Edit video app review ios imovie

iMovie is a production-grade video editor that is easy to use, supports a wide range of file formats, and exports movies in up to 8K resolution. It is an official video editor developed by Apple for its devices. Comes with generic templates to produce a video quickly.

CONS

It consumes huge disk space. Needs high processing power and RAM storage. Lacks animation features.

Reason for choosing iMovie

iMovie is free and has most of the editing capabilities needed to produce commercial videos.

Reasons for switching to iMovie

iMovie is robust, fast, free, and works well on Apple computers to create outstanding videos on the breeze.

Anthony

Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Reviewed May 2023

iMovie: The perfect video editing tool for beginners.

As an IT intern at the University, I had the opportunity to use iMovie to edit promotional videos and tutorials. My experience with the tool was very positive. I found that the user interface was very easy to use and allowed me to edit videos quickly. Additionally, the tool includes a wide variety of templates and effects that allowed me to make more attractive videos. I also appreciated the video stabilization feature, which improved the quality of some videos recorded with mobile devices.

PROS

iMovie is a very complete and user-friendly video editing tool. The user interface is intuitive and allows for easy video editing, whether for beginners or advanced users. The tool includes a wide variety of templates and effects to enhance video quality and make it more attractive to viewers. iMovie also allows for audio editing and the addition of music tracks. Additionally, the tool has a video stabilization feature that can improve the quality of videos recorded with mobile devices.

CONS

Although iMovie is an excellent tool, it has some limitations. For example, it is not possible to edit 360-degree videos. It can also be a bit slow when processing high-resolution videos or larger projects. Finally, some advanced features may be difficult to find in the user interface, so users may need to do additional research to discover all the tool's capabilities.

Reasons for switching to iMovie

Although there are many video editing software options available, iMovie stands out for its ease of use and integration with other Apple products. Additionally, iMovie is a free tool that comes pre-installed on all Mac devices, making it an attractive option for users who do not want to spend money on video editing software.

Faraz

Medical Practice, 11-50 employees

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Reviewed October 2023

Not for professionals

we wanted to make videos in imovie to save time but unfortunately was unable to do so.

PROS

the user interface is easy for beginners. Anyone who is not using it for professional use can benefit from the basic video editing features

CONS

there are extremely few options for titles, transitions, and animations. Also, the rendering time takes ages and the worst part is that it creates only .MOV file which first of all is very large compared to MP4 and secondly it has to be converted to the more widely used formats

Ashlyn

Commercial Real Estate, 1 employee

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Reviewed October 2023

A Great Tool for Apple Users

iMovie has been awesome for helping me to professionally edit my videos. While I wish it were easier to overlay the video with photos/graphics, I do think it is great how you can cut the video frame by frame. Unfortunately, once you have finished editing your content, you can expect a long upload time to your social media platforms.

PROS

iMovie does a great job at allowing users to edit their videos by separating audio, video, and easily allowing adjustments at a frame-by-frame basis.

CONS

I feel iMovie does a great job for professional video editing, but compared to other video editing tools, it is much more difficult to overlay the video with photos and graphics. It also takes a long time to transport finished videos to social media platforms.

Arturo

Marketing and Advertising, 2-10 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Reviewed July 2021

The video editor that gets you out of trouble

In summary, I highly recommend this video editor to make a simple, easy and fast video for your school work or something casual as I said before, but if it is for something more professional, I highly recommend using another video editor, because of the different tools that these have and not iMovie.

PROS

This video editor comes bundled with your Apple device, so you can enjoy this service without having to pay for it. Let's talk about the advantages of this video editor software, we can say that it is quite simple to create a video or a trailer that even comes with some templates with different themes according to your work, but honestly the templates that iMovie gives you, are very simple and even already known so I do not recommend using them so much. Afterwards, to start making the video, you just need to choose videos or images from your reel, and it's a matter of dragging and dropping them. You can add transitions, animations and even music if you want to have a better atmosphere to the video. Finally you can share it with Airdrop or to any social network in the same way.

