Wambui Kimani
3 min readMay 31, 2021

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How do you make video edits on your phone?

In the 90s if you wanted to edit a video you had to travel all the way to Hollwood. The only people with the skills were a few lucky elite. But with changing times softwares like Final Cut Pro enabled one to edit videos on a computer at work or even at home. That is if you could afford the software. Technology has chnaged every thing so much so that this video edititng that could only be done in Hollywood at one point can now be done on your phone. At your convenience, whenever, wherever.

So you shot this video on your phone and you have some bits that the camera shook, the lighting wasn’t great or you just dont look as good as you would want. So how do you make sure your video meets the standard? You have a smartphone, right? all you need to then is download an app on your phone that would allow you do your editing on your phone. As easy as that.

Apps you can use for Video editing

Which app should you use then? There are many apps that you can chose from. Very many video editing apps are free and other do most of the work for you. All you need to do is select clips, photos, and soundtrack that you would like to use from your phone’s gallery, assuming that you have already downloaded the ones that you want to use and the app will do the rest. Here are the four best free apps for video editing:

  1. Adobe premiere clip: This is a very simple, easy to use app. That allows the editing process to be so simple. The app gives you two options Automatic or Freeform. Automatic simply generates the video, it syncs the pace of the video that you selected to the soundtrack that you selected. You may chose to change the soundtrack, the order of clips of the pacing in the video. The freeform allows you do so much more. It allows you to apply filters, adjust the volume, adjust the volumes and adjust the volume.
  2. Apple iMovie: iMovie allows you to more edits. When you upload your photos and videos to a virtaul timeline you can easily expand or trim the length of each video scene allowing you to get the effect that you were going for. the app allows you to add cool effects to the videos that help itbring your photos and text to life.
  3. GoPro Splice: This app has very similar capabilities to Apple Imovie with a few extras worth pointing out. You can chosse the color of your video’s background, you can also shorten or lengthen the length of videos, you can adjust the duration of photo animations.
  4. Magisto: This app is very easy to use, it generates fun to watch videos. On the free video you would not be able to do manual edits that can add the extra something to videos that would make them stand out. It might be worth paying a small fee to get the Magito business app.

How do you edit a video on your phone

Here is a simple step by step process for how to edit videos on your phone using Magisto. The process does not vary much with the other apps except if your doing manual edits.

To create a video with the free version, you follow this six-step process:

You go into the app and press the “ make a video’’ button.

You select the clips and photos from your phone galary that you would like to use

Choose from the 25 editing styles the one that would be best fitted for you

Choose a song that can be used a soundtrack

Add a fitting title for the video

Lastly, press the “make a movie” button

You have created a video that you can share that easily!

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