When you buy an Apple device, you have access to a series of free software such as an equivalent of the Microsoft Office suite (Pages, Keynote and Numbers) or creative applications like iMovie.
Good news for iPhone and iPad owners, this simple video editing application is getting updated. iMovie 3.0 introduces two new features that make the exercise even easier and more fun for increasingly convincing results: Magic Movie and Storyboards.
Magic Movie: automatic editing in seconds
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With iMovie, Apple is aimed at novice or even very novice users. Functionality Magic Movie is aimed at the second target since it allows in a few clicks to create a clip with transitions, text and animations in one click.
To create a clip, just choose from the multiple pre-installed albums in the app. Then, we pick from the photo/video album and you’re done. To personalize the whole, it is possible to choose its titles, the types of transitions, the animations, the music etc. Of course we can modulate the length of the shots. For each modification the content adapts automatically.
Storyboards: to play it like the pros
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For slightly more adventurous users, iMovie includes the function Storyboards. As the name suggests, it’s regarding building a story from pre-established structures. The app offers 20 different storyboards depending on the type of video you want (unboxing, tutorial, vlog, cooking etc.).
Each storyboard offers a narrative framework with the types of shots to shoot (very wide-angle, close-up etc.). For each montage, iMovie gives tips for filming, titles, transitions. All these graphic elements can also be integrated in a very simple way by drawing from several styles.
Like with Magic Movie, each style is customizable and the whole video then adapts to the chosen style. It is also possible to integrate your own styles created beforehand. Everything can be accompanied by music that can be found on Music.
All projects can be shared via AirDrop or any other sharing method in a 16:9 format only (no vertical format reserved for Apple’s Clip app, designed for social media content). Supported files are up to 8K resolution. Projects can also be reworked on Mac in the iMovie application (which does not recover these features) or Final Cut Pro.
iMovie 3.0 is already available for free on the App Store.