Hi there. Which video editor app you recommend for beginners? I am thinking of Davinci.

A few weeks ago, after an update from Canva, I noticed that it took me more time to edit my videos. Therefore I started looking at alternatives. DaVinci Resolve turned out to be too heavy for my laptops, so I tried Shotcut. So far, I am very pleased with the results. The editing takes me less time and I am learning a lot of new things. Following Alexa's 30-day challenge, I decided to create a short in Shotcut. The goal is to reach a new audience and convince them to watch the long form videos on one of my favorite topics. I could not link to a playlist directly, but have linked to the first video of the playlist and provided a link to the playlist in the pinned comment. Of course, I hope this will work as planned, but I think this video is already a winner given that I managed to make using a new to me video editing software.

I did it!!!! I created three shorts that link back to one long form video. I’m quite pleased with myself 😊. I’m sure it’s not perfect and I still have a lot to learn but I tried to put into practice the things I’ve learned. My long form video went live this morning (Friday). I have my three shorts scheduled to go out Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday.

This achievement might as well be the golden play button it feels so amazing! 1,000 people got value from something I said, 1,000 people spent their most treasured commodity, time, to watch my videos and 1,000 people connected with me on some level - how frickin' awesome is that?! I'm now going to celebrate by editing my next video🤣

This is something I have not done a lot, so I am not sure about the effect on the algorithm, but after Alexa's video today, I did it anyway. I published the video as a members-only video on Saturday for early access. Yesterday I made it public and had 400+ views (for context: the channel has 1500+ subscribers). The original title was: "How to save money when buying parts to upgrade your Miata". I changed that to: "Don't waste money when buying parts to upgrade your Miata". The goal was to give it more tension and spark curiosity. The Thumbnail remained unchanged, because I think it was fine already. It has only 4 words and survived the readability test when reducing it to a 120px width, which is the size when people scroll on their mobile phone. Please let me know what your experience is with changing the title after first publication, what you think of the title change and my thumbnail.