You absolutely positively shouldn't attempt to do anything like video editing or anything else similar on a smartphone

Do a search for PC software to edit mov files and you'll find there are plenty of choices.

I'm not enough of a Windows user to know if Windows Movie Maker is any good or not.

Although Windows no longer comes with Movie Maker, it can still be installed.

If you go to the Youtube page, the download URL is listed in the video description. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq9oMPCBpxw)

https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/windows_live.html

If I thought Movie Maker would be useful, I'd watch the video and follow the instructions.

I posted similarly here showing how to install "Photo Gallery" in Win10.

I'm afraid the most editing I do in Linux, I do in Avidemux where I mainly just concatenate the videos together, delete segments, lighten or darken, etc. Really basic lazy editing. :)

I actually have an old operating system (Windows 7) with MS Moviemaker on it. Will give it a try. I am asking for suggestions because there are so many choices and I have no idea if any of them are any good. Most of my friends who do movies shoot them on their phones and edit in iMovie but that's not going to work for me.

I'm sure all the ones to be found on the legit review/download sites "work", it may be a matter of how easy or hard they are to use.

Keep your originals unaltered (save edits using different names from the originals) and try a few until you find one you like.

Or, if it's important to you, spend a few bucks and get a well regarded commercial program.

Why is a phone not good? I do all mine on a samsung note 10 plus in the field so I don't have to be tied down to a computer then directly upload to YouTube. I shoot video on a canon EOS 80D. When done I hold my phone next to the camera and in seconds video is transferred then I edit and upload to youtube. A few vloggers I know do it this way too so they are not tied down to a computer. Mary

People who work in creative endeavors of all kinds not only use mostly PCs but use PCs with very large screens. Mostly Macs, historically, but not exclusively. Do you think you've discovered something new and overlooked in suggesting using a small smartphone and its relatively tiny screen? For serious editing, including still photos, you can't do on a small screen what you can do on a large one and smartphone software is very limited compared to what can be done in the obviously larger format of a PC's innards and processing speed.

The OP said in the second sentence she doesn't want to use her phone. I think that's a good decision for more reasons than the small screen size but to each, their own choice.

I am not in the industry so works for people like us when we vlog. My nephew has to edit a lot for his job and when he can't be on the Mac uses the IPAD OR Iphone but has the larger IPhone screen.. Thats the beauty of portable devices. My phone screen is not tiny and my tablet screen is 10 inches. Could never handle a tiny phone screen so would never buy one. I just like doing stuff in the field so to speak while on vacation and our and about. Mary

I'm not saying that my comments are always (and maybe not ever) useful but you seem to have a curious tendency of consistently dismissing ideas or suggestions that differ from what and how you do things.

How do you learn new things or move on from past practices when there are better choices?

I used a computer for years to edit videos back when I got my first digital point and shoot. Have moved on to mobile devices now to be more free. You seem to be the one that doesn't want to learn new ways videos can be edited instead of being stuck at home on front of a computer.

Oh my, you're so very wrong. What I mentioned was an approach more widely used and considered to be better, not necessarily new. New things aren't necessarily better but with a closed mind and closed eyes you'll see neither.

I still remember being shocked about your expressed preference for Microsoft's Internet Explorer, exclaiming how neither you nor anyone you knew used anything else and never had problems with it. You said that apparently not knowing that quite a while earlier, Microsoft had publicly announced it couldn't fix the known problems in Internet Explorer, that it was broken beyond repair. And that they would be releasing a new browser with third party code and a customized UI. When I mentioned it was a program widely viewed as being flawed and about to be abandoned and replaced by something completely new, you wouldn't hear of it.

This exchange may be another example of the same attitude. Keep your mind and eyes open.

Pft. I just don't like working with a tiny space with my hands. Also with my eyes. It's ergonomics, not inability to use or learn new devices or software. I wouldn't have asked for a software recommendation if that was the case. Sadly it seems like Macs dominate the creative "vlogosphere."

Yes, of course. Ease of use, visibility and clarity, capabilities of the software, all are important factors favoring the use of PCs.

There are many WIndows programs available to do what you want, as I mentioned before. Look around, you'll find many choices. Some are free.

I'm fiddling with Windows MovieMaker, it is already installed on my laptop. We'll see how it goes.

Finding this a couple of years later. Still struggling to learn to make good videos without a camera-person. Also not sure why I was pegged by EF as an MS Internet Explorer devotee. I have almost never used it.

VSDC (Video Soft Dev . com) Video Editor Pro and Video Editor Free may be worth a look, x64 and x32 versions for PC.

I had a similar issue with my DSLR. What worked for me was using a free video conversion tool. These tools can easily convert .MOV files to more compatible formats like .MP4, which work well with most editing software and players on Windows.