Chapter 7. Edit Video on the iPad

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I look at the title of this chapter and am a little amazed at its implications. Editing video was once something you could do only with a massively expensive infrastructure of equipment. Even as computing power increased (and the cost of software decreased), one still expected to need a high-powered desktop or laptop computer to edit video.

And now here we are, editing high-definition video in real time on a tablet computer. Oh, and using iMovie for iOS, an app that costs just $4.99. iMovie doesn’t give you all the features of a desktop video editor, but still: editing HD video on a tablet.

The future is fun. ...

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