Filmora sits in an awkward and useful place between the free mobile editors and professional software, and its tutorial library is better than the product's reputation suggests. Around sixty video tutorials organised into roughly ten tracks, running from getting started through basic video and audio editing into colour, animation, transitions and then advanced work including masking, chroma key and motion tracking. That is genuine progression, which is exactly what most vendor tutorial libraries lack, and somebody who works through it in order will come out able to edit rather than able to operate. The advanced material deserves credit for not stopping where these libraries usually stop.
Masking and chroma key are where consumer editors either grow up or give up, and covering them properly rather than gesturing at them is the difference between a tutorial set and a marketing asset. There is a written user guide alongside the videos, which suits people who would rather read than watch, and the whole thing is free. Filmora 15 shipped in late 2025 with a heavy AI emphasis, including video generation through Veo 3.1, improved upscaling, frame interpolation, vocal removal and eye gaze correction, and the tutorial library has grown an AI section to match. That section is where the quality drops.
The AI tools are documented as things to click rather than taught as technique, and with this many of them arriving at once a user genuinely needs help knowing which are useful and which are novelties. Eye gaze correction is a nice trick that will ruin a shot if overused. AI frame interpolation is excellent for some footage and produces artefacts on other footage, and knowing which is which is exactly the sort of judgement a tutorial should build. Instead you get a demonstration that the feature exists.
The licensing deserves a warning because it catches people out. Filmora sells both an annual licence at around fifty dollars and a perpetual licence at roughly eighty, and the perpetual covers only the current major version. Since Wondershare ships a new major version roughly annually and markets upgrades aggressively, a perpetual buyer discovers within a year or so that perpetual meant something narrower than they assumed. Prices also swing heavily with near constant promotions, which makes it hard to know what the thing actually costs.
None of this is explained in the learning material, and the upgrade marketing does bleed into the tutorials in a way that is mildly wearing. Three point two. Genuinely well structured teaching with real progression and proper advanced coverage, marked down for treating a large new AI toolset as a feature list rather than a craft, and for licensing that is more confusing than it needs to be.