CONS

It could be that it is very "basic", since to do it for a school job or something casual like gathering several family photos and videos of the last vacation, it can be accepted, but if it is for a fairly important exam or for some work that you are asked to do, I do not recommend it so much, I would recommend another type of video editor, since you can't do much in iMovie other than drag, drop and share your video, so if it's for some casual work fine, but if it's for something more important, use another more complete and professional video editor.

Reasons for switching to iMovie

Because it is professional, because of the high quality tools available and because it is free to the public!

Stefan

Package/Freight Delivery, 11-50 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Reviewed October 2023

Great for video production

PROS

This application allows the product of amazing videos with lots of customisations and special effects

CONS

To use iMovie effectively, it takes a lot of effort to learn the application

Grant

Motion Pictures and Film, 1 employee

Used daily for less than 6 months

Reviewed October 2023

It is a good product

I love using it

PROS

Its a great tool for beginners I learned how to use it in high school

CONS

It works great I love using imovie for projects

Julie

Real Estate, 51-200 employees

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Reviewed October 2023

iMovie

Great experience and would recommend to make videos and movies!

PROS

iMovie is very user friendly and easy to use. I like that it is compatible with Apple.

CONS

The least thing I like about iMovie is that it can sometimes be slow and you have to create new files vs save the current one.

Chiara

Arts and Crafts, 1 employee

Reviewed October 2023

Be creative with this great helpful video maker

I’m very happy with my experience with it even though I don’t use it very much. I recommend this video maker because it’s free and it can help you in creating beautiful videos.

PROS

I could make a short video with just the pictures I took on a trip. It has a variety of tools and functions that helped me put together different images with also special effects. And last but not least you can download your video and share it on your social.

CONS

It’s not very easy of use. It’s a bit complicated at the beginning and I spent a lot of time in learning how to manage the different tools. Poor in the variety of music themes.

Alexis

Accounting, 51-200 employees

Used monthly for less than 6 months

Reviewed November 2023

It gets the job done.

PROS

I am not very savvy with programs like this to make movies, etc. I was able to figure it out though, which must mean it is easy enough to use and for the simple movies I have wanted to make, I was able to make the edits and such that I wanted to.

CONS

I think it took me a while and it seems like there could probably be easier programs out there to make movies. If I used it longer and more regularly, it would probably get easier and quicker to create the movies.

Ashley

Mental Health Care, 2-10 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Reviewed October 2021

iMovie for small businesses and students

We had to watch YouTube tutorial videos to understand all of the features and how to use them. An optional brief training or overview on the basics would have been helpful. This is not for beginners if you don't have experience using software and editing. However, once you finally get the hang of it, the end product always comes out looking professional and clean.

PROS

The end product looks very professional because of all the editing tools that really bring out details and show quality. Adding music, adjusting the timing of scenes, and words on screen were easy features to use.

CONS

Uploading media, organizing projects by folders, and finding media in the various folders was difficult and confusing. Also, there weren't pointers or explanations to walk you through. The "help" and FAQ on the Apple site did not provide much support, or the detailed instructions without definitions and clarity were hard to follow.

Reason for choosing iMovie

We work off of Mac/Apple products, so iMovie was more compatible with our operating systems.

Joseph

Higher Education, 10,000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed August 2020

Joe fumbles through iMovie

It's just one of the basic Apple tools that I have one most of my max. Most of the time I deferred to go to an Adobe product to do this kind of work because it gives me more flexibility and the end product has a higher quality.

PROS

It's one of those out of the box Apple products that come with most Apple technology. When I movie first came out it was an easy application and very inexpensive. It's not quite as easy as it used to be but it's still an expensive.

CONS

The application is a bit clunky and hard to navigate through you need to do a lot of exploration and digging to find the basic functionality of the application. An average Yeutter user is frustrated and usually either stops using the application or doesn't use it to its forced capabilities.

Reason for choosing iMovie

I choose it as a product it comes with my Mac so it's an out-of-the-box kind of application like numbers and pages. I use it if I'm just doing something down and dirty and quick or if I just want someone to be able to create some basic video. But again for the most part I'm using adobe premiere for most of what I do.

