Five The Best Video Editor For Android Phone Or Tablet
Video editing is an area of surprising weakness in the Android app ecosystem. Video editors have sucked on Android for a long time. But now here are five video editors you can use directly from your Android phone or tablet.
1. KineMaster
If you want something easier to use than PowerDirector but are put off by AndroVid’s lack of polish, try KineMaster. The app comes with a traditional video editing interface, but it also makes adjustments to accommodate the touchscreen and users with less experience. That’s not to say you’re giving up features. KineMaster is about as advanced as Android video editing gets.
You still have your timeline, a preview, and the ability to apply layers of text, mute background noise, and other such tweaks — things are just laid out differently. KineMaster can also hold your hand through adding a title, some effects, and background music if that’s all you’re looking to do.
Here’s the thing: KineMaster is going to cost you. The free version plasters a watermark on everything you make. Removing it and unlocking advanced features requires a subscription that goes for $5 a month or $40 a year. Alternatively, you can pay $6 just once to use the premium features for thirty days. That might be all the time you need to get through your project.
2. Adobe Premiere Clip
Adobe Premiere Clip is kind of the big name when it comes to video editor apps. It has a laundry list of features, including the ability to auto-generate videos using your images and video if you don’t want to do it yourself. If that’s not your thing, you can edit your video manually using a variety of tools, effects, and music. The app boasts that you can use your own music but some users have found this process to be difficult. It does sync and work with Adobe Premiere Pro so you can start a project on one and continue on the next one. It’s worth a shot, especially if you use Adobe Premiere Pro on PC or Mac.
3. AndroVid
AndroVid is more of a toolbox than a formal video editor -- but it's simple to use and does several things well.
nce you open a video in AndroVid, you see a sliding list of options at the top of the screen. (You might not realize that the list slides at first -- this isn't exactly an award-winning user interface -- but if you swipe your finger to the left, you'll find more options awaiting.
The options are fairly self-explanatory and work more or less as you'd expect: A Trim command lets you select a small segment of a video and get rid of the rest, a Split command lets you pick a point in the video at which it'll be spliced into two separate pieces and a Grab command lets you select a single frame of the video to save as a still image.
AndroVid also presents an option for converting a video into an MP3 as well as one for adding a single music track into a clip. The latter isn't terribly useful, though, as there's no way to control where the music starts and stops within the clip or for how long it plays.
If you need to add text onto your video, AndroVid has a tool for that. Once you've selected the tool, all you do is type in your text and then use your finger to determine where on the screen it appears. You can adjust the size and color of the text, but there's no way to create or import a full-screen graphic, and there are no animations or transitions. AndroVid has options for rotating videos and converting them to a different size, format or quality.
4. WeVideo
Mobile processors simply don’t offer the same amount of power that we can find on desktops, so when you’re making edits and exporting files, everything is going to take more time than it would on your PC.
WeVideo says one way to get around this is by doing your video editing in the cloud. Let its remote machines apply changes more quickly than your local hardware could.
The downside of this approach is that you have to wait for video clips to upload before you can get started, and you have to trust your files to someone else’s servers. Then you have to redownload everything when you’re done. If you don’t find this off-putting, then you will be treated to a modern interface that is different from traditional video editors and pretty easy to navigate on a touch screen, even with a complete lack of video editing experience.
5. Funimate
Funimate is one of the surprisingly popular, but not overly powerful video editor apps. It boasts itself as being a great app for making music videos or simple videos out of the stuff you already have on your device. There are 15 video filters that you can play with and the creation process is fairly painless. This isn’t something you’d want to use on a serious video but it’s definitely worth a look if you need something really simple. It’s also entirely free so there’s no harm in checking it out.
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