Easy to Use, Inexpensive, No Frills Video Editing
November 14, 2018
Easy to Use, Inexpensive, No Frills Video Editing
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with iMovie
We use iMovie in our Marketing Department to help us create videos quickly. The great thing about iMovie is that it's very user friendly. We often will have someone from another department who wants to make a video quickly, but has no experience with video editing software. iMovie is a wonderful resource for them to use because it takes very little training to use and gets the job done.
- When combining clips of audio or video, all you have to do is drag and drop the content. It's very easy to use.
- You can export your finished video into the most commonly used video formats and resolutions, making it really easy to share your videos with others and online.
- iMovie saves your projects as you work on them, so you can work on multiple projects at once or save the work of several users on one computer.
- iMovie is a very inexpensive option for video editing software, especially when you aren't looking for cinematic results.
- It takes a long time to export videos from iMovie. Depending on the length of the project you're working on, it could take a few hours.
- There are a decent amount of effects and transitions to use, but the customization of them is lacking.
- iMovie is only available for Apple devices. Windows has other options, but if you're used to iMovie and have to switch to a Windows computer, you might miss the user-friendliness that came from iMovie.
- iMovie is a very inexpensive alternative to other video editing software.
- It's very easy to train new users on iMovie, so time is saved there.
- We started a project where we were tasked to create a new 5 minute video every week. We started with little to no knowledge of video editing, but iMovie was so easy to pick up and use that we were able to start filming and putting together videos right away. If we had to learn a more complex program, like Premiere Pro, it would have pushed our timeline back considerably.
iMovie is kind of like Premiere Pro Lite. You can create videos, easily, and export them, but you don't get the fine tuning and control that you get with Premiere Pro. That being said, Premiere Pro is much more expensive, and takes a much longer time to learn. It made more sense to install iMovie on a few computers in the office, and let people work on the simple videos they needed to make, than to install Premiere Pro and hold multiple training sessions for people to use it once or twice.