It's easy to use for beginners as well as advanced users alike! The best part of shot cut its that it has some really cool features like color correction or audio editing which other editors don't have yet! I would suggest more tutorials if you are looking to learn this software because there isn't many videos online about how to edit with shot cuts so they tend to be confusing at first but once u find out what your doing you get used to everything quickly! There aren't any downsides i can think off just make sure when learning not to overload yourself too much by trying to do way too much in one feature haha. If anyone wants a great piece of media production equipment then definitely check them all out and see what works for yah! You will need good quality microphones depending on whether or no sound effects you want to add into your projects etc. It helps me greatly being able to create my own music.