When you open it, you’ll first notice how it looks similar to a full size desktop video editor. PowerDirector was designed to be used by touch, but it works just as well through a mouse or touchpad. It was originally designed for Android, but it works flawlessly on the Chromebook. It’s worth noting that both apps we listed below are free, but they do offer a subscription for access to extra features.įirst up, we have a video editing application known as PowerDirector. It’s certainly not as professional as something like Final Cut Pro or many professional software, but it’ll certainly get the job done and then some.

There are at least two top-rated ones on the Google Play Store - both have a ton of features that allow you to edit almost every aspect of your video or movie. To start editing video on Chrome OS, we’ll first need to download a video editing application.

If you stick with us below, we’ll show you how you too can edit video on the Chromebook.

Despite this, did you know that you can still edit video on a Chromebook? With the Google Play Store now here, and despite having low-end hardware, you can still do heavy tasks like video editing on it. Another element you might’ve noticed: Chrome OS is severely underpowered - it mostly has hardware to power the Web browser, as it doesn’t really need to do anything else.

Powerdirector on chromebook