Ayesha

E-Learning, 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed August 2022

Create Video Content With Zero Difficulty.

I've been utilizing it for a while now. Its user interface is very engaging. Anyone can use this. Although it might not appear to be powerful, it has a considerable amount of powerful features. Capable of creating excellent content.

PROS

The templates are a tremendous time saver. Every feature needed to create quality content is included. Very quick exporting and easy procedure. I love how each function has been enhanced to suit the user's requirements better.

CONS

Although it has no plugin capabilities that might speed up production, it is still an excellent tool for editing videos.

Sam

Design, 1 employee

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Reviewed October 2021

iMovie - The best editor to start with!

Overall, my experience with iMovie is good. While I definitely prefer more robust video editing programs, iMovie is still my go-to when introducing new people to video editing. iMovie does simplicity and better than any other video program, which makes it an amazing pice of software for a quick video.

PROS

The best feature that iMovie has to offer is its overall simplicity. I love that someone with very little video experience can open up iMovie and get started with a video project right away. iMovie takes a lot of the confusing thought out of video editing and instead allows users to quickly drag and drop and move things around. Perhaps the best hidden feature of iMovie is its ability to quickly generate cinematic movie trailers—complete with music and text. iMovie has some great pre-made templates that really make video editing fun and intuitive.

CONS

While iMovie is great for its simplicity, its simplicity is also its downfall. While iMovie can still accomplish a significant amount when it comes to video editing, it lacks more of the precise and robust features offered by other video editing programs such as Adobe Premiere and Final Cut. Having learned video editing on more advanced software, switching back to iMovie was quite difficult. Because it is so simple, the workflow looks vastly different than the majority of video editing softwares. It lacks motion integration, detailed colorization and timeline size/format setup and exporting, for example. However, these features aren't fully necessary for a great product.

Jacob

Computer Software, 1 employee

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed December 2022

iMovie creativity on a budget

My overall experience with us as I’ve seen great projects come out of it, but I’ve also seen some more childish stuff that has come out of it. As in projects from student I guess it really depends on how much effort you’re really willing to put into the project.

PROS

iMovie is a great tool for students as well as amateur film producers to use to create video and content, especially in the last couple years, where we’ve started, adding the iPhones where you can edit in Doe B and sell mode and you add that with the simplicity of iMovie, and then you can certainly make home movies that look like actual films

CONS

Sometimes this software is a little bit too simple and you can overlook some of the features of it in the templates and the different fade out and burnouts and things like that that are meant for picture collages

Robert

Music, 1 employee

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed July 2022

Imovie a great video editor for beginners and advanced editors.

Great experience. I've been using Imovie since 2009 and still to this day. Imovie just covers good enough tools and options for anyone to quickly edit a cool looking pro video.

PROS

That it's easy to use for a beginner and advanced users. Lot's of other third party editors have way too many options or things that make your head all dizzy. Anyone can just look up a tutorial on Youtube and be ready to go within a few minutes to make a cool looking pro video for their social media or work.

CONS

I would like Imovie to have a bit more Filter options for advanced users that like to get a bit more creative with their work.

Matteo

Entertainment, 1 employee

Used more than 2 years

Reviewed March 2021

Perfect for personal use

I loved it for personal use, despite I'm a professional Video Producer/Motion Designer. Realize video/photo slideshow for friends and family are so fast and easy.

PROS

Easy to use, intuitive and rich of useful features. It has evertything a video-editing software need to have for personal use with no purpose of professional use. Perfect for editing Photo slideshow, Vacation videos, Family videos. On a Mac platform it's absolutely a MUST HAVE, perfect integration with all Mac libraryes. Really useful also the integration with iOS app, so you can Edit in mobility and finish it at home.

CONS

A little bit tricky the timeline and not so easy understand clearly the duration of clips. Sometime it makes you nervous to understand some editing steps. It's not a cross platform software, it works only on Apple devices.

