Today’s post showcases a fun and super easy way to create an instant bit of social media fun perfect for Christmas, or the summer holidays here in New Zealand. Grab your iPhone and use iPhone’s Magic Movie. I discovered this when I was short on time and wanted to get a video up online fast.
Create a fast movie on iPhones with this movie magic app function!
- On Android? Try Action Director try Google Play for something simple and similar.
How to Use Apple Magic Movie
- Open iMovie
- Click Start New Project
- Select Magic Movie
- Preview your clips and select the ones you want to use.
- Using your finger, drag your clips into the order you like and click a clip to edit for length if you need to.
- Press ‘Create Magic Movie’ at the bottom of your screen.
- Magic Movie assembles your clips and stills into a short movie. (see Image 2)
- Run your instant movie to see if you like it OR go back and edit some more …..
- To do this, click on the pencil icon on the right to change or remove a clip.
- Run your movie to see if you like it then upload.
After you create a Magic Movie project, you can rearrange the video clips and photos that you initially selected and experiment with different styles, music, text and filter options. You can also edit each video clip individually.
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Editing Your Magic Movie
You have a surprising amount of control over your Magic Movie.
Tap the pencil beside each video clip to access editing options or remove the clip.
Top right on your screen you will see a small sparkly film strip. Tap this to change the presentation of your movie. You will see names like ‘Charm’ ‘Poster’ and ‘Contemporary’ all of which make changes to how your film starts and, if you need it, adds a piece of music, although you can chose your own purchased, or copyright assured music.
I don’t have an iPhone but I know they have stellar photo and video quality and features. Being largely a PC user, iPhone doesn’t translate well – I wish it did! This is great.
I love iMovie…on my laptop! I have not tried it on my iPhone, believe it or not! And was not aware of the Magic Movie feature! I’ll be checking it out. Pinning to share with others in my Shutterbuggin’ file! As always, wonderful tips!
I have never tried iMovie, but it seems simple enough, thanks to your tutorial. I need to give it a try!
Great post I do not have an IPhone – one of the old timers here but am using my camera for videos phew which is helping me
Terrific tip! I must look and see if I can do it with my iPad. Truly genius! Thanks, it will help a lot of folks for certain. I’m sharing with all my pet parents.
I told myself that when I got a smartphone, I’d start taking video.
{crickets}
Thanks for posting this. We shall have to give it a try!
Somehow I had no idea that was even on my phone…iPhone 13…duh…
Looks like a fun program. XO
That’s pretty cool, I sure didn’t know that was an option.
Thanks for the mini tutorial on how to make a mini movie. And now we have two things to learn to do, make a movie and learn to create AI art. We running out of time to make things MOL!
Magic Movie looks awesome. We will definitely give it a try! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us, Marjorie. 🙂