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Nowadays, more and more people long to create Hollywood-style trailers and share them with thousand of people online and get dozens of fans. And video edit is not any more limited to PC or Mac, people can go anywhere, and mobile video editing apps follow, like iMovie. This app could be installed in your iPhone, and offers you all-round video editing functions. And this article will show you how to use it via your iPhone, and some similar apps to iMovies if you want some changes, moreover, we provided some solutions to the problems that may occurred during the video editing process.

Part 1. How to Use iMovie on iPhone

Making videos with iMovies on the iPhone is a very simple task, which can be handled even by novices. Before you make a video, first check the video storage available in your iPhone. You do not want all your hard work to be erased due to no storage. Follow the steps below to create a video with iMovie in your iPhone:

1. Tap the + button and go to the video time line and other tools.

2. Click on the media library button, which will bring up all the video clips on the camera roll. Select the clips you want to have on your video. You can add more than one clip, for better effects.

3. Splice the clip by moving the red timeline marker to where you want to splice the clip.

4. A dissolve transition will immediately appear to where you have made the edit.

5. Next choose one of the eight themes available to work with. Each theme has its own background music, title and transition style.

Part 2. Top 5 iMovie Alternatives

1: ReelDirector

Price: $1,99

Who ever said that apps for iPhone had to be expensive in order to be great? Well, this video editor is here to prove them wrong. For only $1,99 you will have a powerful tool that gives great results. It does not matter if you want to add some text to your video or go pro by splitting it in three and adding different transitions for each piece; whatever you want you can do it easily here and the best of it, you can always get your resulting video in HD.

2. Splice

Price: Free/$3.99

Splice allows you to edit your video clips and photos by drop and drag feature. In Splice Stire, you can find a variety of editing functions like sound effects, music tracks, and borders with which you can enhance your movies. It can add music from iTunes or other music sources for editing and affix visual effects like slow motion and fast forward. With Splice, you can both edit and enhance to create professional movies.

3: Loopster

Price: $2,99

If you do not know how to go easy, then go Loopster. Yes, go back to basics but do not expect a basic outcome. There is no need to lower your expectations just because you find an application that is easy to use. With Loopster and $2,99 you can edit your videos and turn them into HD. But, where are the basics? Dig in. You will find options for rotation, trimming, cropping, add text and transitions and a lot more. In fact, you can even record both video and audio and once you have finished, you can go straight to sharing. Could it get any easier?

4. VideoFX Live

Price: Free

VideoFX Live can handle all types of videos including Vlogs, stop motion videos, birthday videos and BFF tags, aiming at creating the funniest video. You can directly upload your finish movies to Facebook and YouTube. It is one of the easiest and funniest ways for you to edit and create movies on the go.

5. Magisto

Price: Free

Magisto is an easy-to-use editing app for you to turn your videos and phones into great movies and share your piece with friends and family.

You can use Magisto to perform actions like trim, and edits; share via Facebook, Twiter, Email, Instragram and YouTube; record video with Magisto smart camera; add music from iPhone, etc.

Part 3. Solve iMovie Keeps Crashing on iPhone and Other Issues

For many iMovie lovers, you may meet some various issues when edit video on iMovie. Some people complainted that iMovie always keeps crashing on iPhone, Mac, iPad. Or your source video can not be imported in iMovie, or the final render file is very large or you fail to upload them to Youtube or other video sharing website due to video formats incompatibility issues, or some video sharing communities has limitation to uploaded videos. I believe that there are still many other problems for you. So to solve all those problems, I highly recommend you a third-part software which can solve all the issues for you – Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac | Wins. Below is the screenshot for you to make reference.

You can use this ultimate alternative to help you convert that source video to iMovie native video format – MOV. Moreover, this program allows you to import DVD, BD, 4K, 3D BD, alomst any video to this program and output "Apple InterMediate Code (AIC)(*.mov)" for editing in iMovie on iPhone. So you don’t need to worry about video incompatibility issues.

It offers you hunderds of optimized device presets, so you need not adjust vdieo parameters by your own. You can choose the best output formats according to your target devices.

As we all know, Youtube or other apps has strict limits on the video uploaded. If your render is too large to Youtube, but you refuse to cut your video, you can use this program to downscale the vdieo.

Click the "Settings" on the UI, you will see a window named "Profile Settings", here you can reduce video size by changing video size(resolution) or bit rate. Normally, video size is based more on bit rate than video resolution.

Finally, after all settings are done, go to main UI and wait for a while, click the "Open", it will pop up a folder with generated video file. Now you can transfer the video to Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, or other video sharing website.