The standard three-pane video-editing interface shows up in iMovie, with source content at the top left, preview top right, and the timeline spanning the bottom of the screen. You import content by tapping the down arrow icon. When you click this, you get two choices: New Movie and New Trailer. On the left side of the Projects view window is a single huge plus-sign button. The latest version has a dark interface (even if you aren't using Dark Mode in macOS Catalina) that starts out with two tabs at top center for Media and Projects. IMovie's interface only shows you the tools you need at the moment and doesn't clutter the screen with all available tools. I tested this version of iMovie on my iPhone X. On the iPhone's iOS 14, iMovie is preinstalled, but you can remove it and reinstall it from the App Store. In testing for this review, I installed it on a 21.5-inch iMac with a 3.1GHz Core i7 CPU and 16GB RAM and on a MacBook Pro with Touch Bar and a 3.1GHz Core i5 CPU and 8GB RAM. The latest version requires OS X 10.14.6 or later and weighs in at over 2GB. Essentially, that means the app is free on nearly all Macs in use.
If you purchased a Mac on or after October 20, 2010, you can get iMovie for free from the Mac App Store. It's particularly suited to iPhone video shooters who want to make something appealing from their clips and photos. Since we last updated our review of iMovie, Apple has introduced few major features, but if you need to get really serious with video editing or to work with many tracks, 360-degree footage, or multicam, you should really move up to Final Cut Pro X, which will seem familiar to iMovie users, despite its vastly greater video editing power and feature set.Īpple's iMovie doesn't offer the 100-track timelines, multicam, customizable transitions, and motion-tracking options that PC consumer video editing software like Corel VideoStudio and CyberLink PowerDirector offer, but if you just want an easy way to put together some video clips and still images into a presentable movie, iMovie is hard to beat. It's a PCMag Editors' Choice for entry-level video editing. iMovie also boasts some of the best storyboard-based movie making tools for novices-Trailers and Movies. It's not always the first with new format support-there's still no 360-degree video support-but it does work with 4K and HEVC.
Apple iMovie includes excellent tools for media organization, color grading, speed, green-screen effects, narration, and soundtrack in your digital movies. The video editing software included with Apple devices hasn't changed much in the past several years, but it still beats what you get in Windows 10, which is just the (admittedly improving) video capabilities built into Windows' Photos app.
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