Youtube woes

I have been trying to do a video on Youtube this week with little success.  i downloaded Videopad and spent a long time entering clips and music only to discover that I could not export the finished video without buying the program.  i was sure that this program was free so went back to Google and questioned whether or not it was actually free.  I was directed to a "free" version which I also downloaded and it actually worked.  Success!  i then thought I would try a video consisting of pictures rather than videos and spent another couple of hours uploading photographs to the program only to discover that once again I could not export the movie!  I gave up using Videopad.
I then used Movie maker to do another four videos using pictures rather than video but then had problems uploading to youtube.  After uploading all the videos I went to my channel to discover that only two of them existed.  I uploaded the remaining ones again and that seemed to work but the next day three of the videos had disappeared.  I think I must have uploaded some of these videos at least three times but I don't know where they go! 
Here is the first one I produced.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=umZ0Wo8-j0M

i am finding youtune very difficult!