Turn your videos into movie magic.
With iMovie for iOS and macOS, you can enjoy your videos like never before. It’s easy to browse your clips and create Hollywood-style trailers and stunning 4K-resolution movies. You can even start editing on iPhone or iPad, then finish on your Mac.
2017 UPDATE – Larry Jordan on the New Macbook Pro. Larry Jordan has posted a couple of different articles looking at the new Macbook Pro including one specifically breaking down the functionality of the Touchbar in FCPX. The post that interested me the most was on his thoughts on how best to configure the new Macbook Pro for video editing.
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See a film shot in 4K resolution on iPhone and edited with iMovie.
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Easy. From the first scene to the last.
Whether you’re using a Mac or an iOS device, it’s never been easier to make it in the movies. Just choose your clips, then add titles, music, and effects. iMovie even supports 4K video for stunning cinema-quality films. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is a wrap.
Studio-Quality Titles
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Select from dozens of styles to add beautifully animated titles and credits to your movies. On a Mac, you can easily customize the font, size, formatting, and color of the text.
High-Fidelity Filters
Choose from 10 creative video filters that add a cinematic touch. Give your film a nostalgic silent‑era style, a vintage western appearance, or a futuristic cool-blue look. It’s simple to apply filters to individual clips or your entire movie at once.
Extra-Special Effects
Make action shots more exciting by slowing them down. Let viewers fly through scenes by speeding them up. Or add a broadcast feel to your school report with picture-in-picture and split-screen effects.
Soundtracks, Simplified
Rock your video with over 80 smart soundtracks on iOS that intelligently adjust to match the length of your movie. You can also add built-in sound effects or record your own voiceover to create a video that sounds as good as it looks.
Appear Anywhere
Transport yourself with green-screen effects.
Go everywhere you’ve always wanted to — without leaving home. With green-screen effects in iMovie for iOS and macOS, you can place yourself or your characters in exotic locations with a tap or a click. Masking controls and strength adjustments let you fine-tune the effect for maximum believability.
You have hundreds of videos. And one big dream to be a moviemaker. iMovie trailers let you quickly create fun, Hollywood-style movie trailers from all that footage. Choose from a range of templates in almost any genre, pick your studio logo, and type in your movie title and credits. Then add photos and videos to the storyboard. Whether you’re using an iPhone, iPad, or Mac, you’ll have an instant blockbuster.
iMovie for iOS and iMovie for macOS are designed to work together. You can start cutting a project on your iPhone, then use AirDrop or iCloud Drive to wirelessly transfer it to your iPad. You can also send a project from your iPhone or iPad to your Mac for finishing touches like color correction and animated maps. And you can even open iMovie projects in Final Cut Pro to take advantage of professional editing tools. Time to take a bow.
iMovie on MacBook Pro
You have a great touch for making movies.
iMovie is even easier to use with MacBook Pro, featuring the revolutionary Touch Bar. The most useful commands automatically appear on the keyboard, right where you need them. And MacBook Pro easily powers through demanding 4K video projects so you can edit and export in record time.
iMovie on iPad Pro
A powerful performance in every movie.
iMovie delivers a tour de force on iPad Pro. Work with multiple 4K video clips. Create effects like green screen, picture‑in‑picture, or split screen and play them back instantly. Use keyboard shortcuts to speed up your editing performance. And with the USB‑C port on iPad Pro, you can connect to an external display to show others your latest cut in 4K while you continue editing.
iMovie in the Classroom
Assignments that come to life.
Engage your students through video storytelling. Students can use green-screen effects to go back in time for history projects, or create split-screen and picture-in-picture effects to report on current events. Drag-and-drop trailers make it even simpler to create beautiful, personal projects that look and sound great. And iMovie for iOS works with ClassKit, so teachers can assign projects to students, and students can easily hand in their finished assignments right from the app.
Download iMovie
iMovie is easy to use, and it’s free. Just click to download and install on your Mac or iOS device.
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Clips is a free iOS app for making and sharing fun videos with text, effects, graphics, and more.
Learn more about clipsWhether you use Final Cut Pro, Premiere, or Resolve, video editing is most likely the most intensive use of your machine's graphics card, CPU, and RAM. This video gives a comparison between the machines when benchmarked and tested in various situations.
Max Yuryev is known for publishing videos where he tests the latest gear, whether it's cameras or Macs. The 2018 MacBook Pros were released recently, and there were several issues with regards to over-heating and the machines using less of the GPU and CPU to reduce the thermal build up inside the casing.
Apple fixed it by releasing a patch update, but it's quite strange to think the largest tech company in the world, with a trillion dollar market cap, didn't do sufficient testing. When it comes to pro gear, testing is one of the most important parts of the development, and they should be doing more than what's needed before releasing it to its massive user base. It's for professionals. It should just work, or that's what Apple used to say. There has been a backlash on most social networks, but it seems as if the patch they released with an update fixed the thermal issues.
Results
Final Cut Pro renders quicker in most instances, but there is almost no difference in time when comparing the three different Macs Yuryev tested. It's an Apple-developed application and workflow, so it's understandable for them to optimize the application to run as smoothly as possible.
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Adobe Premiere Pro is the laggard here, and there is no comparison when it comes to render times. It's a known fact that Adobe's video editing software takes longer, with all three the machines, which again, render at roughly the same speeds.
Resolve is almost rendering at the same speeds as Final Cut across the board, which is quite impressive.
My Recommendation
I usually go for the top spec machine. But in this instance, I tend to agree with Yuryev on what machine is best for video editing, especially if you're doing so on Premiere Pro like I do. The 2.2 GHz clock speed with the i7 six-core processor, 32 GBs of RAM, and the AMD Radeon Pro 560X GPU will do nicely.