How to edit Videos using windows, or is it apple the only accessible way?

By Karina Velazquez, 1 June, 2025

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Hi guys.
I have this idea of having my own youtube channel, but what regects me from doing so, is that you have to edit your videos in order to make a nice product for visually impaired and non-visually impaired audience, which will be my case.
So, I know that one of the best way to produce my videos is final cut, but I'm not longer a mac owner so I'm wondering if any of you could give advice on how to edit videos using windows as a visually impaired person; what do I need?,
Or maybe a MacMini could be my only way... hope not.
Thanks in advance.

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By TheBlindGuy07 on Sunday, June 1, 2025 - 18:36

I haven't tried any of this myself but I've heard that click champ is quite accessible and has good documentation. (from double tap podcast)

By Icosa on Monday, June 2, 2025 - 02:38

Think I heard someone on this forum mention there being a plug in that lets you use Reaper to edit video but I don't know the details.

By Karina Velazquez on Monday, June 2, 2025 - 03:25

Thanks Brian, it sounds great! I couldn't keep watching the video for a long time because for a non-native-english-speaker it is very hard to understand that accent, and that guy has to level the sound of his voice!, but I will try this webpage, because could be what I need.
greetings.

By Brian on Monday, June 2, 2025 - 05:38

Do not feel bad. I, am, a native English speaker, and I still had a hard time understanding him. 🤨

By Justin Harris on Tuesday, June 3, 2025 - 10:50

I have used the legacy version of the Windows Photos app, and it was actually very nice, pretty accessible, and I was able to do a few things in that, such as splice together some photos and videos, put background music on all of it, adjust music to video volume ratio. Can't speak of transition effects. It probably has them, but I am not exactly a pro at this.
Hope this helps.

By Jonathan Candler on Tuesday, June 3, 2025 - 16:39

Reaper. If ya know how to edit audio, video is mostly the same way.

By TheBlindGuy07 on Tuesday, June 3, 2025 - 22:35

I am terrible with reaper, the very light audio editing I was doing in the past was with audacity <v3 where accessibility was not an afterthought yet. Reaper is worth paying just for its pixel selection mode thing, that is something for which I haven't found any equivalent yet in another software. Thanks again to nvaccess for osara.
So does it means that I can basically import any video file, trim the audio or whatever and the video will be trimmed accordingly? That alone is a very useful thing for us.

By Jonathan Candler on Wednesday, June 4, 2025 - 03:07

Yep, you can trim, edit, do all the things and the video will match up according to what I've read, you can even add your own music tracks into it as well. Do note you'll need the plugins if you don't wanna have to install vlc just to get the video portion to work in reaper because when you import a video file right out the box, it will not play. However if ya wanna add texts that's something I have not gotten the grips of yet, but for doing what we do, it's worth a look into. bonus. you can even import images if you need and stretch them out or do whatever you'd like. I've done this with a couple beats of mine if I just wanted to add my logo across the whole thing and upload to tiktok or whatever social media platform. So, in short, there's a lot you can do with reaper. Let's not forget, you can already use AI to see in generality what your video looks like if you need. Pixy bot comes to mind.