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It was a Tuesday afternoon, and I was hunched over my laptop, fingers trembling with frustration as I tried to piece together a product demonstration video for my small online boutique. The raw footage stared back at me—a chaotic mess of shaky camera work, inconsistent lighting, and audio that sounded like it was recorded in a wind tunnel. I had spent hours downloading various editing apps, each one promising simplicity but delivering a labyrinth of confusing menus and technical jargon that left

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