Easy Video Editing for Teachers: Making Video Stress-free

If video lectures are something that you need to add to your class curriculum but you don’t have time (or the budget) for video editing software with a lot of bells and whistles you’ll never use, this article is for you.

As a busy teacher, you’re already doing it all. Adding video lessons might feel like the last straw, but it doesn’t need to be! Here are five useful video editing apps: Spring, KineMaster, CapCut, Adobe Premiere Rush, and InShot. You can download them from Apple’s App Store or Google Play right now; no further reading required.

Still here? Awesome! We’ve written up the key takeaways from each app to help you make the best choice for your needs. These five video editing apps for your phone or tablet are easy, intuitive (and, dare we say, even a little bit fun), and can help you get your videos DONE without wasting your time hunting around for that one tool you need to get them DONE.

1. Spring – The Easy to Use, Watermark-free Video Editor

Spring is a video editing app designed to help you rapidly put together videos with different class resources: images, videos, and sounds. Use the built-in voice narration tool that helps you time your speech to the video with two button taps! Spring is great for both quick class announcements and longer videos for your institution's online lecture platform.

• No watermark: Skip the hassle of budget requests and the pain of out-of-pocket purchases– Spring lets you do what you need, for free
• Easy to use, even for beginners: Spring gives you access to all the tools you could possibly need at the bottom of the screen, no prior editing experience required
• Video options are set to overkill: 4K resolution at 60 frames per second? Yes, you can
• Automatic captioning: Add captions to any video with the tap of a button and kiss accessibility complaints goodbye

2. KineMaster – The Best Video Editor for Lectures

KineMaster provides the features you need to create professional lecture videos: overlay multiple video feeds, make your audio narrate over animated graphs and charts, and add captions to meet ACA or EAA requirements. KineMaster offers a lot of tools in one, easy-to-access menu, making it ideal for creating lectures that utilize a variety of source material.

• Multi-purpose editing: You can overlay text, images, audio, and video clips in multiple layers to provide a rich multimedia experience for your students.
• Really powerful, really easy: KineMaster packs in a lot, including AI tools like auto captioning and background noise removal, but it’s not overwhelming and your edits can scale with your editing needs
• Audio perfection: From royalty-free music and sound effects to amazing tools for mixing, like L- and J-cuts, KineMaster makes your video sound as good as it looks
• Keyframe animation: Motion graphics can make complex ideas easy to grasp and KineMaster’s built-in animation tools are some of the best available
• Cloud backups: Save your video project to the cloud for peace of mind and quick access for quick transfer to whichever device you have logged in
• Power up your videos with Assets: KineMaster has a gigantic library of graphics, fonts, transitions and effects, backgrounds, and more to make your video amazing

3. CapCut – The Popular Editing App for TikTok

CapCut is a free app suitable for teachers who need simple video editing.

• AI video editing: CapCut has AI editing tools for everything from basic cuts to subtitles
• Lots of templates: Dynamic, exciting templates are available for quickly editing fun, entertaining videos your students will love
• Free and Pro stickers and effects: There are lots of fun resources for you, regardless if you’re using CapCut for free or are a paying subscriber, to add some excitement to your videos

4. Adobe Premiere Rush – Professional Editing on Your Phone

Adobe Premiere Rush distills Adobe Premiere Pro’s powerful editing features into an app that works on your mobile device with a clean, easy-to-use interface.

• Cross-platform support: Sync projects so that you can switch devices and pick up right where you left off
• Professional-grade color controls: Give your various images, charts, and graphs a cohesive feel with excellent color correction tools
• Audio editing tools built in: Automatic volume adjustment and noise reduction features are powerful solutions to keeping background distractions in your audio from distracting your students, too

5. InShot – Powerful Mobile Video Editor

InShot is great for on-the-go video editing. If your day is mostly spent rushing around, finding the time to edit a video might seem pointless, but InShot makes it work.

• Easily add text overlays and stickers: Need some text descriptions on your video? Want to highlight something? InShot’s text and stickers save the day
• Video orientation and quick trimming: Landscape for the web, vertical for TikTok, square for Instagram… InShot takes the pain out of creating different variations on the same video
• Narrate over music: You can add background music then record over it and balance the volume with a couple of taps

Get the Editor that Does What You Need, Now:

No matter which video editing app you choose, making a video that enables your students to receive and recall what you’re teaching is an incredibly rewarding project. The simplicity, ease of use, and innovative ways these apps can be used doesn’t have to stay in your back pocket: assigning remote learning projects to create video demonstrating learning activity can be just as helpful to your lessons as making them yourself.

You can find all of these apps, including Spring and KineMaster, on Apple’s App Store or Google Play and start creating today!