Ask HN: A Decent Video Editing solution for a small Kickstarter project?

I'm helping a friend of mine with a small Kickstarter project. I've never really needed to cut together any serious videos, but I have resorted to something ridiculous like Windows Movie Maker when the need has come up, just to have an easy solution.

The problem is that I feel like I'm stuck between two worlds. On one hand, there are a ton of souped up, crazy video editing solutions that are overkill for me and would take too long to figure out how to do simple things. For example, was just looking into doing a simple text overlay in Blender/VirtualDub, and spent hours fiddling with things.

On the other side of the spectrum, there's a lot of really trashy options that range from pretty embarrassing to totally inappropriate for this project.

I feel like there's something I'm missing. I searched for ages and just couldn't find something the felt like the right fit. The closest was an app called PhotoFilmStrip, but that would only handle the pan and zoom, and I'd want some other (tasteful!) text, overlays, transitions, etc.

I don't have a Mac so no Mac apps, but anything else (Linux, etc.) is fair game. I feel like I often can find real gems on here that I can't find by searching so I hope I'll get lucky here. Thanks.