Would activate but was unactivated when the app was closed -> restarted -- the last lines in AceThinker Video Editor.exe.log say: "IsExpired=True, IsActivated=False, IsActivatedByActivateKey=False"
This is a fairly basic video editor with lots of files in 3 folders, with it seems a bit of duplication [sames files in more than one place]... there's the program's folder, ProgramData\ AceThinker, Users\ [UserName]\ AppData\ Roaming\ AceThinker, plus an empty folder in My Documents. AceThinker Video Editor relies on ffmpeg as expected, but also uses Avisynth, which I didn't expect. IMHO that's not as much a question of quality as it is of speed -- Avisynth was more a niche app used years ago to help make up for the fact there were very few good consumer grade video editing tools. AFAIK most have moved on to the newer Vapoursynth when similar operations are required. AceThinker Video Editor also uses some free plugins from frei0r. The recorded stats in my Win7 32-bit VM:
The installation performed the following activity:
2781 files added
56 files deleted
18 files updated
332 registry entries added
0 registry entries deleted
18 registry entries updated
wikipedia[.]org/wiki/AviSynth
vapoursynth[.]com/
video.stackexchange[.]com/questions/28548/avisynth-vs-avisynth-vs-vapoursynth-which-one-should-i-choose
dyne[.]org/software/frei0r/