You don’t need to spend a lot to become a video editor

If you own a decent smartphone or camera, you’ll likely have endless footage. How hard can it be to edit it all together? Not very. — dpa

Video editing is well within the reach of anyone with a modern computer, but sometimes the large selection of editing programs and their complexity can be off-putting for beginners.

”Anyone who, as a complete layperson, buys a professional editing program for several hundred euros can quickly get frustrated, ” says Rainer Schuldt, who tests software for tech magazine Computer Bild.