My Video and Photo Editing Adventure

So, I record video offline of my place for personal security and transfer those recordings off my devices and onto my offline laptop where I used the Windows 10 Photo & Video Editor that came installed with the computer to check and make sure nothing was out of the ordinary. The pre-installed Editor was always buggy since the start and my heavy editing often caused it to freeze or crash because it can't handle too many tasks at a time. Eventually the bugs started piling up and I couldn't delete albums and video projects, so I had to go into File Explorer to remove them. Then one day after returning to my Restore Point the Editor simply wouldn't open and in the Start Menu the icons are greyed out and unclickable. I figured this would eventually happen since the crashing became more frequent. It probably corrupted from being pushed too hard daily for months.

So I decided that I would purchase HD Movie Maker - PRO https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/hd...ot:overviewtab and paint.NET https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/pa...ot:overviewtab as replacement apps that are probably more reliable and refined than the Windows 10 standard software. But it will be some time before I can get this software in an offline format to install the traditional way.

In the meantime I went to find some freeware that was suitable to use for a short time while I am without a proper editor. First was Windows Live Essentials 2012 (wlsetup-all.exe). This popular program no longer has support but can work on Windows 10. Installation requires to have .NET Framework 3.5, so I found that exe and installed it. Although installed, Essentials 2012 exe doesn't see it and keeps asking for it. So, I moved on and found inPixio Photo Studio free version, this one requires Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2019 redistributable to run. I found two different versions but no matter what one is installed inPixio cant see them and keeps asking. Also needed was VC Redist x64. Once again I installed it and the inPixio exe doesnt see its there. So, I moved on to VideoPad editor, finding two versions (vpsetup.exe & vppsetup.exe) and neither of these will open at all.

Now I found Clipify photo editor freeware version and downloaded a 450MB file of Exposure 30 day free trial. Going to try installing them now. I will tell you all how that goes.

Samuria said:

Inpixo you download the desktop version of .net and it works sometimes you have to run as admin

Now that I reinstalled Windows 10 with the USB ISO my photo editor is back, but its still buggy like the H1 version. There is no Video Editor on the re-install so I'm getting this inPixio. I want Paint.NET but you cant download the zip and transfer it to a USB drive, To get something in the Microsoft Store you must be connected to the internet on the device you want it on. With inPixio I can download it onto my phone and USB it to my laptop.

Bree said:

I have no idea what it was you found and installed, but if you want .NET Framework 3.5 it's already built in to Windows 10 (and 11). Just turn it on in Windows Features.



Though actually, it doesn't seem to need it....

I am going to give this a look, thanks.

Found GoPro video editor for Windows. Out of service but available on the GoPro official site.

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I successfully got Windows Live Essentials 2012 to install, so I'm happy about that. Had to drop the .NET selections and it works fine. Now, to figure out splicing videos with this.

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Excellent program, wonder why they decided to toss it on Windows 10.