Here’s How To Edit Video on Your Phone
By Andrew Robinson
The days of needing a computer to edit a video are gone. With a few exceptions, you can now edit any style of video right from the palm of your hand. If you’re an iPhone user, you have a quality camera and editing software built into your device. With a few tweaks to your camera settings, a solid microphone, and lighting, you can produce professional-looking videos any time.
How to Do It
In the Photos app, you can trim your video, adjust color and light, and add filters. It’s not possible to merge multiple clips into one video or add onscreen text. Therefore, you’ll need iMovie for that. iMovie also lets you trim clips while allowing you to add titles, background music, sound effects, voiceovers, filters, and seamless transitions.
With your iPhone, open the Photos app. Tap the videos album and select your video to begin. Once you have selected your video, click edit in the top right corner of your screen.
A timeline bar will appear at the bottom of the screen showing each frame of your video. Below the timeline bar, you’ll find a set of four editing options:
- Edit – shows the video timeline.
- Adjust – controls the video’s shadows, highlights, contrast, warmth, saturation, vibrancy, tint, sharpness, and other features.
- Filter – applies different color filters to the video including vivid, dramatic, mono, and silver tone.
- Crop – allows you to crop the size of your video using the guidelines.
Next, is editing and adjusting your video. Tap and hold either end of the timeline to activate the trimming tool. A yellow border around the timeline bar will indicate that the tool is working.
Move the sliders to change the start and stop times and cut out the unwanted portion. For a more precise editing, tap and hold the video to expand the timeline bar.
Tap done in the Photos app, to save the trimmed clip. Tap save video to save the trimmed clip or save video as new clip so you can save both versions of the clip.
How Can I Jazz Up My Video?
You have now officially edited a video using your iPhone. But if you’d like to “jazz” it up some, use the iMovie app.
Download iMovie from the App Store and open it.
Then, select start new project. Tap the movie option. Next pick a video to edit.
Scroll the timeline bar to the end where you want to add more video. Click the add media (+) button. Select Video, then tap the T (or text) option. You’ll find a variety of templates and text styles to choose from, each with different font sizes and animations.
Check out each style until you find the one you like. Enter your text and select where the font should go – in a lower corner or across the middle of the screen. Hit save and now you have a video with a text.
If you follow that same step but select video, you can now add more videos to your timeline. This gives you the opportunity to do something incredible.
Video editing is all about your creativity. How creative can you get?