Pixelmator Pro 3.2 for Mac Introduces Video Editing Support

[Tagbert]

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

I'd recommend getting both Pixelmator and Affinity Photo/Designer. There is overlap but not 100% and they have different approaches and strength and weaknesses. Affinity's interaction model is closer to Adobe if you are coming from that suite. Pixelmator has some unusual features like this. I use both when needed.

 

[4743913]

You can use the Mac app on your iPad Pro!

I am talking about the video editing.

 

[funwithstuff]

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

If you work with Motion, Pixelmator Pro has the unique ability to export direct to Motion projects while keeping all elements (text, vector, bitmaps, masks and even some effects) editable. Hands down the best way to animate complex vector or mixed art.

 

[jphall]

I am talking about the video editing.

Turns out I was too. Did some quick tests with some video clips in the Mac app with the document moved to my iPad Pro and I was able to use the Pencil to trim the video, Repair to remove a few elements from the video (a title video that mostly acts as a still image), and then export it as a web video to a folder in my Mac video file storage.

I'll still be using Final Cut Pro for my actual editing, but PM does have at least a rudimentary video editing capability, and the video can be moved onto the iPad's display to use the Pencil.

 

[Telemakhos]

Full scale editing like say Resolve?

No. There's no timeline and, as far as I can tell, no way to make edits to individual frames of an animated .gif. Export seems to be limited to .mp4. Without a timeline or the ability to edit frames, you end up making a change to all frames of a clip, like overlaying text on all frames in the same place, or cropping or altering colors or overlaying part of the picture throughout the entire clip. So, it's good for making short meme clips with a single message, but even tiktok's video editor would be better at anything involving multiple text messages within one clip. I'm not even sure I understand what the point of being able to edit a clip in this way is, except that it allows for manipulation of Apple's "live photos," not that I ever understood their point either.

 

[chadbillington]

Since I cannot make a square video or crop a video in iMovie or Quicktime, this is a welcome simple tool I'll be using. Wasn't expecting that at all.

 

[svish]

Great to see video editing capabilities in the new update.

 

[_Spinn_]

Very cool! This is a surprising update for a photo editor.

 

[alanvitek]

Decided to make the purchase. Just starting to dig in to it.

The animated gif export feature works, but has essentially no toggles/knobs for settings. What you see is what you get. The ability to crop and edit footage is nice but I’m hoping for a little bit more control in the future. Compression is pretty good though! Where photoshop was giving me files sizes around 10-20mb, pixelmator was about 7mb.

My use case is pretty niche though. The rest of the product seems really nice and is super speedy

 

[miscend]

Can you do simple text animations with this?