I’ve been having relentless issues with iMovie crashing since January 2025. Tech support has been unhelpful, doing everything they can to prevent any reports from getting to engineering. Terrible job all around.

So sorry to add ANOTHER review, but I forgot to ask, how on EARTH do you change the format from HD to 4K? Thx, .

This App is very hard to use, I would personally recommend: Instagram Edits, Capcut (Capcut is most effective with pro which cost money), or If you’re willing to pay money Adobe Premiere pro.

I used it to transfer tapes from my old camcorder and it worked perfectly.

iMovie used to be pretty good for the beginner movie editor. But, I feel like Apple is pushing this to the wayside and focusing their attention on literally anything else. They haven’t done anything to improve this application and it crashes ALL THE TIME.

I have been using imovie for years to make summary videos of our family trips and it use to be simple and staright to the point but for the last couple years it is a struggle. There is a "gray clip" issue in which your video shows as a gray rectangle as if it cant find the video, but theres not thumbnails or filenail to help you figure out which of the videos it is. When you trim or edit a clip it jumps you back to the start of the project timeline. If your screen lock you are out of luck, you will have to re download ALL the clips AGAIN

It seems to complicated and unappealing for a tech novice, and too limited for a professional. I don’t edit videos often, so from time to time I’ll try iMovie, but always end up having to use another editor, because it’s too limited. And there are also better options for simple video editing.

My best friend, Vihaan absolutely loves iMovie, he would never say that wevideo is better, he used iMovie to make racing videos

The framework for managing media deviates from Finder. This requires a learning a new file data management system specific to iMovie. Concise help is difficult to find.

Someday I may upgrade to FCP but for me and my usage, iMovie does a phenomenal job.