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The best Clipchamp alternatives
Not everyone is a fan of Microsoft. If you're looking for a Clipchamp alternative, we've got you covered
There are many online video editing tools, and Clipchamp is among the best. Microsoft bought the Australian company in late 2021, and the service became part of Windows. While it is available as an app and works great even on the best budget Android phones, not everyone will be thrilled with the new Microsoft experience. There are alternatives to Clipchamp for desktop and mobile devices.
How to make green screen videos in Microsoft Clipchamp
Create professional videos with a green screen effect in Clipchamp
Whether it's movies, advertising, fashion, sports, or news, green screens play a role in adding visuals and special effects during video editing. You don't need to be a skilled video editor or have access to professional apps to create mesmerizing videos. Windows 11's default video editor, Clipchamp, makes green screen videos in no time.
12 best video editing apps on Android in 2024
Creating mesmerizing videos on Android doesn't require pro skills
Short-form videos such as Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and TikTok Stories have taken social media by storm. While all of these social media apps solid editing features baked in, our favorite dedicated video editing apps are more versatile and you don't have to share them online.
Android tablets and smartphones combine video recording and other functionality on one hardware. Capturing moments takes minutes, and shooting excess footage isn't beyond the possibilities. Other times, you download videos from Facebook or the web containing irrelevant scenes. Trimming and cutting removes them and optimizes your video so that it doesn't consume storage.
The best Chromebook photo and video editing apps
There are some great photo and video editing tools available on Chromebooks
For a long time, Chromebooks were seen as little more than a glorified web browser, but times have changed. Chromebooks can do many of the things a traditional Windows or Mac laptops can do, including resource-intensive tasks like photo and video editing. Whether you buy one of the best Chromebooks on the market, or you opt for a budget model, you'll have no problem finding photo and video editing apps.
GIFs are animated images. You could say they're a hybrid of videos and photos. You may have sent or received a couple of them while texting on social media. They're one way to spice up conversations and be more expressive when stickers or emojis don't have the energy you want. However, some social apps and media players don't support them. On Instagram, you can only post animated GIFs in comment sections. The best way to work around this setback is to convert them to a video format.
You'll find the best Android phones are flexible with their image editing software, allowing users to take advantage of cutting-edge, high-definition cameras to capture the world around them with excellent clarity and superior quality. This also extends to videos, which can be challenging to edit, unlike images that are a single frame.
LumaFusion now available to all aspiring Android and ChromeOS video editors
Chromebook users can snag an early bird discount
While there’s no dearth of the best photo editing apps for Android, the same can’t be said about professional video editing software. But the arrival of LumaFusion for Android and ChromeOS has changed things significantly. The popular app's conversion from iOS faced significant delays, but customers were treated to an early access beta late last year. Now, it seems the app has been made good enough for the company to let everyone give it a try through the Google Play Store.
While Google Photos comes baked in on most Androids, some manufacturers like Samsung offer their own gallery apps in addition to the stock photo gallery and editing app. And if you need something more robust than Google and Samsung offers, there are plenty of third-party apps in the Google Play Store.
Boost your video-editing creativity on the go with Wondershare Filmora 12
This article is sponsored by Wondershare
No matter how creative your mind is, you still need to have the right tools to get the job done, no matter what that job is. When it comes to content creators, freelance video editors, influencers, YouTubers, and so on, the quality of the videos they put out is essential to how they are perceived, how they are paid, and how successful they are overall.
How to convert MOV files to MP4, the TinyWow way
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MOV files, the longtime video format of choice for Apple products, have their benefits. They can contain a multitude of tracks, separating video, audio, and text, making them a convenient option for editors. YouTube and other popular video sites accept them, and while predominantly associated with Macs and iPhones, are compatible with Windows.
Google's Area 120 wants to make it easy to dub videos into new languages
Easy as uno, dos, tres, catorce
Depending on your language skills, some online videos — no matter how educational — might be rendered useless to you if you can't understand them. With an intriguing new feature developed by Area 120, Google's experimental lab, that could change in a big way. It's working on a tool that the company says will make adding audio in a different language from the original as simple as typing the translation in a document.
The best mobile video editing app is coming to Android, with a little help from Samsung
Arriving on the Galaxy Store in the first half of 2022
Today is Samsung day, with tons of announcements covering phones and tablets alike, including the upcoming Galaxy Tab S8, S8+, and S8 Ultra. That's three tablets, and why release a bunch of tablets unless you're going to offer some apps that can take advantage of these large screens? Well, Samsung is no fool, and so the company has announced that the popular iOS multitrack video editor LumaFusion will find its way to the Galaxy Store in the first half of 2022, though the exact timing is still up in the air.
TikTok introduces new Stitch tool for video mash-ups
An easy way to make reaction vids without using Duet
As the corporate fate of social video platform TikTok remains hazy, the technical side has been going about business as usual and is out with a new if basic feature: users are now able to stitch parts of others' video into their own remix post.
OnePlus Gallery app lost the ability to edit slow motion videos, but a fix is coming
You can roll back to an earlier version as a workaround in the meantime
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OnePlus added video editing features to its built-in Gallery app back in 2018, and that included the ability to edit slow-motion video. But, in a change which slid under most people's radar, the ability to edit slow-motion video was pulled from the OnePlus Gallery app last month. Don't grab your pitchforks just yet though, because it sounds like the feature should make a quick return.
Google Photos will let you remove audio from videos on your phone
Because there are times when sound doesn't matter
Sometimes pictures aren't enough to capture a moment, and videos are best to record a scene. However, we don't always want the surrounding sound to be captured, especially if it's just unnecessary noise. Unfortunately, it's not necessarily convenient to remove the audio track from a video with your phone, but Google seems to be working on making this a breeze.
Many of Google's recent products place their focus on mobile, which often comes to the detriment of the desktop experience. Google Photos has been plagued by that problem—after bringing an improved movie editor to Android and iOS, Google left the Photos web client without any editor at all. However, Google just added editing capability to the web interface, bringing its features more in line with those of mobile.
Adobe Premiere Rush for Android was launched just two months ago, giving people an instantly popular option for editing video without lugging along a laptop. However, as you would expect from most apps when they first launch, Rush lacked some of the desirable features found in some mobile editors and most desktop editors. Today's update will fill in one of the most requested features: Speed adjustments.
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"Run and gun" has become a mantra for many YouTubers and filmmakers these days. It doesn't matter if you're a travel vlogger or directing a short film, you're probably eager to begin cutting together footage on the ride back from the field, not waiting until you're back in the office (or at home). There are plenty of good video editors available for Android, but none of them offer a seamless transition between working on a smartphone or tablet, then moving to a desktop to do finishing work. Today, Adobe is bridging that gap with the launch of Premiere Rush for Android.
DJI's recently-announced Osmo Pocket is a snazzy little stabilized 4K camera — think a GoPro on a gimbal. But one thing that wasn't snazzy was using DJI's GO app to edit video. Thankfully for anyone that picked one up, the company has just released a new DJI Mimo app specifically for editing and viewing content recorded on the Osmo Pocket.