I’m not sure if that’s because it is, or whether I’ve just spent so much time with it that I know my way around it.įilmora allows you to mute the audio track of a clip without detaching it first. Oddly, I find Filmora just more intuitive to use now too.
Of course, if you’re wanting something you can run on Windows or Mac then iMovie isn’t any good either.
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You can import an MP4 into iMovie by selecting the File->Import menu, but it’s clunky. Both of these use MP4 format for the videos.įilmora X will happily let you drag and drop these formats into your Media Library. I’m using an Android phone and a Panasonic bridge camera to record my videos. One of the biggest, and earliest things you’ll find about using Filmora X instead of iMovie is that Filmora X supports a boatload more video formats than iMovie. Filmora X looks like iMovieīut Filmora X is considerably more powerful than iMovie. Which should tell you something about how this review will actually go ? And it also tells you that Wondershare Filmora X offers a free trial period. Having used it for a couple of hours I then bought it. I wanted something similar to work with on Windows. Nonetheless, having used iMovie in the past to create videos for online use I was familiar with its layout and way of working. Or more likely I would have stuck with iMovie, since it comes free with MacOS.
Ironically, if I had been using the MacBook Pro I probably would have stuck with DaVinci Resolve. Investigations revealed that’s likely because the SP4 didn’t have enough RAM to run it.
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So a Filmora X for Mac review is going to be applicable to Windows tooĭaVinci Resolve crashed pretty much any time I tried to do anything with it on the Surface Pro 4. All of which means this review and how-to is based on my hands on experience.īear in mind as well that Filmora X for Mac is pretty much identical to Filmora X for Windows anyway. Yes, I know, not exactly Mac hardware… However, I did end up finalising everything on the Mac, so this will actually be a Filmora X for Mac review after all. Initially I tried DaVinci Resolve, running on a Surface Pro 4. Unlike MacOS which comes with a free tool to create and edit videos, Windows doesn’t seem to anymore. I recently needed to create, and subsequently edit a video using a Windows system.