With mobile phones, in addition to photos, you can also make videos by recording live as if you were using a video camera. The convenience of the smartphone is that it is always ready to capture a funny moment that happens around only that, until not long ago, making videos with the smartphone was little fun because, except Youtube, there were not many ways to share them with friends.
Now, however, new applications have been created to make videos, correct them and share them quickly including Instagram, to make videos for 15 seconds and also share them on Facebook and Vine to shoot videos of loop-mounted shots .
But if you want to do more, to edit videos shot with your smartphone in very advanced ways, create video montages and to share movies in other ways you can install some free applications available for Android and iPhone smartphones with which to create fun clips with a beautiful background soundtrack and innovative special effects .
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- Adobe Premiere, the best video editor, is free on Android, iPhone and iPad and described in another article.
- KineMaster - Video Editor is one of the best video editors for Android and iPhone mobiles to change color, saturation, brightness and also to add 3D transition effects. There are many themes to choose from and visual effects, but to remove the application icon from the edited videos you need to pay for the full version. With KineMaster you can work on multiple levels and add effects, crop clips frame by frame, optimize lighting, add audio and much more. It really is the most complete video editor and more like a PC program. Of course, this type of power and versatility is not provided for free, but with a subscription.
- Powerdirector for Android is the version of the same PC program of Cyberlink, free, with a timeline and advanced video editing options, many transition effects, filters and the possibility of creating 1080p movies (but requires the complete purchase of the app ). You can also share the videos on Facebook or YouTube. The app is simpler than Powerdirector but equally powerful for recording videos and editing them. You can crop and merge videos, add audio, add slow motion effects and much more, all in a very intuitive drag-and-drop interface. Unfortunately, full access to features is paid for with a subscription.
- ActionDirector, also from Cyberlink for Android, allows you to record and edit videos, apply effects and share with friends on social media.
- Quik for Android and iPhone is the best app to create photo videos with music and writing, also awarded by many rankings, also because it is completely free, without limits and advertising. This easy-to-use tool allows you to create personalized videos with photos and music where you only need to select photos and videos from the film or albums, choose a music, add writings, cut out parts and above all select the editing style.
- YouCam Video (Android) is the best app for improving videos, with effects, filters, text and much more. You can also join two or more photos to create a movie with music and automatic effects. The interface of the app is very easy to use, suitable for everyone.
- Androvid is one of the best apps for cutting and splitting videos and editing audio on Android .
- inShot is another app for Android and iPhone that is great for cutting and editing video and audio files, which works like a videomaker to improve the quality of a video. It therefore includes countless filters and effects, speed controls, a video format converter and an audio editor.
- Videoshop for Android and iPhone is a fun app, perfect for people who want to create social content to share on Facebook or Instagram. There are many audio effects, including animal noise, farts, explosions and laughter. There is also a stop motion tool, support for video presentations, music,
functionality for cropping, slow motion, fast movement, voiceovers and reverse playback. - Enlight Videoleap (iPhone only) has been named the best application of 2017 by Apple for its ability to manipulate videos with powerful tools that can be used simply and intuitively. You can mix videos and images, create overlaps of filters and effects, add text, transitions and music with the final result of a full-fledged cinematic video.
- WeVideo is one of the best web apps to edit online videos which also provides a complete Android app and an app for iPhone and iPad which only serves to upload videos to be edited later on the site. The application on Android allows you to edit the video on your mobile phone using its very simple interface. You can choose from a variety of themes, add an audio file and then publish the video on the public or private WeVideo site. WeVideo guarantees that the video remains in the cloud server so that it can be further edited using the PC.
- Video Editor - video effects, video editing is an inShot-only Android app, awarded in 2019 among the best applications of the year. It is a fairly simple video editor, which has the particularity of having artistic Glitch effects that have a great yield to make any movie special.
- Magisto is an application for Android and iPhone, free (although with some limitations in the free version), which I have already talked about in the past because it is also available as a web application. In practice Magisto is used to create mini music clips by taking the best scenes of a video automatically. You then take a video already recorded, even long, and how Magisto transforms it into a smaller clip mounted artfully and with background music. Magisto does it all by itself and allows you to edit several videos and photos together by merging them together. The limit of the free version is that videos cannot be saved and there is a maximum length limit.
- Animoto is the app for Android and iPhone derived from the homonymous web app celebrated in recent years for its cinematrographic quality. It is a fully automatic app that mounts videos and photos together in one clip, with background music and transition effects.
- VideoShow: Android and iPhone video editor is an exceptional app that mounts videos and photos, with many editing tools, effects, music, to create a professional video clip in a very simple and powerful way. You can add things like stickers, subtitles, filters, our voice, transition effects, GIFs, a kiss, falling petals, bubbles, falling stars, thunder, snow and much more to videos.
- In Google Photos you can create and edit videos and movies in a simple way even with music added from the collection of personal songs.
- Action Movie FX (iPhone only with 6 effects to customize and edit videos taken directly from Hollywood studios.
- VivaVideo: Free Video Editor is an Android and iPhone app that can also shoot videos with the camera and add themes, video effects, titles and transitions. It can also be used with effects such as slow motion, slow-motion, fast-motion, music videos and FX.
- Filmora GO Video Editor is an app for Android and iPhone is an app different from the others, with unique effects to add to videos and then also picture-in-picture editing tools, overlays, voiceovers, slow motion, titles and much more.
- FXGuru is a magnificent and free application for Android and iPhone that allows you to edit recorded videos with science fiction cinema effects. You can add missile attacks, the arrival of UFOs, flamethrowers, explosions and other effects worthy of the best Michael Bay films. The application also has powerful tools to shoot the perfect video and lets you add various effects in a very simple way.
- Game Your Video is an iPhone application that transforms videos into extravagant games, audio transforms, filters, captions and writings and the ability to cut and join clips or split videos with a split screen. It also allows you to edit multiple videos together. With this app it is also possible to apply the effects during video playback, live live during recording.
- Cute CUT is an iOS-only app that allows you to "draw" on a video to customize your movies with effects, textures, shadows and edges.
- Karaoke app to make music videos on iPhone and Android, listed on a high page.
- Video Editor Videorama, iPhone only, allows you to rotate videos, to use editing tools to add text, photos, music and filters, to duplicate videos and add different transition effects.
- Vidstitch is a free app for Android and iPhone (less than 1 Euro) that serves to create a video by combining photos, music and videos into a single customizable collage and to share on Instagram with ease.
- VideoCollage (iPhone and Android) allows you to create video collages to watch together at the same time.
- YouCut is an Android app similar to Windows Movie Maker, where you can create videos using photos and music. In addition to this you can also join videos together, cut them, apply transition effects.
- Clipper (iPhone only) is a quick and easy video editor to quickly edit a movie, merge several videos, apply filters or music in the background.
- Splice is a powerful, easy-to-use application to edit videos from an Android smartphone or iPhone with cropping and video and photo editing functions, it can adjust the speed of movies, add soundtracks, transition effects and you can also record your own voice to put it like that of a narrator on a video. Splice is free for iPhone.
- Funimate, free for Android and iPhone, is a fun video editing app to create short and engaging posts on social media (Instagram and Facebook) to share with friends and followers. There are over 15 filters, 100 advanced video effects and a huge music library.
- Timbre, for Android, is a simple and intuitive video editing app to perform certain actions easily and quickly. You can then cut video and audio, convert videos, merge them, divide them, extract audio from videos, create GIFs and other things.
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