Tools for audio and video editing

One of the main criteria in selecting and recommending tools for audio and video editing was free availability for educators.

  • Audacity is a most popular open-source audio recording and editing software. It provides with huge variety of audio processing features and is quite easy to use as main functions are very easy and straight forward.
  • Photos app integrated into Windows 10 and 11 are hiding simple and quite easy to use video editor. It allows to compose video from several episodes, have easy splitting and trimming features. Editing is limited to one track mixing of photos and videos by adding audio or background music, overlay text and some 3D objects from library.
  • iMovie is freely available for Mac users only. It has good editing capabilities and is not so difficult to learn. 
  • Davinci Resolve from Blackmagic is a powerful and full featured video editing software package. Free version is enough even for professional video editing but be ready to spend some time for learning how to use it by watching some video tutorials. 
  • YouTube is a repository but has quite simple and surprisingly convenient online video editor. It allows very precise trimming and deleting unnecessary parts of the video. There is also unique feature of easy blurring parts of the video even by recognising and tracking a moving object. It takes some time for edited videos to get processed but when processing is done, you can download edited version to your computer and can reuse it in other projects.
  • Vimeo quite recently has also revealed video editing capabilities. It has features of cutting, trimming and commenting in the cloud for uploaded videos. 
  • Loom is hardly can be considered as a universal video editor but it has one unique feature that resulted in adding it to this list - Loom has very fast and non-destructive trimming and cutting of unnecessary parts of the video straight inside Loom Cloud storage.