iMovie for Mac - Get iMovie and 5 Best Alternatives on Mac (macOS High Sierra included)

iMovie for Mac is a native video editing software developed by Apple to let you enjoy your videos like never before. You can easily browse your video clips and create Hollywood-style video trailers and stunning 4K movies. With iMovie for iOS, you can also edit videos on your iPhone or iPad and finish them on your Mac.

• iMovie for Mac - general introduction and download instruction
• The best alternative to iMovie for Mac - Mac Video Converter Ultimate
• Other 4 great alternatives to iMovie for Mac

iMovie for Mac - general introduction and download instruction

Key features of iMovie for Mac

• • Offer dozens of animated titles and credits, 10 creative video filters, extra-special effects and built-in music, sound effects and voiceover recording functions;
• • Support share your creations to social media or sync across devices with iCloud;
• • Provide iOS version to let you edit everywhere with your iOS devices;
• • Support 4K video product editing and exporting easily.

How to download iMovie for Mac

You can easily download iMovie for Mac from Apple official website. If you have a new Mac, iPhone, iPad and iPod touch after 1st Sep. 2013, you can get access to iMovie without extract cost. The latest version of iMovie is iMovie 10 which is compatible for OS X 10.11.2 or later. If your system is older than this, you can first check if your Mac has iMovie already for the old version or you can try to upgrade your system to the latest version to get the new iMovie.

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The best alternative to iMovie for Mac - Mac Video Converter Ultimate

Mac Video Converter Ultimate allows you to download, edit and convert videos including 4K videos on Mac.

Key features:

• • Support editing any video or audio files on Mac;
• • Upscale video resolution, enhance video brightness or contrast and remove video noise;
• • Provide rotating and flipping video tools;
• • Add external subtitle, audio track and multi-audio track to video;

Other 4 great alternatives to iMovie for Mac

No. 2 Alternative to iMovie for Mac - Free Video Editor for Mac

Free Video Editor for Mac is a free video editing software to let you edit various video formats like MP4, MOV, etc. on your Mac.

Features:

• • Allow you to rotate you video to 90 degree or flip video vertically or horizontally;
• • Crop video with optional modes include Pan & Scan, Letterbox, Medium and Full;
• • Clip and join the video and audio file with easy operation;
• • Support 300+ video and audio formats editing and converting.

No. 3 Alternative to iMovie for Mac - Kdenlive

Kdenlive is a free and open-source video editing software for Mac users with supporting all the formats supported by FFmpeg or libav.

Features:

• • Support multi-track editing with one timeline and an unlimited number of video and audio tracks;
• • Editing tools including creating, moving, cropping and deleting video/audio/image clips;
• • Offer a wide range of effects and transitions;
• • Support adding custom effects and transitions.

No. 4 Alternative to iMovie for Mac - Shotcut

Shotcut is free and open-source video editor that makes even advanced editing straightforward and a brilliant tool for novice videographers.

Features:

• • Support many video and audio formats and codec;
• • Offer multi-format timeline like mix and match resolutions and frame rates in a project;
• • Offer fully customizable filters;
• • With clear and well-designed interface.

No. 5 Alternative to iMovie for Mac - VideoLAN Movie Creator

VideoLAN Movie Creator (VLMC) is a non-linear editing software for video creation based on libVLC and running on Mac, Windows and Linux.

Features:

• • Based on the proven VLC framework;
• • Simple to use but with powerful video editing functions;
• • Read everything and can export to most video and audio formats;
• • Completely free without spyware, ads or user tracking.