What is Apple Clips? Video Sharing App That Makes Video Editing Super Easy

Clips, Apple's new standalone app announced recently, creates videos to share to networks like Facebook and Instagram. The app, which will be available for free in the App Store in April, lets users create what Apple calls "immersive" video. Below, we will introduce what Apple Clips is, how it works, some amazing features of it, and how to get it on your iOS devices.

1. How Does Apple Clips Work?

With Apple Clips, you can create multi-clip videos on your iOS devices (iPhone 7s/7s Plus, etc.) without timelines, tracks or any other complicated editing tools. You can shoot live video and photos by pressing a single button. You can add artistic filters, speech bubbles, shapes or emoji to your video. In addition, Apple Clips allows you to add full-screen posters with animated backgrounds and customizable text. The app provides lots of music soundtracks, which can automatically adjust to match the length of the video.

Feature 1. Live Title
If you want to add animated captions and titles to your video, you can use your voice. Captions are created automatically when you speak. It appears on screen perfectly synced with your voice. The app also allows you to mix and match various styles, and tap any title to adjust text and punctuation, or even add inline emoji. Another amazing thing of this feature is that it supports 36 different languages.

Feature 2. Share to Social Media
With the help of Apple Clips, you can combine video clips, photos and music into good-looking videos. Then you can share them with your friends via popular social networks and video websites, including Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo and more. When you share your video to friends via Messenger, the app will suggest who to share based on who appear in the video as well as contacts you shares with most often. When a suggested name is selected, Clips inserts the video right into Messages so it's ready to send with one tap.

Feature 3. Fun Effects
Apple Clips introduces many fun effects to make great-looking, easily sharable videos with just a few taps. Effects contain comic book filters, speech bubbles, shapes and full-screen animated posters. Fun effects including comic book filters, speech bubbles, shapes and full-screen animated posters help bring out the personality in videos made with Clips.

2. How to Get Apple Clips on Your iOS Devices?

According to Apple, Clips will be available on the App Store for free beginning in April, and is compatible with iPhone 5s and later (iPhone 7/7s Plus, etc.), the new 9.7-inch iPad, all iPad Air and iPad Pro models, iPad mini 2 and later, and iPod touch 6th generation. Devices must be running iOS 10.3. You can download Clips from App Store if your phone is supported.