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Turn any footage into a masterpiece worthy of showing at Sundance
FiLMiC Pro $9.99 filmicpro.com
This is the best video recording app on iPhone – it’s that simple. It offers useful manual controls to get the look you want, as well as helpful visual overlays such as video histograms and audio levels, so you get a better feel for what you’re capturing. You can easily set and lock the focus, exposure, and white balance, so you get consistent shots. Even better is that you can customize the recording format; there are various resolutions up to 4K, frame rates from cinema-standard 24fps to slow-motion 240fps, and capture rates up to 50Mbps.
Vont Free vont.phon.to
Don’t like iMovie’s options for adding titles to a movie? This app gives you plenty more control over color, font style, shadows and similar effects, plus transitions. You can create multiple text elements, which can be controlled individually, and combined into one video to produce elaborate sequences.
iMovie $4.99 apple.com
Once you’ve recorded, prepared, and tweaked your clips, there’s no easier way to build a project than in iMovie, which is free with new iOS devices. You can grab clips from your device’s storage (or iCloud), quickly trim and build them into sequences, add sound effects and a soundtrack, add a theme, and make something really slick on the go. It even includes precision editing and image-layering tools.
VideoGrade $5.99 flainezapps.com
Give your video a new look, prostyle, with this color-grading app – whether that’s a noir-ish tint or a cheerful, summery orange haze. You can also use this app to improve video quality, with sharpening, brightening, and white balance correction among other tools. It also boasts analog filters and individual colorchannel control.
Flow Speed Control Free flowspeed control.com
Recorded a cool slo-mo video, but frustrated by how iMovie and others only let you change its speed abruptly? Flow gives you more control, so you can gradually go from full speed down to the slowest… and then maybe halfspeed for a while, or even double-speed, all in one video! This app gives you ultimate control over slo-mo footage.