Edit on iPhone – Applications/programs

by

Every season brings a new and/or improved set of tools to the cell phone filmmaker.
I’ve included ten for iPhone users to look at. Every developer creates differences in their interface and information architecture. However, if you learn one program really well (e.g. Photoshop or DaVinci) a lot of the hard work will be done and learning new programs will be easier. Let me know if you have a preference for one program over another or if there is something else you would like to see listed.
— Peter Terezakis

InShot Video Editor

InShot Video Editor

LumaFusion

LumaFusion

Adobe Premiere Rush CC

Adobe Premiere Rush CC

Splice Video Editor

Splice Video Editor

Magisto *Smart* Video Editor

Magisto *Smart* Video Editor

Videoshop - Video Editor

Videoshop – Video Editor

Filmmaker Pro Video Editor

Filmmaker Pro Video Editor

Quik - GoPro Video Editor

Quik – GoPro Video Editor

VivaVideo - Best Video Editor (* they say it’s the "best in their title.")

VivaVideo – Best Video Editor

PHILM

by ⋅ Leave a Comment

While at SxSW I met the developer of a terrific app called PHILM.    It is currently free, shoots stills or 10 second video, has a stack of filters (my favorite is “Warp”), comes with stock tunes (or you can add from your music library), the ability to mix levels between music and recorded background, has “stickers,” edits, and does a few other things.

I also like PHILM because the app redraws the video in real time using graphics processing unit (GPU) within the cell phone; not the central processing unit (CPU) which is usually tasked with all computational heavy lifting.

Mostly though, I like the code because the rendering occurs in real-time and the processed videos remind me of the hallucinogenic Scanner Darkly and neo-noir Sin City.   The extreme like is not all love and rockets:  there are three issues that bother me.

The app is rough on battery life. I’ve taken to bringing an external battery to charge my phone when out as rendering one five segment video (with music) will drain my phone’s battery by 20%.   The app is currently limited to recording ten second video segments and there is a watermark on the lower left.  The recording limit might be lifted once the product is sold.   But…  I would really like to see this technology as a plugin for video editing.