On April 12, the iPhone comes with the app "iMovie Clip" officially released a 3.0 blockbuster update, launching a new "magic movie" and "storyboard" function.
According to Apple's official introduction, the storyboard function includes DIY tutorials, cooking tutorials, product reviews, scientific experiments and many other video types of preset templates, while the magic video function can automatically add special scenes, special effects and music according to the user's selected video clips and photos, instantly generating a beautifully crafted video.
These two new features have greatly improved the usability and software strength of iMovie Clip, but if you want to use these two features, you need to ensure that your device is iOS 15.2 or iPadOS 15.2 and above, iPhone 13, iPad mini 6, iPad Pro (2018) and later devices or Macs equipped with arm chips, relatively speaking, there is still a certain threshold for use.
Magic Video: "Unbroken, Dead and Alive"
Since iMovie Clip first came online, the film's workflow has been presented in a timeline.
▲ Classic iMovie workflow
The timeline is presented in the way most video editing software is currently used, which has many benefits, it is intuitive, and it can easily add special effects, see the proportion of each storyboard in the entire video, and so on.
But its disadvantages are also obvious, it can't "look at the big picture" at a glance, and it can't manage the material well when using more material.
Best of all, for software like iMovie, it doesn't need a timeline for the most part. As a result, the latest magic video feature fundamentally overturns this approach and instead becomes a way of presenting it in a way similar to a "flowchart".
▲ The flowchart on the left is a whole video
Although this presentation method is not as intuitive as the timeline, but the learning cost is very low, it is fast to get started, you can quickly group the material, even if you disconnect it halfway, you don't worry about forgetting the video process, and the basic editing, subtitles, speed, volume and other functions are not missing, click on the icon next to the storyboard and click "Edit Clip" to use this part of the function.
▲ Basically all the functions are still there, but they are in a different position
And the "tone" of the entire video can be determined with one click. Just click on the icon in the following figure to select the style of the video, which can also edit the music, font, theme color and filter options, and can also be changed at any time during the video creation process, as long as the style is not manually modified in the later stage, there will be no video style "repeated jumping".
▲ Set the tone of your videos with one click
In general, magic movies retain almost all the functions of the ordinary iMovie movie workflow, and make it easier to use and more suitable for ordinary users by reconstructing the logic of the entire workflow.
Storyboard: "I'm still me, but stronger"
Users familiar with iMovie May know that in previous versions of the software, in addition to ordinary movies, there is a "trailer" function, which has many movie trailer-style templates for users to choose from.
The latest storyboard function is actually a comprehensive upgrade of the trailer function, the upgraded storyboard function is no longer limited to the narrow video type of trailer, but for more than twenty different types of videos launched different templates.
With this update, the workflow of storyboards has also been changed to the same style as magic movies, and you can directly select styles when creating storyboard videos.
▲ Somehow, the default style of the "cooking" style is "editorial"
Taking the "cooking" style as an example, after entering the editing mode, you can see that a complete set of storyboarding processes has been listed on the left side of the screen, and each storyboard position has a hint to assist the entire shooting process.
▲ Although there is a suspicion of "eight strands of text video", this comprehensive and detailed tip is really useful for video newcomers
Judging from the richness and professionalism of the entire video process, even if the user just takes the storyboard step by step and fills it in, he can make a good food video, which is the power of the storyboard function.
In general, the 3.0 update of "iMovie Clip" is a comprehensive evolution of software functions, it has a more easy-to-use workflow, more presets, more powerful template functions, etc., it is also so, the 3.0 version of the updated "iMovie Clip" is more like from the "simple version of Final Cut Pro X" to "advanced version of the stand-up shooting", template shooting and other functions are also to a certain extent to the "cut professional version" of the new era of video editing software. "Completely renewed" "iMovie Clip", is it your dish?