Why is Adobe Express SO HARd to edit with?

[Kirstie0101]

I have been a professional Adobe Premiere editor for 15 years. I can use different editing software with ease, but Adobe Express video editing is the most unintuitive, unpredictable, and frustrating editing software I have ever experienced. I have been asked to create a video tutorial for an organisation who have just purchased a team license. They only want to be able to clip together simple interviews, add some b roll, some text overlays and music - to create very short social media clips. I thought that this would be an easy to create tutorial but every time I try to record one, I find myself unable to complete it because it is SO CONFUSING! The strange way you have to add b roll, which disappears and becomes a dot on the line above, and that's if you can avoid it becoming a scene by accident, and then you don't know what's happened and have to start all over again. Also, it doesn't seem to allow you to pull some b roll across an edit cut on the layer below, which is precisely waht you need it to do. So I'm having to export the interview and reimport it as one clip, just so I can do this. The trim sliders are very hard to get accurate sound edits. All in all I am saying to the client that this is not a good choice of edit software for their team. Where can I find an up to date tutorial that will solve these issues? They will be using the desktop version.

[chaimaa.7]

Hello @Kirstie0101. Thank you for your detailed feedback, we truly appreciate the time you took to share your experience. We understand how frustrating it can be when the workflow doesn’t match the editing flexibility you're used to. Adobe Express follows a simplified, scene-based approach where all video and audio clips live on a single main timeline, and additional elements like text, icons, or images are added as layers within individual scenes. For b-roll, a helpful workaround is to create short clips and insert them between interview segments rather than layering them on top. While this is different from traditional editing software, it can still support streamlined social content creation. To help you navigate this more easily, we recommend these resources: https://adobe.ly/4ffytG5, https://adobe.ly/4odsHbV, and this quick YouTube tutorial https://adobe.ly/4ogN0Ft;

To help us better understand the specific difficulties you're facing and to pass your feedback directly to our product team. We’d really appreciate it if you could share a short screen recording showing the parts of the workflow that feel confusing or limiting.

Thank you again for your time and your patience,

Chaimaa