Pixelmator Pro 3.2 for Mac Introduces Video Editing Support

[MacRumors]

Pixelmator 3.2 "Lumière" went live on the Mac App Store today, and the latest major update to the popular image editing app brings the ability to edit videos, along with other notable feature additions.

Version 3.2 of the app lets users make quick edits to videos, such as trimming, cropping, and color adjustment, and lets users combine them with text, images, and shapes, apply masks, and more, without leaving Pixelmator Pro.

To make editing easier, the interface now includes on-canvas video controls with which users can play, mute, scrub, and set the poster frame of videos in multi-video compositions.

As part of the support for video editing, the update also comes with support for new video and animated image formats including MP4 and QuickTime Movie, as well as the ability to open and export animated GIFs and PNGs. Videos can be exported with variable quality, adjustable frame rate, and using a range of compression types, including Apple ProRes.

In addition, the update also brings a new category of 4K movie title templates and adds cinematic social media templates designed specifically for creating moving designs.

Users can personalize the templates by changing the placeholder video, choose from alternative elements and colors created for each template individually, and more. Or they can also combine existing still-image templates in Pixelmator Pro with their own videos to create animated social media posts and other designs.

Additional improvements in Pixelmator Pro 3.2 include the ability to open and edit Live Photos as videos, and big improvements to Motion file format support, including the ability to export Motion files with video layers.

Pixelmator Pro 3.2 Lumière is available exclusively from the Mac App Store as a free update for existing users and $19.99 for new customers, 50% off its usual price of $39.99.

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[RKmd]

Easily one of the best one-time Mac App Store purchases. Great job, Pixelmator team!

 

[kirbyrun]

Wow. I did not see this coming! Very cool!

 

[alanvitek]

This is really tempting! I've been working with gifs a lot more recently for sharing dev work, and while photoshop does a decent job, it's a little clunky. Giphy and other online gif creation services lack some finer control. Pixelmator might be worth a pickup for that feature alone.

I've also been eyeing the Affinity apps too. Been debating the jump from Adobe for a while now

 

[TSE]

If I have Final Cut Pro and the full Affinity Suite, would there be any reason to purchase and install Pixelmator Pro?

 

[4743913]

Today I remembered I own Pixelmator Pro.

They should really add this feature to Pixelmator for the iPad "Pros".

 

[coso]

I really love this software, it does some things that neither photoshop can

 

[Mantahoe]

Damn! I love this company and will continue to support them. Way to go!!!!

 

[T Coma]

If I have Final Cut Pro and the full Affinity Suite, would there be any reason to purchase and install Pixelmator Pro?

I’m wondering something similar. Don’t get me wrong, I love me some Pixelmator — been using it for 10(?) years — but is it going to improve what I’m already getting from QuickTime and imovie? ¯\_( ツ)_/¯

That being said, I’ll probably come up with an excuse to get it anyway, based on my positive history with pixelmator & pro.

EDIT:

Doh! I misread that as a $19.99 upgrade, which I was about to justify anyway. I just watched the promo "tutorial" and it looks very slick. It's not quite enough info to indicate whether or not its a sufficient replacement for how I use Quicktime + iMovie, but as it's free to upgrade, I'm about to find out.

 

[blazerunner]

This is how bloat starts. Just make a separate app for video editing.

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

This is a very nice update to this app. Love it

 

[adamw]

A welcome addition. Can Pixelmator Pro make various sizes and types of videos, such as 16:9, 9:16, and 1:1 aspect ratio videos for social media, and be able to easily switch between them, so I can repurpose videos for various social media platforms? If not, I encourage them to add this necessary feature please.

 

[Spock]

This is how bloat starts. Just make a separate app for video editing.

That is what I am afraid will happen.

 

[jonnysods]

Pixelmator and the Affinity lineup are just unbelievable products for the value.

 

[T Coma]

A welcome addition. Can Pixelmator Pro make various sizes and types of videos, such as 16:9, 9:16, and 1:1 aspect ratio videos for social media, and be able to easily switch between them, so I can repurpose videos for various social media platforms? If not, I encourage them to add this necessary feature please.

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "make various sizes," but I just edited a few videos to fit other aspect ratios, both destructively by cropping and by increasing the canvas size (with the blank spaces added in order to not distort the video). I do not see how to stretch/compress the video to another aspect ratio however, if that is what you're after.

Example, I converted the dreaded portrait perspective to a 16:9 format just as easily as converting a photo:

 

[BipedalOS]

Nice, can’t wait to try this even tho I edit very little video.

 

[pers0n]

This is how bloat starts. Just make a separate app for video editing.

Seems like its more about making animated images easier to make. Which is a good thing, I usually have to resort to Adobe Flash/Animate or run a vitual machine with Jasc Animation Shop which was released back in 2000 to get a decent optimized animated gif. I dont like Photoshop's animatin capability.

 

[kingtj1971]

This is how bloat starts. Just make a separate app for video editing.

Hmm.... yeah. Normally I'd agree. But I think in this case, it'll depend on how tightly the video and the still image editing are tied together. I haven't looked at it yet, but if it suddenly changes to a whole new set of menus as soon as you start working with video? Then yeah - would be better as a separate app.

 

[Mazda 3s]

Easily one of the best one-time Mac App Store purchases. Great job, Pixelmator team!

Agreed. I use tThe app everyday and will continue to support this company.

 

[philcourage]

I want to support a developer who doesn't put me on a subscription.

 

[TMRJIJ]

I want to support a developer who doesn't put me on a subscription.

Pixelmator Pro is currently not on a Subscription

This is how bloat starts. Just make a separate app for video editing.

From limited testing, it seems like it's just some light video editing. Mostly for Short Clips, Animated GIFs, and PNGs.

 

[philcourage]

Pixelmator Pro is currently not on a Subscription

I meant it as a good thing, I support a developer who doesn't charge me a subscription.

 

[jphall]

They should really add this feature to Pixelmator for the iPad "Pros".

You can use the Mac app on your iPad Pro!

Open your document on the Mac. In Menu Bar under Window>Move to iPad Pro, you can then see and edit the document on the iPad Pro display. You can use your Apple Pencil, as well as continuing to use your mouse or trackpad on the Mac. And you have the advantages of the Mac exporting options.

There may be intermediate steps to set the iPad display as an option, I’ve been using it this way long enough that I don’t remember if it was automatic or required setting it up to do that.

 

[Gix1k]

Full scale editing like say Resolve?

 

[Black Magic]

Good value @ $19.99 especially considering it's a one time purchase versus Adobe CCC.