Hands-On With Apple's New 'Clips' Video App

[MacRumors]

Apple today released "Clips," a new app that's designed to make it easy to create short videos that can be easily shared via Messages and social networking apps like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

Clips, as the name suggests, lets you combine several video clips, images, and photos with voice-based titles, music, filters, and graphics to create enhanced videos that are up to an hour in length.

Clips isn't hard to use, but the interface does take a bit of time to get used to, so we went hands-on with the app to show MacRumors readers just how it works.

Click here to read rest of article...

Article Link: Hands-On With Apple's New 'Clips' Video App

 

[M.PaulCezanne]

Nice video guys!

 

[jdillings]

Apple should have included Clippy with Clips

 

[Michaelgtrusa]

The app looks nice.

 

[macjoshua]

Oh, so this is what they have the old Aperture team working on

 

[wolfshades]

This is good news for the 12-year olds out there.

 

[Born Again]

Was excited for a second.

I thought Clippy was back!

 

[macsrcool1234]

first a book, now this. are they just getting drunk and popping pills and then making the first products that come to mind?

 

[zilba25]

How does it handle Live Photos? Does it play them like a short movie or just as a still photo that you can make last as long as you want ?

 

[redmac]

This is good news for the 12-year olds out there.

I am over 40 and I enjoyed playing with it. I may even use it frequently to share videos of my son with the family.

 

[brilliantthings]

What are those favourite congrats at the top of your share sheet at 3:00? How do I get them?

 

[profets]

What are those favourite congrats at the top of your share sheet at 3:00? How do I get them?

Interesting - looks like a custom share sheet they're using with shortcuts to send as message to predefined/favourite contacts. I've been hoping to see something like that in share sheets for a few years now. Hopefully it's a sign that it could be coming in iOS 11.

(screenshot from MacRumor's youtube video)

 

[TMRJIJ]

Was excited for a second.

I thought Clippy was back!

That guy owes me an A+ research paper

 

[routine_analyst]

No dog nose and ears filters.

 

[Damn Dirty Ape]

hmm app store wants me to BUY it for some reason.

 

[upthetoffees]

This is good news for the 12-year olds out there.

Not sure what kind of 12 year olds you are bringing up but my nephews don't have this, too busy reading books.

 

[C DM]

Not sure what kind of 12 year olds you are bringing up but my nephews don't have this, too busy reading books.

Meaning those who aren't busy reading books are somehow "different" (in the negative connotation of that word)?

 

[brilliantthings]

So is that a Mac Rumors or an Apple video?

Interesting - looks like a custom share sheet they're using with shortcuts to send as message to predefined/favourite contacts. I've been hoping to see something like that in share sheets for a few years now. Hopefully it's a sign that it could be coming in iOS 11.

(screenshot from MacRumor's youtube video)

 

[profets]

So is that a Mac Rumors or an Apple video?

It's a screenshot from the MacRumors YouTube video.

 

[kazmac]

Very good.

 

[thomamon]

They need to make it so you can take a photo with it.

 

[GabrielMoro]

Seems like the software team is getting a lot of free time lately.

 

[AJ5790]

Oh, so this is what they have the old Aperture team working on

Actually it was made by the video team.

 

[coolfactor]

What a dumb icon! Can Apple be any more boring with their icon design?

This app is free because .... just like iMessage, they'll be able to monetize this through a "Clips Store" - stickers, effects, etc. - similar to the iMessage Store. Bet the bank on it.
[doublepost=1491530008][/doublepost]

They need to make it so you can take a photo with it.

Take a photo from within the app? You can.

 

[Abazigal]

Interesting - looks like a custom share sheet they're using with shortcuts to send as message to predefined/favourite contacts. I've been hoping to see something like that in share sheets for a few years now. Hopefully it's a sign that it could be coming in iOS 11.

(screenshot from MacRumor's youtube video)

The clips app apparently uses a lot of custom APIs available only to Apple. I can see why they had to do this rather than outsource it to a third party developer.