Trailer allows you to use pre-build templates to make a short movie. One window listing all your assets, one window showing the time line and one final window to preview the assets or show the current movie. In iMovie on both versions, the layout is generally the same. This layout is out there in every video editing software because it’s easy and it’s work. The program is split into three parts: top left is where you get your assets (movies, pictures and sound), the top right is where you view you current assets that you selected in your time line and the bottom half is the timeline, where all the assets are lay over a single timeline. General app layout when you are working on your projectĪfter launching or creating a project, you will be presented with the typical layout of a video editor. The trailer gives you a template to create a short video that is fashion after Hollywood trailers. Both version give you a theme to choose, a trailer or a movie. When launched, you will be presented a list of your past projects and an option to create a new one.

Launching, seeing your project listing and creating a new project is basically the same. iMovie on the iPadOS is functional but needs massive improvements if Apple actually want to use the iPad as a laptop replacement device as they have been touting for years. So here’s the gist: iMovie on macOS is light-years ahead of iMovie on the iPadOS. One would think that a tech juggernaut with obsession with little details like Apple manage to make the iMovie experience consistent on all platforms. Just like Photos, Messages and Mail, iMovie is available on iOS, iPadOS and macOS. It was sold to compete with Microsoft Office but later given away for free as a value added software bundle for the macOS and later iPadOS and iOS.

iMovie was part of iLife Suite which are productivity apps like Microsoft Office. This is pretty much true for Apple’s utility apps like Messages (with iMessage), photos, Shortcuts (coming to Monterey Bay), FaceTime, Stocks and others.Īnother suite of apps that Apple gives away for free is productivity apps like Pages, Keynote and the focus of this article, iMovie.

And if you register all your devices in iCloud, the apps can be synched up with every device you have and act in a certain way.

One of the selling points and key features of Apple ecosystem is that they have a slew of common apps in every device they have sold.

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