It's not really 'simple', but Resolve is hugely powerful and free for the basic version. https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/uk/products/davinciresolve/
Like any video editing package you'll need to learn the basic terms, but there are some good tutorials to help you on You Tube.
Most photographers entering video are looking for a fast way to learn and edit.
Regardless of what nle software you chose the biggest investment you will make is not the computer, monitor, camera or drives.
The biggest investment is the time it takes to learn it, whether it’s Corel, premiere, Avid, FCPX, or Da Vinci Resolve. All will probably do the job, all will take time to learn or in other words, motion editing is the black hole of time. You can go into the suite (or today the laptop) on Monday and come out blurry eyes, stumbling around on Friday night.
Personally I would suggest investing my time into a suite that will work to industry standards and let you grow as you get better. You might think all you want to do is what you explained, no sound, or vo, no music score, or color correction, but just to get to that point on simple software will take time to learn and to work your way around it.
A more advanced EDL will probably take about the same time to get the basics down, though if your going to invest the time, IMO it’s better to invest the time in a professional suite so your not limited as you grow.
It doesn’t matter what your editing, the idea is to get people to view it in it’s entirety. If it is successful, you’ll want to expand and do more and probably more elaborate.
My suggestion would be to download the free version of DaVinci Resolve. It gives you most of what the paid version offers, the editing is as easy as Corel or any NLE and it’s free.
Then if you want to go further, you always have the option to spend $300 U.S. and have a whole suite that allows you to do virtually anything as you move up stream.
The only downside of Resolve is it can take a powerful machine with a large graphics card, though once you learn the settings, you can set the viewing at a lower resolution, or offline with proxies and it will run fine on a lower spec machine, then for output put the output settings at whatever resolution you want.
The upside with resolve is in one suite you can color correct, track anything moving and learn with true professional terms and workflow.
I quickly looked at a few minutes of a tutorial of Corel and it seems pretty good, but probably takes just as much time to learn and refine as a professional suite.
You may never need all of what resolve offers, like color grading, but if you chose the proper codec,
https://blog.frame.io/2017/02/15/choose-the-right-codec/#codec-edit from acquisition to intermediate codecs to output, the more you learn, the more you use.
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Comparison between resolve (free version) vs. studio (paid full version)
https://flavioggarcia.com/2018/04/24/davinci-resolve-free-version-limitations/But like cameras, or computers, most NLE’s work fine as long as your learned on what Codecs to use, how you distribute and will it be a system that allows you to stay updated.
I also like the fact that resolve allows you to buy it with no subscription model. As I mentioned it’s $300 today for version 15. I started on version 8 and think I paid a little under $1,000 which may seem high, but resolve use to not be on a standard computer, but required a whole room. Actually, I’ve gone through about 4 updates and with the dongle that comes with the studio version, all updates are free.
IMO
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