The Video Editor for Teachers

• Record lessons with the built-in recorder studio

  Capture your screen with audio, your webcam, or both at once, and use the presentation recorder with its built-in teleprompter to read from your notes while you talk. Everything lands straight on the timeline, ready to trim. The screen recorder page covers the full setup.

• A video editor for teachers on school Chromebooks

  EchoWave runs in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari with nothing to install, so it works on district-managed Chromebooks where you cannot add software. Rendering happens on a cloud render farm, which means a five-year-old staff laptop produces the same output as a new workstation.

• Auto-captions for accessibility and silent viewing

  Automatic speech-to-text generates captions with word-level timestamps, and you pick from 176 caption styles or keep them plain and readable. Captions help deaf and hard-of-hearing students, English learners, and anyone watching homework videos on a bus with the sound off. The caption generator page shows the full workflow.

• Cut mistakes by editing the transcript

  EchoWave transcribes your recording, then you delete a sentence in the transcript and the matching video disappears from the timeline. It also removes ums, uhs, and long silences automatically, which routinely tightens a rambling first take into something students will actually finish.

• Annotate with text, arrows, and zoom

  Drop text callouts and arrows on the exact step you want students to notice, then keyframe a zoom so the working shows up even on a phone screen. There are 81 text animations if you want labels to appear on cue. See annotate video for examples.

• Transcribe lectures and export the text

  Turn a recorded lecture into a searchable transcript, then export it as TXT for study notes or as SRT and VTT for your LMS caption slot. Subtitles translate into 86 languages, and bilingual subtitles show two languages at once for multilingual families. Full details on the lecture transcription page.

• Blur student faces and names

  Draw a blur or pixelate box over anything you should not publish, like a student's face, a name on a worksheet, or an email address on screen. If the subject moves, keyframe the box to follow. It is a small feature that saves a lot of re-recording.

• Resize for wherever your class watches

  Start in 16:9 for YouTube, Google Classroom, and most LMS players, then resize the same project to 9:16 or 1:1 for a school social account. Resizing is a manual crop and zoom, so you control exactly what stays in frame.

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   Record or upload your footage

   Record your screen and webcam in the browser, or upload MP4, MOV, WebM, or AVI files from a phone, camera, or an old lecture capture. The canvas sizes itself to your first clip automatically.

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   Trim the mistakes

   Split and cut on the multi-track timeline, or open the transcript and delete the sentences you fumbled. Run filler-word and silence removal to tighten the pacing without hunting through the waveform.

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   Caption and annotate

   Generate auto-captions, correct any names or subject terms with word-level editing, and pick a readable style. Add text callouts, arrows, and a zoom on the step that matters, and blur anything that should stay private.

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   Render in the cloud and share

   Render on EchoWave's cloud servers, which keeps a Chromebook from breaking a sweat. Free exports are HD 720p MP4 with a small removable EchoWave watermark badge and a short branded end card, ready for Classroom, YouTube, or your LMS. Paid plans remove the badge and raise quality to 1080p, 4K on Pro, and 8K on Business.

• 16:9 Widescreen

  • YouTube
  • Google Classroom
  • LMS
• 9:16 Vertical

  • Shorts
  • Reels
  • TikTok
• 1:1 Square

  • School feed
  • Newsletters
  • Instagram

• Flipped classroom lessons

  Record a ten-minute explainer with the presentation recorder and teleprompter, trim it, and post it so class time goes to practice instead of lecture. Captions mean students can watch anywhere, including on a quiet phone at home.

• Cleaning up lecture capture

  Upload the raw recording from your lecture hall or video call, then let silence removal and transcript editing cut a full period of footage down to the parts worth rewatching. Export an SRT alongside it for the LMS caption slot.

• Support for multilingual students

  Translate subtitles into any of 86 languages, or show bilingual subtitles so a newcomer reads their home language under the English audio. Parent-facing videos and announcements get the same treatment.

• Software and lab tutorials

  Screen record a walkthrough of the grading portal, a graphing calculator, or a lab procedure, then zoom in on each click and label it with an arrow. Short, captioned how-tos cut down repeated questions all term.

• Feedback on student work

  Record your screen while you talk through an essay or project, which is faster than writing comments and easier for students to take in. Blur names before using any student example with the whole class.

• Announcements and school events

  Cut together morning announcements, a sports recap, or concert highlights, and resize the same edit to 9:16 for the school's social pages. Overlay the school logo from your brand kit so everything looks consistent.

Based on each tool's public pages as of July 2026. Education plans and free-tier limits change often, so confirm current details before rolling a tool out to your class.