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Apple iMovie includes excellent tools for media organization, color grading, speed, green-screen effects, narration, and soundtrack in your digital movies.

Its not always the first with new format supporttheres still no 360-degree video supportbut it does work with 4K and HEVC.

Since we last updated our review of iMovie, Apple has introduced few major features, but the software can now take advantage of the mouse and touch pad support in iPadOS, as well as the MacBooks Touch Bar.

If you need to get really serious with video editing or to work with many tracks, 360-degree footage, or multicam, consider moving to Final Cut Pro X, which will seem familiar to iMovie users, despite its vastly greater video editing power and feature set.

Its particularly suited to iPhone video shooters who want to make something appealing from their clips and photos.

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SEE ALSO: The Best VPN Deals for September 2020 Getting Started With iMovie If you purchased a Mac on or after October 20, 2010, you can get iMovie for free from the Mac App Store.

Essentially, that means the app is free on nearly all Macs in use.

The latest version requires OS X 10.14.6 or later and weighs in at over 2GB.

In testing for this review, I installed it on a 21.5-inch iMac with a 3.1GHz Core i7 CPU and 16GB RAM and on a MacBook Pro with Touch Bar and a 3.1GHz Core i5 CPU and 8GB RAM.

The latest version has a dark interface (even if you arent using the new Dark Mode in macOS Catalina ) that starts out with two tabs at top center for Media and Projects.

On the left side of the Projects view window is a single huge plus-sign button.

When you click this, you get two choices: New Movie and New Trailer.

The standard three-pane video-editing interface shows up in iMovie, with source content at the top left, preview top right, and the timeline spanning the bottom of the screen.

There are no track divisions as in other editors; instead, you drag clips down to the timeline, where theyll extend to represent their running time.

You only get two video tracks, which is a far cry from the 100-plus allowed by several enthusiast applications.

In an improvement from earlier versions of iMovie, when you click on a clip, the whole thing is selected rather than a range within the clip; the old way could make adding full clips to your timeline dicey.

Theres also a plus-sign button that let you send the clip to the timeline with no dragging required.

Another helpful feature in the iMovie interface is that clips in the source panel show an orange line along the bottom to indicate that theyve been used in your project.

I had no trouble importing any video content I threw at the programGoPro, phone, and even 4K.

HEVC videos and HEIC photos from my iPhone X displayed without a hitch, which is more than you can say for some PC video apps.

You can even import 360-degree content, but the app cant edit the point of view; it simply shows their dual fisheye or equirectangular view.

For organization, you can mark clips or even clip sections as Favorites or Rejects, but there are no ratings, keyword tags, or face or geographical categorization like you get in Adobe Premiere Elements.

Content thats used in your project will show up in the separate Project Media section of the source panel, however.

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