux is very basic, if a little unintuitive
