It’s not bad, but IMHO it doesn’t make the cut, [not yet] going against NLEs [Non-Linear Editors] that have been in development for years, sometimes decades. It is quite a few steps above the minimal editing allowed by some of the converters that have been on GOTD, and there’s no reason not to play around with it a bit, but like the minimal video editing that comes with Win10, you’ll want to move on to do anything near serious, IMO anyway.
When you register the web site gives you a link to download the setup app, which is a downloader itself, or you can use the setup.exe that you downloaded from GOTD. The downloaded file(s) is not saved once the install is complete. Installation is low impact as far as Windows is concerned, with files in the program’s folder, Users\ [UserName]\ AppData\ Local, ProgramData, and folders in My documents & Public Documents. While I recorded 400 new registry entries in a Win7 32-bit VM, the vast majority of those was just cache-related – it mainly adds the file type association for Filme projects and uninstall entries.
Filme itself is based on ffmpeg, which is OK, but there are faster encoders for AVC/H.264 & H.265, while ffmpeg’s mpg2 encoder doesn’t measure up to encoders from companies like MainConcept [IMO]. It also uses QT programming, which is OK, while the program’s window is only somewhat resizable.
Videohelp[.]com has 5 lists of video editors, e.g. Advanced, Basic etc., with links, many with rankings & short reviews -- videohelp[.]com/software – but unfortunately while the lists are fairly complete, Nero Platinum isn’t listed there… while not the most straightforward to use, it has some pretty advanced encoding capabilities. FXhome [fxhome[.]com] may be the easiest to get a running start video editing, while DaVinci Resolve [free & paid] is one of the most complete NLEs, and hardest to learn.