I’ve been giving Magisto a go. It’s an AI-based video editing software for iOS and Android.
Whenever I’m on family trips, I film parts of the journey with the intention of making a small highlights reel.
Unfortunately, the highlights reel never happens. For all my good intentions, the friction of after-the-fact editing on a computer is just too much.
So I went hunting for a very specific type of software: one that would automatically select the best parts of my footage, stitch them together with music, and produce a small highlights reel with minimal effort.
The important thing with Magisto is providing it with high quality input video. No amount of AI is going to make bad clips better.
Magisto really shines when it is fed short-ish clips with significant movement or audio; it really feels like it can sense the right moments to put into the final video. I also like the feature to limit the final output’s length. This forces the software to be more discerning with its clip selection.
The cool thing is that instead of a random collection of clips sitting in my Google Photos, I can now have a highlights reel in less than 10 mins! That’s useful.