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> I was also looking for a simple software to stitch together my GoPro videos but was left out with either free iMovie/Quick, which are too basic or a super-expensive Premiere.

It sounds like your real question is, why isn't anyone making free or inexpensive tools with features like Premiere, so I don't have to pay for it? That's the problem -- everybody wants nice software but nobody's willing to pay what it would actually cost to write it.

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Not really. My point was that there's a lot of space between MS Paint and Photoshop (iMovie and Premiere), etc, and there seem to be enough people, willing to pay half price for the half of features. I'm not saying I want it for free, all I'm saying is that $500/year (creative suite price) is way too much for occasional picture/video editing.

Frustratingly that mythical video editing app you’re looking for was actually a previous version of iMovie. Apple crippled iMovie with the release of iMovie 08, which removed a bunch of previous features and workflows in an effort to make it easier to post videos to YouTube. Apple made it easier to create simple videos, but incredibly difficult to make anything slightly more complicated. Editing clips synced to music became a frustrating game of Tower of Hanoi.

I thought there would be hope with switching to FCP, but then they did the same thing in 2011 with FCP X.

Because you can do that with a bit of reading and gstreamer. And because designing and building a solution for every graphic/video designer out there is expensive. Adobe and Autodesk got the right idea, dont complain too much if people are pirating your shit, wait until they get used to your stuff, then give them a cheap way to be legal. I use Autodesk Inventor every so often, but 30 quid/month is not something that I feel in my pocket and they get a revenue stream out of that. Obviously, they kind of built the entire thing on charging lots in the past, but now, now I can afford that as a hobist.

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