iMovie already helped you create a Hollywood-style movie trailer. Today’s other new feature is storyboards. But it helps you create a Memories-like video and start editing from there. If you often watch Memories in the Photos app and keep thinking “I wish I could edit that auto-generated video,” iMovie doesn’t let you edit those Memories. With Magic Movies, Apple is essentially giving you more flexibility to create a movie based on your media library. iMovie lets you add a voice over your video as well.

Users can also pick their own soundtrack from purchased music, GarageBand or any audio file in the Files app. When you switch from one style to another, your video is automatically regenerated. Each style is a package with animations, a soundtrack and transitions. For instance, you can move or delete clips, trim some parts and split a clip into two clips.Īpple has designed 20 different styles so that your Magic Movies don’t all look and sound the same. This is just a starting point as you can still rearrange your movie however you want.

Your video footage is automatically stitched together with transitions, music and titles. iMovie then automatically identifies dialogs, people’s faces, actions and more. You can open an album, select some videos and hit next. When you create a Magic Movie, it opens up the Photos library. But if you’ve never used a video editing app before, starting with a blank canvas can be intimidating.Īpple is adding the ability to create Magic Movies to get started with a new project. With the previous version of iMovie, most people started with a blank project on which you could add your own video footage and photos. It is available as a free download on the App Store for anyone running at least iOS 15.2 or iPadOS 15.2. iMovie 3.0 introduces two new major features - storyboards and Magic Movie. Apple is releasing an iMovie update today for iOS and iPadOS.

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