MovieMator Video Editor Pro App Reviews
Utter rubbish.Spent hours trying to export…all I got was a black screen.This software shouldn’t be on the market and to be honest,it’s not good enough to merit even being free.
Awful. Paid for upgraded/updated version and now the app won’t export my video... gets stuck on 19% every time. I’ve now lost hours and hours of work and wasted £30 as there’s no physical way of exporting it. Absolute con.
Awful. Paid for upgraded/updated version and now the app won’t export my video... gets stuck on 19% every time. I’ve now lost hours and hours of work and wasted £30 as there’s no physical way of exporting it. Absolute con.
very bad app!
not working,crashing all the time,videos playing bad and etc i need my refund!
I love it
I bought it because it looked like the layout was about the same as the one I have used. Well it is and it isn’t. It took some head scratching and manual reading to find tools I desired. Once I found them I liked where they were placed and how they work better than any other editor I have used. Lots of tools I have yet to explore. I prefer to create my own stuff rather than to use templates and this I can easily do with the tools provided. It is precise - splits to the exact frame desired. It’s more stable than most other applications I’ve used. I expected it to crash on a 3 layer video I made full of extremely short clips, transparencies, repositioned clips, etc. No crash. I like the way one can select output for a specific use and that it give enough info to know if the codec selected is MPEG-4 or MP2 etc. It renders faster than my old application and the quality of output is great. I see it’s getting a lot of poor ratings and I can’t find a thing wrong with this little workhorse.
keeps crashing
just puruchased. it keeps creshing; sent the report to Apple Store; I pretend a full refund
Hate it
Don’t waste your money!! It only saves the file as an mmp. I upgrade to pro hoping that there are more options but there isn’t. I go to the help tab and it tells you you can buy a converter. I bought that and that program doesn’t accept mmp files. Someone tell me how I can get my money back!
MovieMater Pro
This application keeps dying. Brings up a screen that indicates problem is being reported to Apple. Not worth the money. If it were free, it still would not be worth anything
Crashes Repeatedly
Have not been able to use it at all since purchase... it crashes immediately at app start. Plus I see that I'm supposed to get some other free for purchasing Pro. Not sure how or where to get that since that app says it costs $9.99.
So Far So Good, but One Question..
Is it okay to delete MovieMator Video Editor FREE once I’ve bought and am using the PRO version? Both of these were downloaded in the Mac App Store. PRO is 260.3 MB and FREE is 253 MB, so I assume it’s okay to delete it, but I want to be sure. Works great, easy to trim and edit.
dont buy
anyway i can return this ?
Gets the job done for its price, a few tweaks away from being a 5 star app
It’s no final-cut pro. But for its price, it allows for an adequate ability of manipulating your videos. Certain aspects of the program could be made more intuitive and tailor-made for a mac user, like when you’re scrolling on the timeline and it zooms in and zooms out or goes a random direction, as opposed to simply scrolling left to right with ease. Also, the undo option should be able to do undo literally anything you do within the program, not just certain actions. I also found when cropping a video size, I pressed Undo and the image returned to its previous size, but the number values didn’t change. It’s also not clear how to add text to your videos. Certain aspects, bugs and general intuitiveness is what keeps this from being a 5 star app. But again for its price it gets the job done, and thank you to the developers. Edit: There are so many bugs, you guys have to go through and fix this thing.
Cannot merge audio with video and create a playable miovie
I can play the audio with the video in the app but I have tried three different export formats and none of them worked. The only one that sort of worked was Lossless MPEG-4. That had both audio and video but the video was pixelated. So much for “lossless”. If I could get my money back, I would.
Very buggy
I bought MovieMatorPro just to do some simple edits on some simple home movie videos. The main issue I have encountered is after making cuts and rearranging clips, the audio track gets completely out of whack with the video. It is as if the audio was uncut while the video was. I had another instance where the program crashed, I restarted, it asked if I would like to load an auto-saved backup, I replied affirmatively, it looked like the video was restored, but when I exported it, the video was anything but what the app showed! This same jumbled video-audio occurred once after I moved a few clips around in the timeline. I had another instance where I had a video recorded at 24 fps, but tried to export it at 30 fps. Again, the resulting video was anything like what the app showed. I figured out on my own that if I exported at the same frame rate as the source, I got my desired result. Otherwise, the app will let you export at the wrong frame rate. It’s pretty clear that the app counts frames, not time, when it exports. Choose the wrong frame rate, and you get garbage out. I think the app should be smart enough to stop me from making such self-infliced errors. Moving clips around gets both audio and video unsynchronized quickly. The last bug I encountered is that the app kills all of the audio on my iMac, but intermittently. I debugged this buy simultaneously running iTunes, a VLC movie, and a YouTube video playig through Firefox, with audio all playing (quite an audio-jumbled mess!). I then launched MovieMatorPro, loaded a video into it, moved the video to the timeline, and made a few splits. As soon as I started making these edits, all sound from all the apps stopped, but MM’s audio still worked. I found that if I changed the app’s window size, I could often make the Mac audio reappear, sometimes not. The sure way to make the Mac’s audio return to normal was to quit the MM app, whereupon all the audio sources returned to normal. As others have pointed out, you are left to your own devices to figure out how to use the app. The on-line User Manual is over 2 years old, does not describe the current version of the app. It is useless. I have been in contact with MM’s support, and while they respond, the time delay is anywhere between 1-7 days, and then we seem to be unable to understand each other (language differences). They try, but nothing gets resolved. For instance, I described this last bug where the iMac’s audio is muted by their app, but their response was “Even though I have also encountered this issue here, I cannot duplicate the bug as you describe it.” My patience has run out. I give up. I have opted instead for MovAVI Movie Editor 15, which is a less feature-rich app than MMPro and a bit more expensive, but a much more polished app that actually works. So far.
