Get Started In Video Editing In 22 Minutes

What You Need To Know For Video Editing

Tools

The editor I pick is Shotcut.
There are only 2 reasons for that - ease of use and free!

The version I pick is the 64-bit Windows portable. (Download here).
You might choose the one that fits your own setting.

Setup (00:53 - 01:56 of video)

To use the program, simply extract the downloads to your destination drive.
Get into the Shotcut folder and double click the "Shotcut" exe file.

When you get into Shotcut, you will see a blank interface.
The first thing to do is adding a timeline (see  02:54 - 03:43 of video)

Basic Principles

I am talking about the fancy effects here.
Simply learn the hotkey to
1) move along the playhead (cursor of timeline) (forward, pause, rewind)
2) cut (called "split" in Shotcut) and ripple delete (delete part of the clip and snap the following one to the previous clip)
3) transition (from one clip to another)
4) change clip speed (make the video faster or slower, applicable to audio as well)
and do
5) picture in picture (PIP, that means, put an image/video on top of another video track)

The details are shown in the YouTube video below.

Conclusion

If you used other editor before, you might notice the lack of keyframming feature in Shotcut.
It's the major disadvantage of this little giant.
But still, I like the hotkey and ability to add effects (filters) with simple CSS and HTML.
Shotcut might not be suitable for big projects though.

Anyhow, It's a good starting point to learn video editing.

Forza! 

Disclaimer:  All features are applicable to my setup which might not function the same in your cases.  Use at your own risk.