You will add the entire video clip, but after it has been added to the timeline, you can edit it. The Movie template is more flexible and lets you determine the length of your clips and how they are arranged.

A trailer is fun for quick project that you want to look like a Hollywood movie trailer, but you'll likely use the Movie template more often. A trailer follows a very rigid template that features a predetermined order of scenes and transitions.

Next, you will need to choose either Movie or Trailer. To begin, you will need to create a new project by opening the iMovie app and tap the big '+' button on the Projects page. With my preamble out of the way, let's jump in and get started. IMovie for iOS can also be used on an iPad, of course, but since I don't shoot videos with my iPad, I will focus here on using iMovie on an iPhone. I can do everything right on my iPhone, where my videos reside, from quickly adding and arranging clips to sharing my videos via Vimeo, YouTube or elsewhere. I like iMovie for iOS merely for the fact that it saves me from having to transfer videos from my iPhone to my Mac. But for the rest of us who want to throw a few clips together, add some effects and share our creation, iMovie for iOS is more than enough. The mobile app offers a stripped-down feature set than that of the Mac app, so if you are a serious iMovie filmmaker, you may bemoan some of the features that iMovie lacks on the iPhone. IMovie for iOS has been around since the iPhone 4, but it wasn't until the iPhone 6S with its larger screen and speedy performance that I stopped using iMovie on my Mac and started using iMovie on my iPhone.

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