With the likes of YouTube, fast Internet and modern video camera recorders, sharing and customising video content can be made easy via a semi-decent computer. If you are looking at buying a PC that can process videos, you want something similar to a gaming PC, with a decent amount of RAM (16GB), a decent processor (Ryzen 7 for example) and a good GPU (a discrete graphics processor such as a NVIDIA GTX or RTX). Windows 10 and 11 include two free video editors. The “Photos Legacy” app, which includes an “older” but less buggy video editor (the default we use for now) and the newer but sometimes crashes from experience, “Microsoft Clipchamp”.

When processing an MP4 video, the “Photos Legacy” app has several useful features, these include joining clips together into one video (concatenation), trimming videos, splitting videos (useful if you want to remove a part of the video recording), adding text, overlaying custom audio and a variety of effects to choose from. If you are creating a somewhat long presentation to upload to YouTube, recorded with a digital camera recorder, the “Photos Legacy” app is recommended. Our experience in using Microsoft Clipchamp is that we could not process the videos (about an hour long in content at 4K resolution) on semi-decent hardware.

To begin posting presentations to YouTube, you will need a 4K Digital Camera Recorder, a semi-decent gaming PC, a decent Internet connection (as the videos are usually 2-4GB in size per hour of content in HD) – such as 20Mbps download and 10Mbps upload. You can access the “Photos Legacy” app by typing “Video Editor” in the search bar in Windows and selecting “New Video Project”, after typing in the title to your video, you can drag and drop video content from your 4K Digital Camera Recorder memory, usually connected by USB to your computer and appearing as drive in windows File Explorer.