Video Production and Editing

ITMS and Math both have studios for audio recording, lightboard, green screen and the like. The ITMS one is bigger and better. The Math one is self-serve and is better for uses with experience.

Contact Peter Wood about the Math studio and waterloostudio@uwaterloo.ca about booking the ITMS studio.

A Review of Video Editing Softwares

Software Name	Blender (Recommended)	Lightworks	Wondershare Filmora	Hippo Video	Shotcut
Installation Required	Yes	Yes	Yes	No (Online)	Yes
Basic Functions	Trimming Live preview Up to 32 slots for adding videos, images, and audio	Trimming Drag and drop Color correction Automatic sync on import	Trimming, rotating, merging, splitting, cropping videos Drag and drop	Trim clips, cut, and crop videos. Annotate while recording Password protection: grant only necessary video access to students Real-time analytics: able to see video views	Trimming Append, insert, overwrite
Import	AVI, .mp4, H.264 See the comprehensive list here.	Batch Import Supported Formats: AVI, .mts, .m2ts, .m2t, .mpg, .mp4, .ts, .m2v, .asf, .vob	Video: .mpg, .mpeg., .mp4, .mov, .flv, .wmv, AVI, .mp4 Audio: .mp3, .wav See the comprehensive list here.	Not available in the free plan.	No import required: native timeline editing.
End Quality (Highest Option)	1080p	720p	1080p	720p	4k
End Product Format	AVI JPEG, AVI RAW, FFmpeg video, .mp3, .wav	.mp4	.mp4, .wmv, .avi, .mov, .f4v, .mkv, .ts, .mpg, .webm, .mp3 Also supports uploading to YouTube	.mp4 Also supports uploading to YouTube	.mpv, .mov, .mp4 and more (support for the latest audio and video formats thanks to FFmpeg)
Audio	Mixing Syncing Scrubbing	Scrubbing Keyframe	Split, adjust, mute, trim Voiceover	Supports recording audio but not importing audio files.	Audio editing at the wave/sample level is NOT available. Can combine with the free, open source, cross-platform tool Audacity.
Audio Export	No Audio, AAC, AC3, FLAC, MP2, MP3, PCM, Vorbis	N/A	N/A	N/A	Ogg Vorbis, .mp3
Encoding Speed	Presets to change between a fast encode (bigger file size) and more compression (smaller file size).	Relatively slow	Optimized through "Activate the GPU Acceleration" option.	Fast	Fast ~ Reasonable
Compatibility with different OS	Linux Windows 8.1 and 10 macOS 10.13 Intel · 11.0 Apple Silicon	Linux Windows 7, 8/8.1 and 10 macOS X 10.11 and higher	Windows 7/8/10 macOS X 10.9 or higher	Linux/Unix Windows macOS	Linux glib 2.27 and higher Windows 7-10 macOS 10.10-10.15
Captioning	Add subtitles directly through Text Effect Strip *Available after Blender 2.76 Tutorial: here	Basic native real-time titling with scaling and positioning available.	Add Text/Tile available Add downloaded subtitles available: Supports formats SRT, ASS, SSA Tutorial: here.	Support generating subtitles from recorded videos Supports uploading subtitles files in .srt or .vtt format	Does NOT read, make, edit, or pass-through subtitles.
Extracting Audio	N/A	N/A	Yes. "Detach Audio from Video"	No.	Yes. "Detach Audio from Video"
Record AND process	No	No	No	Yes. Unlimited videos for a duration of 5min/video Screen record, audio and webcam.	Yes Webcam capture Audio capture