> I'm currently looking at BlackMagic's DaVinci Resolve, which has a quite well featured video and audio editing package for free. But 'all' the free version do

> I'm currently looking at BlackMagic's DaVinci Resolve, which has a quite well featured video and audio editing package for free. But 'all' the free version does is edit video clips. You have to pay for additional functionality. Premiere Elements, in contrast, has lots of useful things like creating/handling non-video assets such as text for titles and credits, loads of (sometimes cheesy) clip transitions, etc etc. The free version lets you create titles, animations, transitions and you get access to their after effects comparable tool for fancy animations as well as color grading and audio / video editing. It's a very reasonable free offering. I use it all the time to edit podcasts. I want to use it for editing video too but I have issues with it adding artifacts to the rendered videos, I think it's because it doesn't like my 6 year old GTX 750ti.