When it comes to video editing, I recommend a software called VSDC Free Video Editor. It is available free of charge or as a pro version for a very small annual fee.

Unlike the big competitors, VSDC lacks a few of the most complex features. However, they keep adding more and more without ever raising the annual license fee - and I, for one, prefer to support small businesses rather than large ones.

The basics can actually be learned very quickly with VSDC. And as time goes on, you can then gradually click your way through the various buttons you find here and there to, for example, make transition gradients much smoother, remove background colors more precisely, add specific video effects, and much more.

The developers also run their own YouTube channel, where they mainly make tutorials on how to achieve certain effects within VSDC. In addition you can get a good feel for what you can actually do with VSDC from watching these tutorial videos, in which they also use a lot of the software's potential.

Considering all that, I think VSDC is intuitively very easy to use and I can definitely recommend it.