So quite a bit to weave in - feel free to watch in full or skip around on the timeline to get the idea: As usual with my Phones Show style, there's A-roll (footage straight to camera) with stills 'cutaway' to hide most edit points, plus B-roll video and lots of example photos from the phone being reviewed. I'll come to a few tips below, but here's what I ended up with, after about three hours of slightly fiddly touchscreen editing. (Ditto Macs, which is why I switched from PC to Mac for my main desktop ten years ago, by the way, and I can see some people switching to iPhone for similar reasons.)

Buy an iPhone, however old and however second hand, and you have an up to date and fully feature 'pro' video editor baked in. For any budding videographer it's a major plus point in using iOS - the Android world is awash with buggy video editors stuffed with adverts and in-app-purchases (the best of the bunch is possibly PowerDirector, though even that has major issues). Significantly, iMovie is built-in and free forever.

It didn't have to be this particular iPhone either, though the 'Max' sized displays do work quite well for editing and I can't imagine using iMovie or similar on a smaller display! But I figured it was finally time to bite the bullet and try a serious semi-pro video project all using just a phone - for everything.ĭid it have to be an iPhone? Not necessarily, though I do think Apple does video very well across the board - from the highest quality capture to the best editing software (iMovie). Why 'forced'? Because I was stuck looking after my aged dad for a week and had no access to a 'proper' computer (on this occasion).

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