Not worth the money
I was using the free Moviemator and it did not let me produce a movie over 5 minutes and export. It was advertised that if I got Moviemator pro then I could export a movie longer than 5 min. I needed this for a video project for school, so i bought the Pro app out of desperation. However, I was still not able to export a movie over 5 min long. I am a grad student and $20 is a lot in my book. Pro was not any better than the free app. - An upset, broke college student
I use it all the time
I have used this app for a few years and really like it. For quick video editing it’s my goto tool. Simple and quick.
Poor Program too complicated
This program did not work for me. I paid $10 and ended up using IMovie, whcih is so much more simple and free. There is not a lot of support for people who are not technology friendly….its too complicated! iMovie is way more easy and explaining things are simple. iMovie is Great!! I feel like I wasted $10 on this program.
Never Worked
I purchased this buy clicking the “upgrade” button in the light version. The project I was working on is not compatible with the the pro version. Now my prject file is corrupt and I have to start from scratch. This app has never worked for me and I was unable to get a refund...
Not user friendly
Used it for to make a video that included short videos, pictures and music. I was very hard to use, difficult to find the tools needed to fix the problems. Simple things like putting in a transition and resetting the length of time a picture played took forever. Then i had a few crashes that made pictures invaild so I had to reload the pictures and try to put in the right place and then redo all the transitions again. Super long process. I finally gave up a few days after purchasing the product. I do not recommend this application. It is not worth the $19. On the plus side, if one figured out how things worked and it did not crash, I think it might be a good application but until the bugs are fixed and it becomes user friendly, avoid this product. Also, I did send a message to the customer service on this product and they responded immediately-so two thumbs up for customer service.
I don’t like it!
I can’t believe I wassted my money on this program. I will explain latter.
infuriating would be an understatment
videos are horribly laggy during editing and the software crashes every ten minutes over a literal mouse click. After spending forever editing a video, the audio is completley gone and when i go back to edit it, its completley ruined. waste of $20 and hours of my time.
Awful, but I paid so I’m gonna have to use it.
I first got the Lite version of the app because it looked promising, but after I was done making my ten minute movie, I downloaded it and it screwed uo the audio. It also only gave me five minuted of my movie. I get it; it’s the lite version. BUT THE APP NEVER GAVE ME A WARNING ABOUT IT. So, to not have wasted my time making the movie, I bought their $25 dollar pro version, and even that just led me to wasting my money. The app itself is extremely laggy. I made a twenty minute video recently, and it looked really good, but while I was working on it, it closed itself out. I expected a little tab to pop up saying it “unexpectedly closed and will be reopened,” because it’s closed out many times before. Never popped up, so I lost my days worth of work over this app. Also, I don’t know if it is just me, but everytime I try to save the draft, it saves the order and edits I made on the videos but never the actual videos or audio itself. What’s up with that??? Well, I’m probably gonna have to start over now because I spent twenty-five dollars on this and it would be a waste if I didn’t use it. >:( But yeah, I would never recommend.
What happened
I used Movie Mater Pro for about a year now and loved it until now the sound is all distorted. I used the same camera and settings. uninstalled and re installed. WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR PROGRAM??
Good basic editor
I have used this app about six times over the past two months and it has performed as advertised. No problems at all, and the output for iPhone is fine.
Video quality on export is terrible.
Video quality on export is terrible.
