I know this is hard to start in. There isn't any way around that though.
Because all of the pro level apps have very steep learning curves. They are complex and powerful pieces of software, with many different ways to do any one thing. And nothing is normally automated as most professionals want to control the details of how things work.
If pros want something automated, they want control of that automation, so they want to be able to set that up also.
Look through some of the "how do I do this?" threads on here. If you have five of us responding, there will be at least four ways to do "that thing" presented ... if not seven or eight.
The above suggestions, for LinkedInLearning and such, are pretty good. Anything from the YouTube channels of VideoRevealed (Colin is knowledgeable and safely awesome) and, The Premiere Pro, by Paul Murphy are good, solid, and practical ways to do things.
But there are so freaking many things you can do, so many different ways to do anything, it is unavoidably complex and confusing to start with.
BlackMagic does provide an amazing manual for Resolve. That's an app that started as one of the most capable pro colorist's tools, and has added a decent amount of editing and sound and fx stuff ... still not nearly as capable as an editing app as Premiere, but not too bad.
However ... that manual is over 4,000 very, very dense pages of text. It is neither cross referenced nor has an index. And as all these apps, they use their own names for way too many things ... "masks" are instead called "power windows" ... and unless you already know what they call something, you cannot find it without reading every page of the flipping massive manual.
You have to read page after page, and when you finally see a description of what you want to learn about, well ... you finally found what you're looking for.
That's just how it is. So using a resource like LInkedInLearning, or FMC' training stuff, both paid services, or working with someone who already has experience, is the better way to quicker ability to simply get something done.
We fellow users will be happy to help, as always, if you have questions. But we cannot make something so complex and capable of doing so many things to be simple and easy to use to begin with.
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