4/20/2025
In a blog post on your portfolio site, reflect on the experience of learning how to use WeVideo for video editing. How would you feel about helping someone else learn how to use it? What did you find most interesting? What did you find most frustrating? What questions do you still have, and what parts of the tool do you want to explore more deeply?
In full honesty, I am really not a big fan of WeVideo. I’ve done a fair bit of audio and video editing throughout my life so far for various projects, personal or academic, and WeVideo is definitely not my favorite. I much prefer Capcut (free option) or Adobe Premiere (paid). That being said, I definitely feel as though I could walk someone through making a video on WeVideo and would be happy to do so. I do think that the feature of being able to work collaboratively is very interesting, given that few other video editing softwares have that as an option. In that sense, I find WeVideo interesting, and fulfilling a niche that does not have many alternatives. In terms of what I didn’t like about it however, I’m just really not a fan of in-browser video editing and I find that the UI is usually relatively clunky and build to produce videos that don’t really look that good–even though Capcut or Premiere are a bit harder to learn how to use in a single afternoon, they turn out videos that look much better, and usually the software runs a lot smoother. I am also not a huge fan of their exporting system. I’d much rather export the video myself than wait in a que and receive an email, but that is just me. I think if I were to explore WeVideo more, I’d look into options to make the videos look better, and see if by exploring more the available content, there were ways to make videos look a bit more polished. If there are options to make it look better, I think WeVideo could be a really good option for video editing, and something to utilize more in my own personal work.