Pleased with App
This is my first time using anything like this. I wanted to edit some small videos of antique engines running and some videos of items I have made to be put on YouTube. I first tried the free version, then went right to the Pro. I did find some items confusing, but their help assistance is one of the best I have run into. Every question I have sent in has been answered within a day. I have purchased other apps from the Apple Site and have never received answers. It does have some bugs (maybe my Apple does not have enough processing?) but nothing that has caused me to regret my purchase. I feel I got a lot out of it so far. The two bugs I have noticed are in the area of drag-n-drop (sometimes I have to actually use Open and pick the file to be uploaded) and sound when added to a video. I got a lot of crackling with one sound file (it does play well normally) then picked another one that worked fine. Please note that I am new to this so it might be nothing more than pilot errors.
unstable, unusable
3/29/18 the developer reached out, asked for software. High Sierra 10.13.3. also asked for “video info.” I have no idea what that means specifically. the format is .mov if that helps. the length of the video is about 3.7 GB and 30 minutes long. — not recommended. for example, when I click pause, pause doesn’t work. how bad is that? not even pause works. instead it skips, both sound and picture, constantly, until I click play again. so, to say it’s utterly useless is too much praise because it’s also really aggravating. by the way, the only other way to stop the skipping is to force it closed. that’s quality! highly recommend you look elsewhere.
Wouldn’t recommend.
Every time I saved my work and opened it back up, it was erased. It showed that I had put video and audio in there, but everything was just white, and the video played completely black with no sound. My next plan of action was to just export it to save it and work on it later. Problem was, no matter what I did, it would ruin my videos every time. It would even add parts back into the video that I had deleted out. Not only did it ruin my videos that had been exported, but the one I had been working in on the app was messed up as well. I sent an email trying to get help about it and no one has answered, so now i have to spend more money on a new program. Very irritated at this point, and would not recommend.
Project loading
I have been watching the project loading bar for hours at a time only for it to just shut down!!! waste of money
Misleading Name
There is nothing “pro” about this app. It’s rinky-dink and does nothing beyond what iMovie does. I wish I could get a refund. There is no audio editing, and little else beyond basic splicing.
Biggest wast of money ever
This program was the biggest waste of money EVER. While it was easy to use, it only worked for 2 songs. After that, even though the program worked, not only could I not upload to anywhere I needed to upload to, it garbled the songs so that the videos were unusable. Highly NOT recommended!
PLEASE HELP—I love it, but it quit working!
I have used MovieMator Pro for years now; it is fantastic. However, within the last two months, it caught a bug where it WILL NOT IMPORT videos. I have tried everything to include uninstalling and reinstalling the app. I keep looking for an update, hoping for a fix. App makers, please help!!!!!!!!
Default Settings Incorrect
I wrote a review of this a couple months ago because it just started exporting my video with strange audio issues with everything being too low pitched. I messed with the audio settings recently and exported a few different videos and finally have it exporting regular videos now. For some reason the default audio for MP4 is 32000 HZ when it should be 44100 HZ. Changing this each time has let my videos export correctly again. I’m not sure why they just randomly started exporting at a lower HZ level, but it’s an easy fix as long as I remember to change it every time. Overall - I really like the interface and it’s simple to use. Just frustrated that I couldn’t get the audio correct for awhile and now I need to change it every time.
Good program. Easy to use. Exports in many formats
This is a great piece of software. If you need basic editing (chopping video, change speed, fade in/out, merge-transition), this is the one to get. Its really well laid out and its pretty intuitive. I have been looking for some software to edit some files from a DJI Phantom 3 Drone which shoots at 2.7k ( resolution 2704x1520 ) Have tried the demo of Final Cut Pro which is great but I cant justify £300 for some quick editing. iMovie does not seem to support 2.7k - it downsizes it to 1080p so no use to me. This seems to fit the bill ! It edits the files and can export to many different resolutions ! Can’t argue with that eh !
Amazing!!! My go-to app to make videos!
I totally like it. The app does what it says and have all the features I need to edit my family videos. Used the basic free version for months and I am really happy with it. Compared other tools, cropping, resizing, spliting, making PIP, creating transitions and exporting videos have become easier and quicker to me. Thanks goes to the developers and technical support. Every time I have questions, I can always get prompt response from their technical support. After several updates, the basic has become more and more stable and much easier to use now. I recently bought the Pro verison as it’s on sale, really a good bargain. The Pro version never shuts down and has more filters like color adjust, noise reduction which I use a lot. Now I can make perfect videos and all my family like the videos I made with MW Pro. Highly recommend!
Simple and effective
It’s easy to use and works well. I can splice my films and create the strips I want. Good editing program and easy to learn. It does crash on occasion. When adding texts, the default is time stamps, which have to be removed. Easy to splice in stills and sound bites and background script. Overall an inexpensive and useful movie editing program.
Buggy but works well. .
