

However, as of March 2016 it’s still on the App Store – so grab it while you can! 2. Sadly, Clips’ developer has been bought by Google back in November 2015 with the app expected to disappear from the App Store within three months. Once you’re done you can share them wherever you choose. You can then add transitions and alter the speed of clips.

Then you land on the edit screen where you can trim clips, by dragging grab handles, and re-order them, by dragging a clip up or down the screen. Once you’ve launched the app and chosen the clips you want to import, you decide on the background music you want to add, if any.

It’s a terrific tool for importing clips from your Photos library and putting them together while adding music. Clips Video EditorĬlips is about as simple as video editing gets, but that doesn’t mean it lacks power.

But it’s not the shooting of video that the iPhone is good for, you can edit movies on it too, and while you might not want to edit an entire full-length movie on one, it’s more than up to the job of putting together shots for a short home movie or YouTube submission.įor most people Apple’s own iMovie is the go-to app for editing movies on either an iPhone or an iPad, but there are lots of other apps which can trim, cut, splice, and add effects, titles, and a soundtrack to your iPhone masterpiece. The makers of that movie used an app called Filmic Pro, a steadicam (essential to avoid shaky camera syndrome) and a set of anamorphic lenses (to give the film a cinematic look) to shoot a complete movie. The iPhone is a fantastic tool for shooting video, as demonstrated by one of the breakout hits from 2015’s Sundance movie festival, Tangerine which was shot entirely on an iPhone 5s. It’s a great tool for creating content as well as consuming it, and nowhere is this more apparent than with video. The iPhone has always been more than just a device for checking email, surfing the web and posting Facebook status updates.
