- Hey, it's Justin Brown here from Primal Video.
At Primal Video, we're all about helping you create
your videos more efficiently and effectively.
So if you're using your iOS device, your iPad
or your iPhone for creating your content videos,
in this video we're going to cover the two pieces of
editing software you should definitely look at
if you're going to be editing on your iOS device.
Now if you've ever looked in the app store and searched
for video editing, you'll know that there is an absolute
ton of options out there for video editing on your iPad
or iPhone.
I've spent so much time trialing and testing and playing
around with all different sorts of editing apps.
Most of them I've found are very very simple
and will allow you to do some basic trimming,
maybe cutting the start or cutting the finish,
maybe cutting your clip in half, a lot of them don't
progress any further than that.
At the other end of the scale, there is fully automated apps
where you'll just press a button and it will create
something of it's own accord, it chooses your shots,
it creates something template based with a track
and pushes that out for you.
So the editing that I'm talking about is for your
content videos where you'll want full control over
your editing, and really you'll want to mimic what your,
what you would be able to do on your computer.
So this video isn't meant to be a full review of these
two pieces of software, in my opinion, these two are the
stand out video editing apps on iOS and I feel
they're worthy of checking out.
The best case scenario, I feel, we'll be if you're using
your iOS device to film your videos, then copy the footage
over and edit them on your desktop.
If that's not an option for you, then by all means
check out these apps and they'll allow you to edit
some decent videos.
So with that said, I've narrowed it done to two apps
which I think are worthy of mentioning that are decent
editing apps on iOS devices.
These aren't just template based editors, they will give
you full control over your editing, allow you to add
in voiceovers, music tracks, to pick up and adjust
and move your clips around.
They both take a slightly different approach to editing,
but needless to say they're both decent apps for editing
on an iOS device.
Now, the first one is probably no surprise,
and it's probably an obvious choice really, is iMovie.
Whether you've actually used it before or not,
I'm sure it's probably the logical thing that people think
editing on a Mac or an iOS, let's look at iMovie.
It's actually quite good.
From the moment you open the app, it's easy to work out
how to add voiceovers, tracks, how to easily trim down
your clips, how to split your clips, and how to pick
them up and move them around.
From there, it's just a matter of getting creative,
working at what you want to do and hitting that
share button to send it direct to either Facebook,
YouTube, any other social media platform or to your iCloud
as backup or just to save it back to your phone,
you could later transfer to your computer.
One of the great things about iMovie on Mac is that
it's easy to transfer your project if you've been working
on your phone or your iPad to transfer it to your actual Mac
and finish the project there.
There is also a heap of templates, if you want to go down
the template based editing route, if not, just choose
the standard template and you'll be open to create
whatever you'd like.
The iMovie app isn't free, but it's not going to break
your bank, either.
It's 7.99 Australian, and I'm pretty sure you can get
it for around three dollars 50 in the U.S. app store.
The other app that I would recommend is Pinnacle Studio,
and it's around four dollars 50 Australian.
There is a pro version as well, which is around the
20 dollar mark.
The main difference between the regular and the pro version
is the pro version supports different frame rates,
multiple frame rates, and up to 4K video files as well.
It also allows you to export direct to another cloud
platform like DropBox or Google Drive or OneDrive.
It also has a really advanced trimming feature which allows
you to get frame by frame based editing, so it allows
you full control of your editing right down to a frame
by frame basis.
Whether you're going the pro version or not, it is probably
the most advanced piece of editing software that I've seen
on iOS.
You can easily add voiceovers, music, pick up and adjust
your clips, adjust your in and out points or your trimming
of your clips, splitting clips, it really is as close
to a desktop alternative on your iPad as you'll find.
The other feature, similar to iMovie, that Pinnacle has
is the ability to share your project from your iOS device
and edit on your windows computer in the Pinnacle Studio
software.
So if your a Pinnacle Studio user on Windows, that means
you can save your projects that your start on your iOS
device, phone or iPad, and transfer it to your computer
and finish off your project there, which is pretty powerful.
I've got a couple of my clients that are actually using
Pinnacle Studio Pro in their workflow for creating their
videos and you wouldn't know that they're filming
and editing on iOS devices, the videos look that good.
So what I really like about these two pieces of software
versus all the other ones that I've tried is that these two
are the closest to mimicking video editing on a computer,
which means it's easy to pick up your clips, trim them
down, move them around and get creative with your editing,
which is what you would be able to do if you're editing
on a computer.
So this video isn't meant to be a full review of iMovie
and of Pinnacle and a comparison between the two,
in my opinion, these two are the stand out video editing
apps on iOS, I'd actually recommend that you check them
both out and work out which one works best for you
and your workflow, because it's all about making it
seamless and making it easy and using a program that just
comes naturally to you and is logical for you to use.
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