the deep moans round with many voices

Today's adventures in learning how to edit videos:

I imported some of my own phone camera videos into Lightworks and have been playing around with them, in addition to watching more tutorials.

Thus far, I have figured out how to make text crawl up over the screen, which apparently is called a roll rather than a crawl? Or at least Lightworks uses "crawl" for text that marches in a single line across the screen from right to left, whereas a roll goes across the screen from bottom to top.

That is useful for video titles!

The problem is that while I can fuck around with the font, the size, the spacing, the color, and various other text effects, I can't find a way to adjust the speed of the roll/crawl, and the default is P A I N F U L L Y S L O W. *headdesk*

I think I need to make Lawyer man put his title sequences onto a USB drive and hand that to me (and/or put them on the shared office drive) so I can just muck around with those instead of trying to create something from scratch. I should probably also get Miss California's into and outro sequences. We do want to create a unified "feel" for all our company virtual tour videos, after all.

I've also managed to do something with grouping and un-grouping audio tracks, but I can't tell what's on which track and I'm not sure I can adjust their volume independently? Maybe some of the other tutorial videos will explain that.

Hey, does anyone have advice on free video editing software?

I need to learn some basic video editing quick for work, and like BLEEP am I paying money for it.

What I need to do is:

1. add a title sequence (animated clip with sound) at the start of an apartment tour video
2. maybe edit out some background noise
3. replace video of bathrooms and other tricky areas with still photos (mirrors are the devil)
4. add a closing sequence (still image, scrolling text, and sound) at the end

Lawyer Man has also been adding little text overlays to reinforce some of Mr. Geniality's spiel, but I think that's unnecessarily cluttered and would prefer to leave that info in the video notes on YouTube.

So far the programs I've found recommended are, in no particular order:

-Lightworks
-OpenShot
-Shotcut
-HitFilm Express
-VSDC Free Video Editor
-Movie Maker Online and/or Movie Maker 10
-VideoPad

Please do not recommend iMovie to me. I don't have a Mac; it will not do me any good. This is especially annoying since the videos were all shot on an iPhone and I may have to do some interesting file conversion contortions, but we work with what we're given. *sigh*