For example, when you switch back to the iOS app from other applications, it will take you right to the edit screen of your project. Other new features are designed to make iMovie easier to use. These were some of iMovie’s more requested features, in fact, and one of the reasons people went elsewhere for video-editing apps. In terms of new effects, iMovie will now allow users to add photos as overlays to create picture-in-picture and split-screen effects, as well as opt to hide the border on those. Its 80 new soundtracks include genres like pop, chill and sentimental that will automatically adjust to the length of the movie. The green-screen support, in particular, could make iMovie a better competitor to the third-party video editors that tend to offer more advanced feature sets, while also keeping things simple for less-savvy users.Īpple says users of the new version (2.2.7) will be able to remove backgrounds from any clips shot in front of a blue or green screen, as well as adjust the clip with a four-point mask and strength slider.

With the app’s most recent update, iMovie has received a host of new features - most notably, support for a green-screen effect that lets you remove the background from clips, as well as the addition of 80 new soundtracks across a variety of genres. Ahead of the public launch of Apple’s revamped suite of first-party apps on iOS 13, the company has rolled out a new version of its popular video editor, iMovie for iOS.

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