Hi
The basics can be learned in quite a short time. One can produce a simple slide show or video consisting of Title-Clips/Images separated with transitions - End title in virtually a few minutes. A more complex project involving multiple tracks multiple effects editing of clips and animations will take longer to master. The software is quite intuitive and the forum members try to answer questions give advice and often explain "How to"
Download the free version and give it a try. Nothing is lost and if you like it you can easily upgrade the latest version.
https://www.nchsoftware.com/videopad/index.html
If you receive the expiry message and If you kept the setup.exe file you should be able to delete VP via the control panel and then reload it once more, without needing to download everything again.
Nat