Video editors for a primary school

[itskdog]

What video editors do you use in your schools?

 

With Windows Movie Maker being long-EOL and the school moving to Windows 11, Intune, & M365 A3 a year ago, we tried using Clipchamp, but the teachers have had lots of difficulty with using it for the Year 6 ICT lessons compared with Movie Maker (from the old Windows Live Essentials bundle that we used on Windows 10) as it relies so much on OneDrive for storage and the projects aren't traditional files but exist only within the Clipchamp app.

 

Needs to still be simple and easy-to-use like Movie Maker (so that rules out Resolve, for example), and ideally free too.

[TheHyperTechie]

iMovie, staff love it! but of course this is only useable on their iPads. We do have a school "shared" macbook though, which some teachers use for heavy editing.

[Olliedawg]

If you only need super simple stuff, what about Canva?

[JazzFlute]

1 hour ago, itskdog said:

What video editors do you use in your schools?

 

With Windows Movie Maker being long-EOL and the school moving to Windows 11, Intune, & M365 A3 a year ago, we tried using Clipchamp, but the teachers have had lots of difficulty with using it for the Year 6 ICT lessons compared with Movie Maker (from the old Windows Live Essentials bundle that we used on Windows 10) as it relies so much on OneDrive for storage and the projects aren't traditional files but exist only within the Clipchamp app.

 

Needs to still be simple and easy-to-use like Movie Maker (so that rules out Resolve, for example), and ideally free too.

I was in the same boat a while ago and spent a lot of time researching and testing different options. In my opinion, CapCut is probably the best solution, although I do understand the frustrations you've mentioned.

 

It may be worth providing staff with some training, as that could help increase confidence and encourage wider adoption. CapCut is already a very popular choice among older pupils, particularly in secondary schools, so using it now would help students develop skills they are likely to encounter and continue using as they progress through their education.

[Synkrox]

Clipchamp or canva here. Canva having proper licensed music is a big bonus and cuts down the "can you download this song from youtube" requests 🤢

[itskdog]

57 minutes ago, JazzFlute said:

 

I was in the same boat a while ago and spent a lot of time researching and testing different options. In my opinion, CapCut is probably the best solution, although I do understand the frustrations you've mentioned.

 

It may be worth providing staff with some training, as that could help increase confidence and encourage wider adoption. CapCut is already a very popular choice among older pupils, particularly in secondary schools, so using it now would help students develop skills they are likely to encounter and continue using as they progress through their education.

 

Looked into CapCut - it's getting blocked on the web filter for AI, and the titles in the search results say it's AI, too. Possibly not permittable for under 13s, plus we'd need to update the school's AI policy and get that re-approved.

 

We already have Canva as our replacement for Publisher, and AI is already set to staff-only there, so I've asked the teachers to check that out first to see how it goes.