Easy Life Editor

• Cutting takes nothing away. Every cut only decides where one piece ends and the next begins, so cutting in the wrong place costs you nothing — you cut again. Your recording is never written to, moved or deleted, whatever you do in here.
• What you watch is the finished video. Press Play and the picture jumps from the end of one piece to the start of the next, exactly as the saved file will, so there is no making the file and watching it back to find out whether a join works.
• Take the middle out in three presses. Cut at each end of the part you do not want, pick the piece in the middle, delete it. Put the pieces that are left in any order you like.
• Rows of sound under the picture. Narration on one row, music on another, effects on a third, each with its own volume and its own off switch — and the recording's own sound is a row just like them, so a noisy room can simply be turned off.
• Music that gets out of your way. Tick one box and the music turns itself down by about eleven decibels whenever you are speaking, and comes back up when you stop. That one thing is most of what makes a tutorial sound finished rather than homemade.
• It saves the file YouTube asks for. An .mp4 holding H.264 picture and AAC sound at 48,000 hertz, with its index at the front, so it goes straight up without being converted into anything else first. Nothing is ever written over.
• Nothing you edit leaves your computer. All of the work happens on this machine. Your recordings and your finished videos are never sent anywhere.

There is a step by step tutorial that walks the whole program with one short recording, from opening it to having a finished video.

Easy Life Editor is for Windows at the moment. There is no version for a phone, a Mac or Linux yet. It cuts, reorders and mixes sound — there are no titles, no zoom and no transitions, so a join between two pieces is a hard cut. It does not record anything either; that is Easy Life Recorder, which makes the files this one edits.