We've come a long way in three years. Now all this can be done with the iPhone.
Editing with iMovie on your iPhone
Acquire your clips. Careful with overruns, aimlessly rolling footage. With a little pre-production planning you can keep your shots and take to a minimum and still get the coverage you need to tell your story.
Launch the iMovie App
t's $4.99 on from Apple's App store. Start a new projected by tapping the plus sign.
Select a Theme
A selection of themes appears, preset editing contexts with effects, titles and custom music. You'll have a choice as to whether to include the music.
Edit
Your clips appear appear on the timelime. Drag your finger across the canvas to scroll or scrub the clip and play from that point. The timeline can be magnified or shrunk with two fingers by pinching and zooming, compressing the timeline for ease of editing longer clips.
To shorten clips, tap the clip in the timeline and two yellow handles appear. click and drag the handles at in and out points to adjust the clip's duration.
Remove the clip by tapping and holding and then lifting the clip out of the timeline.
Double tapping the clip enables adding titles, assigning a locations and disabling the audio.
Insert
Tapping the insert icon enables importing additional video, stills and audio to your timeline. TO add a photo, tap, Photo. Your camera roll appears.
Tap the image you want and it appears in your timeline where you've left your cursor. Your pic defaults to a customizable Ken Burn effects that pushes and crawls over the photo, a great tool for packages and docs. Adjust the pic's duration as you would a video clip.
NLE
Piece of cake here. Just tap and drag your clips to the desired point on the timeline.
Transitions
Icons representing transitions appear between clips. Double clicking brings up transitions options including cuts, dissolves and fades, or theme specific transitions. Careful here to not get caught up in the effects. Transitions times can be adjusted.
Titles
Each theme comes with its own typography design that you can add anywhere on your timeline.
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