Open Educational Resources (OER): Videos and Audio Tools

Highly praised video editing software that creates professional-quality videos. It’s fast, flexible, and packed with effects and tools to help you make the most of your clips. Must be downloaded to use. Register for a free license! (Note: there is a paid version with more effects and tools, but you should find the free version very useful).

A free, fast screen recording app that allows you to create a video file, download, or share on YouTube. Free version limits video to 15 minutes.

Free video software that allows you to edit video files and create videos of all types. It supports the most popular video/audio formats and codecs, including DVD, HD and GoPro videos. Preconfigured profiles make the creation of videos for various multimedia and mobile devices a snap. Scroll down to download the screen recorder and video capture tools.

Amara's award-winning technology enables you to caption and subtitle any video for free. For larger subtitling projects the platform makes it easy to manage teams of translators. And you can always purchase high-quality captions or translations from our passionate team of professional linguists.

A free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds.

Dotsub is a browser based, one-stop, self contained system for creating and viewing subtitles for videos in multiple languages across all platforms, including web based, mobile devices, and transcription and video editing systems. It's easy to use, nothing to buy or download, and it's fun. You can upload your videos, transcribe and time caption them, translate them into and from any language, and share them with the world.

Free online video maker and editor. Edit, collaborate, and share across iPhone, iPad, Android, Chromebook, MAC, PC.
Mobile versions:
Android       iTunes

Subtitle Horse is an online subtitle/captions editor. To translate a video simply put in the URL of your file (mp4, ogv, webm, flv, youtube) video and click the submit button. After you finished you can export your subtitles in different formats (VTT, SBV, timedText, SRT, Encore).