"You are working instead with projects... and it's confusing" That's the issue !
"Easy to use" is not synonymous with timeline, project, workspace, layers... especially for casuals users.
Most video editing tools are made by geeks for geeks.
That's why we made 011.video web editor.
It's simpler to user that "Windows Movie Maker" and it's Cross-platform compatible.
- "I thought it might be semi-automatic..." :
011.video is made modestly with HI (Human Intelligence) not AI. We have all used Youtube automatic translation to know how ineffective is it. By the way 011.video support a "Speech to sticker" feature on chromium browser (except on Edge). It's fun to add video/GIF/images on the fly, but it's not 100% effective as it depends on Google speech recognition system, your internet connection, your mic, your device...
- "...option to generate a separate WebVTT subtitle file..." :
Each SRT files or WebVTT files is linked to a video. As i said today AI automatic speech to text translation is far from effective. So if you want a clean webTTT file you have to make it manually phrase by phrase.
- "got the width of a smartphone, line are wrapped..." :
011.video smartphone / android app is not up to date. i will update it later this month after getting some feedback from the Desktop version online.
Free and without watermark - Progressive web app - Browsers supported : Firefox, Chrome, Edge - Android version available - Features : Real time drawing over video, easy subtitles, speech to stickers, external flow capture...
More : https://011.video
GIFs sucks. Most popular GIFs are video chunks played in loop. So reverse the process and convert GIF to video. With web app as 011.video for instance you can reduce the file size by a factor of 10 easily, just upload GIF, resize and download WebM video. Even better, for your own website use the original video chunk, play it in loops and make it clickable with HTML 5.