Best Free Video Editor available

Edit: Ive run into the same issues a couple times now. iMovie projects become corrupted, affecting either video or audio.

*Audio will shift, and doesnt line up with video. With detached audio, I can see that the audio clips have been moved in the project. With audio embedded in the video, it will playback fine in the app, but shifts the audio after exporting.

*Video issue: iMovie will add a second or two of blackness to the end of every photo and every video in a project. A project that was 4:07 once corrupted became 4:50, with the added black. A project that was about 16:00 became 18:30.

Im an ESL teacher, and I use this app several times a week to make educational videos with my students. Ive tried a lot of the other free video editing apps, and nothing else compares to the video and audio editing capabilities.

Easy to use: after a short demonstration, my students are able to sequence video clips and photos, and record voice-overs, add other audio elements (like music, sound effects), and make style adjustments (filters, transitions). For me, I always prefer this over the desktop version (for its ease of use.)

Integrated: I can share to iMovie from all my photo and audio editing apps.

Bugs: Auto-Correct has a few mistakes when using text effects in iMovie. I’ve been using this app since about 2015 when I had an iPhone 5, and there has been the same bug with adding text over photos/videos. For example, type the word “go,” and auto-correct identifies the “o” as a mistake, and changes the o to an i, spelling “gi.” There’s a quick-fix solution (turning off auto-correct in iPhone’s settings), but I’d rather iMovie fix the bug.

Requests: more default settings options. The default for photos is always a dissolve transition (at 1 second), a duration of 6.8 seconds, and Ken Burns enabled (with the start and end position applied randomly). With photos I intend to use in iMovie, I always crop to 16:9 so the complete image will be displayed, and almost never use the Ken Burns effect. If I’m making a short animation from 30-40 photos, this means I need to manually adjust the duration of 30-40 photos (to 0.4 seconds), disable Ken Burns for 30-40 photos, pinch to zoom out on 30-40 photos, and remove 29-39 transitions. I’d like to be able to choose a default duration time, a default transition, and choose whether or not I want Ken Burns enabled.

Make iMovie.mobile projects compatible with iMovie for Mac. Please! What makes iMovie iOS so great is having a compact version of a professional grade movie editor. But without the ability to finish and fine-tune my projects on my Mac, my videos are never fully polished. iMovie iOS hasn’t updated transitions, filters, text effects, sound effects, or themes for as long as I’ve been using the app (about 4 years). This wouldn’t matter at all to me if I could share my projects to my MacBook, make those style changes, and make light & color enhancements in the desktop version. (I would never expect a mobile app to have all the features/capabilities of a desktop program.)

Oso-Malo about iMovie, v2.2.3