Reason for choosing iMovie

already present in Apple devices, and really superior to 90% of free alternatives in terms of easy-to-use and quality.

Rachel

Broadcast Media, 1 employee

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed December 2021

iMovie: great for beginners, but definitely not for the pros

This is what I began my editing experience using when I started my position in high school. It is a great learning tool, but I would honestly consider this to be a “training wheels” program for editors.

PROS

This would definitely help beginners or people that just need simple tasks completed, like editing clips together and nothing more. It is intuitive, fast, and extremely easy to figure out on your own.

CONS

I do not like how basic iMovie is. There are minimal things that can be done when creating videos with it. This can be helpful for some people, but for those who would like to edit and make their video actually look good, this is not for them.

Sithi

Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed September 2022

ilove iMovie

It is a valuable tool for those just starting in video editing. It is an extremely user-friendly tool for creating with an iPhone, iPad, or Mac.

PROS

it is ideal for quick editing. I have to create short presentation clips for work that are informative. That is where it excels. The effects and transitions are superb.

CONS

Working with huge files might make it laggy. if you want to work on anything more professional, I advise using another software.

Alan

Entertainment, 2-10 employees

Used more than 2 years

Reviewed December 2020

iMovie - easy to use - one industry standard

I used it for years and years and was always happy with it, I also liked its seem less integration with iDVD at the time, but I no longer make dvds so that would not be needed anymore.

PROS

I used iMovie for many many years almost daily. Learning how to use basic operations was easy and the end product was more than good enough for home and personal use. I eventually moved up to using More professional products to gain additional professional tools to improve my videos, but using iMovie taught me all I needed to do so much.

CONS

It was limited - I eventually move up to a more professional editing software to be able to purchase additional editing tools for special effects I wanted, but in reality I did not have to move up if I didn’t want to.

Reason for choosing iMovie

At the time, it was free with all Apple computers and it was easy to use.

Trincell

Food & Beverages, 1 employee

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed July 2021

A Professional Movie

At one point I was a beginner until I was able to find my way around it.

PROS

Easy to understand and use tools. Free access to user guides on Apple's support site. Can mix both still and moving images in one video platform with just a tiny transition

CONS

You have to keep track of the social platforms and which are connected for direct sharing if possible.

Reason for choosing iMovie

More features and easier to use

Henry

Media Production, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed September 2020

Gets the job done... sometimes

PROS

Depends on what you need to do video editing-wise. If low-key editing is your task at hand, this might be your program. Pretty straight forward program that I've been using since 2005 so I've seen it evolve.

CONS

If a larger scale project is what you're working with (20 min +), I might suggest considering a different software. Can def slow up and feel clunky.

Sakke

Translation and Localization, 1 employee

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Reviewed May 2023

iSatisfied!

Overall experience with iMovie is very much positive. There are a lot paid softwares that don't offer nearly half as much as iMovie does. The quality of your videos doesn't suffer a lot and generally helps your simple editing well. I can recommend iMovie to anybody who doesn't need professional level editing tools!

PROS

With iMovie the most obvious positive thing is its price - free! For a free app iMovie brings you a lot of tools to help you create whatever you want! I've personally used iMovie for my drum and guitar covers and it suits my needs very well. You can add separate tracks of audio to your video very easily. Overall experience is very smooth and the app functions properly. Your work is safe with iMovie!

CONS

The only negative thing about iMovie when using a mobile device is that sometimes it's hard to fine tune stuff with your fingers on a smaller screen.

Is there a better video editing app than iMovie?

We have compiled a list of solutions that reviewers voted as the best overall alternatives and competitors to iMovie, including Adobe Premiere Pro, Camtasia, Adobe Creative Cloud Express, and Wondershare Filmora. Have you used iMovie before?

Is iMovie any good for video editing?

iMovie is a good video editor hands down. It'll give you everything you need to edit a video from scratch, as long as you're not using it professionally. However, if you are making a living out of video editing, iMovie, despite being a decent app, could be a little underwhelming.

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