I bought both video editing and image editing programs for the first time

Hello my Friend.
The new Year is not really started and you have an really great intention for it.
Have Fun and many,many great Projects with your new Software.

Arrr, I'd love to get to this point meself but it's a sailor's life for me.

Trouble is I have never particularly found the paid stuff that much better, if at all. I have occasionally been lumped with it if working as part of a bigger group and other than ease of handoff it is never something I feel the need to go back to or "wow I need a copy of this for my everyday stuff/personal stuff".

I could see there being certain workflows being better at the time (even if redoing things later would be far harder) and I will note I don't do any modern audio track mastering or composing, and try to do limited amount of "after effects" style work or object tracking (most of which still usually means frame by frame painting, tracking adjustment or mask adjustment). Likewise live is never something I have cared for either.

Still if it works for you then go for it.

Yar-har fiddle dee dee. No skin off my back if you've no money. Just support the devs when you've got the green. You are a pirate!

Assuming it is not a "I need to learn it for ?" scenario I would say skip the pirate thing and look up a copy of some of Linux based video editors (kdenlive does timeline, some filters/colour correction and greenscreen/keying) if my beloved Avisynth is something you can't get along with; if we go nonlinear some people absolutely can not work with anything other that timeline, and while timeline has its perks I would say the clip based thing avisynth does makes quick accurate changes of the type most people do during the final shuffles and clip trimmings a thousand times easier, and its internal maths stuff coupled with the animate and applyrange commands allows for some nice animations, overlays and whatever else you might want, even more so if you spin it up into a function you can reuse as much as you like.
Flank it with audacity (might be tricky for podcasts if you need a lot of editing but most video work does wonderfully if you edit audio last/when you have a clip timing lock), GIMP, inkscape for audio, bitmap and vector image work respectively, and some kind of frame level fiddler (I always liked virtualdub but that was more because I was used to it from capturing, do note you can tell avisynth to overlay frame numbers and other choice things with the info() command -- http://avisynth.nl/index.php/Info ) along with whatever encoder you like (megui always did for me, bonus being most encoders are free and better quality than most of the commercial offerings). If you need desktop capture then you are probably using a free program anyway, and for 3d modelling then that changes matters but most probably don't play there.
Indeed beyond good audio and good picture (obtained by getting at least reasonable devices there and knowing how to use them/their limits) if I were to invest I would probably sooner take some kind of vision mixer/source selector if you are doing some kind of talking head, interview or reading articles type content than spring for paid software to do it.

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Nice! I would have loved to get Adobe but I don't support software subscriptions. Also didn't want to deal with choosing between outdated versions.

That's a promise I've made to myself too.
But you know... the most honest and common opinion is:

Why spend money on something you can get for free?
No really.

Not judging, but if I were you I could've saved that money for later.

Is like... why should I buy more paper sheets, copic markers and ink when I can get everything for free in Autodesk Sketchbook?
Besides! No more paper wasting!

Because if I don't buy it the developers can't eat, plus there will be less developers and shittier products.

@IncredulousP
Not always. Not because you pay for it it means that it'll be good.
Would you pay to get your ass kicked? Well... better be the best kick ever, otherwise you'll be disappointed.
Take a look at Adobe and what they've been doing in the past... what... 5 years?

You can cancel your subscription to Adobe Products after two years have been passed.

Actually you can support better software, that's that's open and free.
Like... Gimp, Openshot, LibreOffice, OBSStudio, Inkscape and many more.

I have used all of them and I've kept Libreoffice and Gimp because I don't do videos.

But If I could change those free and open options for a better commercial option I would without thinking it twice. They're all free and they're all good.

Still not judging, just saying that there are free options out there.

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Good luck. I hope you can get good use out of it at least once.

I have never been able to reproduce results with paid music software as good as during my prime when everything was ripped off and hodgepodged together.

davinci resolve is great and it has a free personal license.

Wow do I feel old. The first image editing software I used was MacPaint in 1985. I then bought Deluxe Paint for the Amiga in 1986, and Aldus PhotoStyler for Windows in 1991, Adobe PhotoShop 3 in around 1995. And that year was the year I (pirated) my first video editing software. Never had more fun with such software as I did with Deluxe Paint. Perhaps because I was a teenager.

Have fun because times goes by much faster each year after 21!