The only real problem I have so far is with the clips I edited to go faster sometimes get currupted and stop working without any way to undo or fix them. Other than that, it converts pretty quickly. Even longer videos that are 15 min convert in under 15 minutes. The filters are decently robust but lacking. Takes up a lot of memory quickly when you add many layers. Best part is the auto save. Worst part is the lack of keyboard short cuts and ultra fine adjustments. All in all. Great for hobbiests or interrum level editors.
Unbelievably Awful
No way to set in/out points for video. No way to separate audio tracks from video. Trim/cut behaviour is unintuitive. Avoid it. Avoid it like the plague.
AWFUL
Worst App. I have ever purchased. I finally finished a school project on this and it deleted the entire file, I was able to recover it, but every 5-10 minutes the app crashes. So upset I spent $19 on this crap, such a scam, DO NOT get this app.
Not Final Cut. . . But
I’m still trying to navigate this application, hoping it’ll replace the Final Cut Pro I can’t use with newer OS X system. All I needed was something other than iMovie to make simple short vids. So far I’ve learned how to split audio from a clip, use the timeline and hopefully will have mastered it all when I update this review. Following the pdf manual, it says “video’s disabled” when extracting/exporting audio from a clip. Not so — it says “audio disabled.” But it still works. I miss my Final Cut Pro, so am desperately hoping this will do. 3 stars and hopefully more after I’ve fully learned this program.
Not really happy with this
Yes you can edit and add video and audio, my problem is the video I uploaded was from a phone and it will not let me adjust the size to get rid of the black boarders. I worked with tech support and they could do nothing about it. Worked hard on a video and made sure to save twice just incase something went wrong. Turns out the save did not sork and I have to redo what I spent an hour doing. In addition to these I have a couple of files that cannot load and say that I need to email the company for a license. All in all look for another product I doubt they would have all these problems
Glitchy but helpts with easy jobs
It is an improved version although its design does not respond to the intuition on the user. TO create transitions is a nightmare specially if several photos are in line and they need to match some musical pattern. You create a transiton and all sequences have to be changes. A nightmare for me when I edited my first 3 videos.
Eh.
Everything worked fine for me. That was until I saved my project. When I saved the project, and then tried to open it back up, it said that it was the wrong type of file. I saved it directly from the app itself, but it’s telling me that its not the right file. I had to start completely over. Now I have to make sure my work is complete instead of saving and coming back to it. All of the other controls worked, but I did have a problem with adjusting brightness and contrast though.
Worst $20 Ever Spent
I spent 4 hours working on a project. Not only was it hard to use and glitchy for me to use also, but it shut down while i was working and i had to start over. I couldn’t save it to my computer. only the app itself. When I went back to open the video, it now doesn’t exist. I can’t believe this. I feel completely robbed from. i better get some kind of refund.
Very Glitchy
Doesn’t seem to work very smooth. In cliking on a simple thing like “add text,” it automatically shuts down. Hopefully your work was saved because there is no warning.
Crashes non stop
Out of all the programs I use on my Mac, this one is by far the least reliable. It freezes and crashes non stop. I’ve even checked to make sure it wasn’t just my Macbook which luckily it wasn’t. Turns out this program just has a ton of bugs that there seems to be no answer to fixing. Don’t waste your money.
DO NOT BUY
DO NOT WASTE YOUR $4.99 ON THIS PROGRAM. IT IS GARBAGE.
Exporting Videos Takes Hours Instead of Merely Seconds or Minutes
Some of the features that are finicky at times (such as when I use Fade In or Fade Out) when I use them don’t do much to aggravate me, but the issue that I have in particular for this program is really big. This issue that I have is the amount of time that the program takes to export my videos. It takes about at least 2 hours as opposed to the typical several seconds or minutes for the exporting process to finish even when the exporting settings is set in a way that I could reduce the amount of data space taken up such as when my videos are only about 15 to 30 minutes long. Do you suppose that you can fix this problem, so that I can enjoy this program a little more?
Piece of crap
I’m not sure what has happened, or what is happening with this app. I cannot save files. Every time I save a file and try to open it, the app starts with an new “untitled” file. And I cannot open what was saved. And when I export a file, it doesn’t export. I get a message saying done. But no file is exported. In addition to no being able to export, I’ve lost some of my compression option. I use to have selections such as: iPad, iPod, Android, etc. I don’t have those anymore. This app needs some serious fixing.
Great editing options, but buggy
Has a lot of editing option that can be very useful but its crazy buggy. When I try to simply rotate a clip it just turns into a black screen everytime. most other things were buggy too, wouldnt rccomend. Wish I could get my money back. Hate to say it but imovie is better over all.
Good value
If you’re looking for something to easily put some vids and pics together for Facebook or Instragram, this works well. Nothing fancy, but very capable.
Don’t buy this or use it.
Once you use it your file automatically becomes a mmp which is unconvertable, even with the purchase of the pro version. Waste of $20.00 don’t buy!!!