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you're not bothering me at all lol, i love being able to help, especially about editing and art since they are things i'm passionate about!!

about the keyframes (since i think you have videopad installed now), first drag in an image, gif, video, or whatever you'd like into the timeline. right click it and press effects. a good example is motion, since i use it a lot. you should see a box with the exact coordinates, rotation settings, etc. the most important thing though is that you ensure that in the top right hand corner you hover over that small graphic that looks like a weird triangle with an arrow; that's the way to manually set keyframes. if you hover over it, it will say "show or hide the effect animation editor". make sure you press it so it shows. then to the right of the initial box you should see another box appear with seconds on the bottom and grids across it. i tend to extend it horizontally a bit to get the most room. then, with this box, you have to ability to set keyframes by pressing the add button in the top left corner. it will add a keyframe wherever your red line cursor thing (idk what it's called lol) is on the grid. when making keyframes, in order to make something move for example, at each new keyframe you can drag around the image/gif/video in the preview to essentially change its end location when it reaches that keyframe.

for the ones i use with subtitles/captions i use the text feature (press the T [add text]) at the top and then select simple text overlay. then once you press it, it should automatically open a text editor. there you can change the preview from "title text" to what you'd like, and then at the top of this box there is an option for outline. press the checkmark, select the color, and then change the slider to determine how much of a border you'd like. :)

wait how do u keyframe text?

same concept as before; i often use the motion effect and then open the menu from there. text created in videopad behaves the same as a still image, meaning you can use all the visual effects on those files, too. if you're looking to create captions (like tommyinnit, per say) you can easily create your own transition using the motion effect and then save that preset by pressing the floppy disk in the effect window, that way all the text can come onto the screen with a small bounce or whatever you're looking for. :)