Apple has introduced Clips, a new video app that allow users to create short videos, by adding photos, filters, music. It takes cues from Snapchat, Instagram and Prisma and lets you make vibrant and creative videos that can be shared with friends the Messages app or popular social networks.
Available for iPhone and iPad, Clips also introduces Live Titles feature that allows users to create animated captions and titles using just their voice. Also present are features like comic book filters, speech bubbles, shapes and full-screen animated posters. Clips lets users create multi-clip videos on iPhone or iPad without timelines, tracks or complicated editing tools. You will have to simply touch and hold a single button to shoot live video and photos, or add them from the Photo Library. Once the video is ready, you can add artistic filters, speech bubbles, shapes or emoji. Users can also add full-screen posters with animated backgrounds and customizable text. You can choose from dozens of music soundtracks that will automatically adjust to match the length of a video Clips.
With Live Titles in Clips, users can add animated captions and titles using just their voice. Captions are generated automatically as a user speaks, and appear on screen perfectly synced with the user’s voice. Users can mix and match different styles, and tap any title to adjust text and punctuation, or even add inline emoji. Live Titles supports 36 different languages.
Susan Prescott, Apple’s vice president of Apps Product Marketing said,
Clips gives iPhone and iPad users a new way to express themselves through video, and it’s incredibly easy to use. The effects, filters and amazing new Live Titles we’ve designed for Clips let anyone make great-looking, easily sharable videos with just a few taps.
The Clips app is not yet available but will launch on the App Store in April for free. It will be available on the following devices running iOS 10.3 or later.