Equip Your iPhone Videos with iMovie

Apple’s own home movie editing app has been around for a while now, and initial reviews weren’t too favourable. A couple of updates later, however, and iMovie seems to have improved as a basic editing tool. It’s not for everyone – if you’re making a music video, feature-length production or documentary style film you will probably want to use a desktop app. For short films and productions though, iMovie is a remarkably fast way of editing together your footage.

The ability to export your project to iMovie for Mac is awesome, allowing you to play around with footage on the go and then pick it up when you get home. There are also a plethora of effects, sound effects, musical scores and the ability to build cinematic trailers from your footage too.(from makeuseof)

Below is a video from YouTube about how to add and edit iMovie Effects with iMovie.Wathch and leran, enjoy it!

Troubleshooting: - Make sure you have NOT checked "optimize video" when importing
- If you are having trouble with the Picture in Picture, check out my response video below
- Ensure your Picture in Picture setting is not set to "fit in frame" PRIOR to inserting your
footage
- If your footage inserts transparent and looks right when you scrub through it, but doesn't play in real time in iMovie, don't worry, it will work fine after export
- The most common issue is that the footage isn't actually pre-keyed
from YouTube