Northern Illinois University
Educator Licensure and Preparation

As part of the edTPA, you'll need to provide videos of your teaching. Below are examples of programs you can use to prepare your videos for submission.

Be sure to read the edTPA video guidelines before editing your videos.

Video Editing

NCH VideoPad

Download a free video editing application for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android systems.

• How-tos and support.
• Help manual.
• Tutorial video, part one (YouTube).
• Tutorial video, part two (YouTube).

IMovie

IMovie is the Mac native video editing tool.

• IMovie - official Apple support.
• Get help with iMovie.

Video Compression

HandBrake video compression software is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder.

Find the latest support documentation for HandBrake.