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Ask HN: How do you teach a 7 year old visual editing on PC?

Hi all. As stated in the title, I'm planning to teach my 7 year old brother video / image editing. We can't keep these kids from wanting to became a streamer and recording themselves, might as well get something useful from this.

I guess there are too many applications for mobile (heard something called CapCut) but i'd like to do this on a PC. I'm looking for something like Scratch for Premiere / Photoshop. Educational or just tool suggestions are okay, i can learn the tool firsthand if it's easy enough and teach him afterwards. Any suggestions?

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Re:Ask HN: How do you teach a 7 year old visual editing on PC? by gus_massa on Sunday November 23, 2025 @08:47PM (#46029451)
I used https://www.shotcut.org/ to edit a few videos, it has many effects.

For live streaming https://obsproject.com/ but I don't remember too much.