Turn your home movie clips into Cannes-worthy mini-epics with a few simple swipes
We hate to break it to you, but nobody wants to watch your 17-minute video of your two-year-old learning to hop. Ditto that nine-minute film of your cat attacking its own reflection. Even the two-minute clip of your drunken friend falling down an escalator is too long.
Cut out the boring bits, add some transitions and give it a soundtrack, though, and it'll be social media gold. So download one of these video editors and get cracking on your very own director's cut version. After all, you've only got another 16-and-a-half minutes to chop out.
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The benchmark video app, iMovie should have a home on every iOS device. For starters it makes it ridiculously easy to splice together footage shot on your iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad, but there's a lot more to it than that.
You can also use it to add titles, music, voiceovers and photos to your work of art - and if you want to cheese it up, you can take your pick from a bunch of TV-style templates and movie trailer themes. Essential.
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Platform: iOS Price: £2.99
Download iMovie here
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While iMovie is great at what it does, it's clearly geared more towards casual use. So if you're looking step it up to the next level, try Pinnacle Studio. This long-established editor - the desktop version has been around since the '90s - adds more complex transitions between clips and some fancy picture-in-picture effects (some are in-app purchases).
You also get control over the placing of captions and titles and you can use imports too. There’s a bit more waiting, though, so work your tea break around the rendering.
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Platform: iOS Price: £8.99
Download Pinnacle Studio here
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There’s nothing to worry iMovie or Pinnacle Studio on Android, but VidTrim works well with single clips from your device or elsewhere. You can trim footage, add music and retro or psychedelic effects and export the result as an MP4. There’s a free version, or you can pay £2.45 to remove the watermark and get 1080p support.
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Platform: Android Price: from £free
Download VidTrim free here / Download VidTrim Pro here
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This shows Windows 8 has the potential to hammer Android and even iOS in the app stakes. It’s a generously featured video editor that works much like iMovie, allowing you to make frame-by-frame edits, join clips up with neat transitions, add titles and soundtracks and export the results as HD movies. Fast, well behaved and powerful.
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Platform: Windows 8 Price: £1.69
Download Movie Edit Touch here
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This video effects program is just amazing. Try it for free but do get the in-app purchases, which turn this from a novelty into a superb tool. It’s rammed with awesome real-time effects that are perfect for DIY music videos or in-yer-face extreme sports. You can even sync devices, shoot the same scene from different angles and fade between the footage.
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Platform: iOS Price: from £free
Download VideoFX Live here
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VideoShow: Video Editor & Maker
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There are some unusually precise editing features available in VideoShow, such as the ability to specify a particular section of a song for a backing track. We also like the freedom you get with the size, style and positioning of titles, and the sprinkling of colour effects. Its one major weakness is that it doesn't have any transitions.
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Platform: Android Price: £free
Download VideoShow: Video Editor & Maker here
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