Apple’s free Clips app is a great tool for creating short-form videos, slideshows, school projects, and more. It uses photos and videos in your iPhone or iPad’s Photos app or new videos and photos taken directly with Clips. Here’s a look at how Clips works, its features, and what’s new with Clips version 3.0.
What Is Clips?
If you have an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, download Clips from the App Store and start creating shareable movies, called projects. Clips is easy to use, even for people with no video editing experience. It’s a great way for kids to make creative or school projects. Record videos with the app’s easy-to-use interface, and then add photos and videos from your library. Add filters and animations to your movie, and use your voice to create automatic captions. Add stickers, Memoji, emojis, music, and immersive camera effects. Then, export and send your video to friends and family, or share to Instagram or other social sites. Selfie scenes are one of the app’s most popular features, letting you place yourself in fun scenes and backgrounds. Clips 3.0 added some long-sought-after features to the app, including the ability to record in different aspect ratios (16:9, 4:3, and square) and recording your video in landscape or portrait orientation. New pop-up special effects include arrows, shapes, stickers, and royalty-free music.
How to Record Video in the Clips App
Here’s how to record a video with Clips to create your first project.
How to Take Photos for Your Clips Project
You can also take a photo from within the Clips app and add it to your project.
How to Add Photos and Videos From Your Library
Continue to add videos and photos to your project with the Clips Record feature, or add photos or videos from the Photos app. New videos and photos appear in the timeline after the previous clip. Here’s how to add existing photos and videos from your library.
How to Add a Selfie Scene in Clips
Selfie Scenes are a fun feature that lets you immerse yourself in an animated background or scene from an iconic movie in a 360-degree experience. Here’s how it works.
How to Add Effects to Clips
Clips has tons of fun effects to play with. Some effects can be added to any photo or video clip in your project, while others are for live video recording. Here’s how to add effects to your clips:
How to Play and Manipulate Clips
Here’s how to play, move, duplicate, and delete clips in the Clips app.
