$4.99 on the App Store
iMovie brings movie making to the mobile realm. Easily edit clips and add photos and sound effects. Built in themes add a quick, customized touch to each and every one of your homemade cinema films.
Launch the app, and you are taken to a screen with "iMovie" in neon lights and scrolling posters of your projects (shown above, center). Start a new project and iMovie takes videos and other media and presents them to you to allow you to easily select which clips to use. Combine clips, photos and audio into a pre-defined theme and you've made yourself a high quality homemade video. iMovie comes with hundreds of sound effects and background music pieces and also allows you to use your own sounds. Record voiceovers, and take videos and pictures straight from the app. Drag, switch and arrange clips and audio in the interactive timeline that takes up the bottom half of the screen (below).
iMovie for iPad 2 can process video faster than a Mac due to the optimized movie format that all Apple cameras use. However, this lends itself to one grave limitation. You can only edit clips shot with an iPad 2, iPhone or iPod Touch (4th generation). One way to easily convert video imported from a camera is to navigate to the video in the Photos app, then select the video (make sure you are in the albums tab). A timeline of the video should be displayed near the top of the screen. Two accompanying grips should appear on either side of the timeline that turn yellow on pressing them. Moving these grips allows you to trim the video. Trimming videos somehow changes format to somethng iMovie will recognize. However, this will not work for all cameras. iMovie shows great potential but is currently limited in recognizing movie formats and frustratingly requires the user to figure out workarounds. This issue, however, may not bother those who are content with their crappy iPad 2 camera, or their slightly more competent iPhone camera. Hopefully, this will be addressed in a future update. Unfortunately, the handicapped iMovie still seems to be the best video editor available on the App Store.
Final Verdict: 6/10
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