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Adobe Creative Cloud includes Premiere and After Effects, as well as an animation program. Adobe has academic pricing as well.

HeadSet says

Adobe Creative Cloud includes Premiere and After Effects, as well as an animation program. Adobe has academic pricing as well.

I will ask the student to follow up on academic pricing.

What is he using at school? Mostly likely Apple and Mac only products.

For Windows, have him play around with KDendlive and OBS Studio.

Those are both free feature rich programs for what they are. One is a video editing suite, and the other is a live stream orchestrator.

Also checkout VideoLan, and get to know how use it to supplement features in the other two.

Tenpoundbass says

What is he using at school? Mostly likely Apple and Mac only products.

For Windows, have him play around with KDendlive and OBS Studio.

Those are both free feature rich programs for what they are. One is a video editing suite, and the other is a live stream orchestrator.

Also checkout VideoLan, and get to know how use it to supplement features in the other two.

He uses a school furnished pathetic chromebook; they are not allowed to use their own laptop. Thank you for the recommendations.

OK But you did say...

gabbar says

Please recommend a windows based video editing software.

Tenpoundbass says

OK But you did say...

gabbar says

Please recommend a windows based video editing software.

You are correct. I bought him a Dell Precision desktop with 16 GB ram and Windows 10 and Eizo monitor recently.

gabbar says

He uses a school furnished pathetic chromebook; they are not allowed to use their own laptop. Thank you for the recommendations.

Place opaque tape over the camera, and if you have an old pair of headphones, cut off the end of the headphones near the plug, and short all the wires together, and plug it into the microphone port.

richwicks says

gabbar says

He uses a school furnished pathetic chromebook; they are not allowed to use their own laptop. Thank you for the recommendations.

Place opaque tape over the camera, and if you have an old pair of headphones, cut off the end of the headphones near the plug, and short all the wires together, and plug it into the microphone port.

How will these measures help?