I have tried a lot of video editing software over the years, but so many of them are just annoying and frustrating to use, and also take forever to save the video to the file you want.
Camtasia however is simple to use, and does not take long at all to save your exported video. If you are like me and just wanted to take a simple video with your digital camera and then maybe just trim off the start and finish or maybe even cut a little bit out here and there, then camtasia is perfect for doing that.
You simply just import your video file, or record the screen where you want it to, and then drop the video into a Camtasia time-line, highlight the parts you want to edit and simply cut them out. You can also use jpegs, gifs and other pics, and the gifs.
The effects are not much tho, there is a zoom in, picture in picture layer, and transition effects between scenes, but not much else effect wise.
It would be nice to see some more filters and effects in future to change colors, tint, black and white etc... but for now, this is the #1 program I recommend for a simple little editer, to add a quick movie to youtube, without having to have one of those confusing programs that are slow and take up most of your computers resources that render forever like Premiere.
This program lets you easily save in various formats, mpeg, avi, rm, swf, mov, flv, camv and even an animated gif file! It's a simple program, for simple editing.