I downloaded blender in hopes of using it for simple video editing, and while it appears to have all the tools I want, trying to preview the video is simply not working well enough. The preview is struggling to get anywhere past around 1.5 fps. When I checked in task manager to try and find the bottleneck, nothing showed higher than 50% usage...
Unusable preview framerates is something i'm quite accustomed to with my computer, but i was hoping there might be a way to manage a smooth playthrough of something close enough to video that i can time cuts and transistions.