How to: iMovie for iOS Basics

 

By and large I love the iWork and iLife apps for iOS, but… But iMovie confounded me at first (and still confuses me at times). Sometimes I’m not quite sure if it’s as easy as iMovie on the Mac or maybe it’s easier. One thing that is for sure once you get the hang of iMovie for iOS, it’s a great video editor for quick and dirty videos on the go. As powerful as iMovie on the Mac? Nope, but sometimes that’s okay. In this video demo I give you a few tips and hints for using iMovie for iOS

Much like GarageBand for iOS, iMovie for iOS is pretty powerful as tablet apps go (funny that Apple hasn’t updated iMovie or iPhoto to really take advantage of the A6X chip yet), but both are really intended as “lite” versions of their desktop counterparts. If you start with that idea at the beginning of a project you’ll be a lot less frustrated as you go along.

This video goes through a few of the basics of iMovie like pulling in a clip, making easy edits, adding a photo, and adding music to a clip. In the video I demo a “basic project” not making a trailer. Trailers are very cool, but also require more shots to pull together for a demo.
When making the video (after a few minutes refreshing my memory with all the features), I forgot to include how you add titles and text to clips. The rest of the take was awesome, so here is how that feature works.

Double tap on a clip and you will see menu pop up. Tap “Title Style” and you’ll see something like this: