Just.. WOW. The price is justified, that's no over statement.
Okay, I first need to breath deeply into a brown paper bag. This app is AMAZING!!! It costs a lot, yes, but that's because you get a lot. You can even save out custom-made transitions which you have created yourself with keyframes !!! Did I mention keyframes! Yes ! You can animate anything with them, special effects and all! You can import in your own fonts, handle 4K 60fps footage. Just. WoW!
Okay, LumaTouch, please please, your app needs image masking, trajectory lines, image sequence (importing a zip might be best for iOS sake), sound scrubbing & please please, don't ditch iOS 10 support, I got too many apps that will never run on iOS 11 which I don't want to let go of.
Okay, LumaTouch, please please, your app needs image masking, trajectory lines, image sequence (importing a zip might be best for iOS sake), sound scrubbing & please please, don't ditch iOS 10 support, I got too many apps that will never run on iOS 11 which I don't want to let go of.
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Beats the competition by a mile
I try and avoid having to edit on my phone where possible because until now I wasn’t able to find an app that could provide me with everything under one hood meaning I was constantly importing and exporting between various app to deliver what I was looking for. This is no longer required now that I have discovered LumaFusion, a joy to work with, saves me time in post and now provided me with a clean feature rich platform for mobile editing on the fly, well done chaps 🙌🏻 Now what would take this to the next level would be the ability to do something like a “social story export” where it would automatically chop and export your footage into 15 second segments and either upload them in chronological order to your Instagram stories OR save them in chronological order to your camera roll for uploading later. This would definitely be a mobile story game changer and drive more business your way for sure 😎🤘🏻
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I can’t wait until they work out the export bug.
I created a four minute explainer video with multiple clips in three video tracks. The clips included video from my DSLR, some still pictures with key frame panning, some screen capture recording, and a transparent png overlay with our clinic logo. I also did some color correction to make my white shirt a true white while I was also able to maintain a pleasing warm skin tone.
This would not have been possible with iMovie.
The problem I had was when I tried to export the rendered video. The render would crash 33% of the way through until I had to delete clips and replace them with multiple renders in a time-wasting process of trial and error. It ultimately came down to one of my screen grab videos that I applied a speed change to, to slow it down. I unapplied the speed change, and it still crashed. I deleted the short clip, and it finally worked.
Ultimately I’m upset that I had to spend so much time troubleshooting the bug, and I had to compromise my creative vision with the end product by deleting the clip. I’m not completely upset. I come from an era of using Sony Vegas, where you had a lot of flexibility, but it crashed all the time. I have more faith in the Luma developers to get things fixed.
This would not have been possible with iMovie.
The problem I had was when I tried to export the rendered video. The render would crash 33% of the way through until I had to delete clips and replace them with multiple renders in a time-wasting process of trial and error. It ultimately came down to one of my screen grab videos that I applied a speed change to, to slow it down. I unapplied the speed change, and it still crashed. I deleted the short clip, and it finally worked.
Ultimately I’m upset that I had to spend so much time troubleshooting the bug, and I had to compromise my creative vision with the end product by deleting the clip. I’m not completely upset. I come from an era of using Sony Vegas, where you had a lot of flexibility, but it crashed all the time. I have more faith in the Luma developers to get things fixed.
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Lost files
On an iPhone, I took 6 videos. I brought all of them into my first LumaFusion project. I started the project and moved two of them to the video timeline. The iPhone was too small a platform to work on. Then I downloaded the app to my iPad with older iOS. My iOS was outdated. So then I bought a new iPad, with iOS 11.2.6 and downloaded my data from the cloud. When I downloaded the app to the new iPad, the 2 videos that I had added to the original video timeline when the project was on my iPhone were still in my photo/video folder, but the other videos were no where to be found! They were not on my iPhone nor in the cloud. Believe me, I checked multiple times! I lost hours of video time. I read after that there is the ability to delete material on your account from LumaFusion, but I don’t know how I did. If they were deleted via the app there should be a huge warning explaining what’s happening. I don’t remember doing anything that would have deleted any videos. I hardly did anything, given I could hardly work the app on the iPhone’s small screen. Anyone else seen this behavior? I like the functionality, but at this point, I’ll only use it after I back up my data separately before dragging any files into LF.
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Response from developer
Hi Debohf. We're sorry you had this experience, but we really don't have any way to delete your media from iCloud or the Photos app. We can't even delete media from Dropbox through the LumaFusion app. We would be happy to talk it through with you if you contact our support at support@luma-touch.com.
Good value
Lumafusion features a generous repertoire of intuitive editing tools. The only feature missing which prevents me from switching to Lumafusion full time is the ability to do speed ramping.
Also there doesn’t seem to be a way to organise projects into folders. This makes sorting through projects feel a bit messy once you’ve made lots of projects.
All in all this is a very capable editing app for a very reasonable price.
Also there doesn’t seem to be a way to organise projects into folders. This makes sorting through projects feel a bit messy once you’ve made lots of projects.
All in all this is a very capable editing app for a very reasonable price.
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Solid editing app
I’ve been using this video editing app for about a year now and have been very happy with it! I purchased and use at least three other apps before using this one and definitely think it was worth the money.
There were a couple of times where I had some issues with the app but it was with some complicated files and I contacted the developer and they help walk me through the issues.
I really hope that they add a couple of features in the future additions. The two I would like to see first would be a stabilization effect and a chromakey effect.
It does take a little while to learn how to use this app so don’t think you can buy it and then just magically be able to edit videos. Take the time to learn how to use it and the workflow and that time spent will be well invested.
There are a few instances while using the app that you might feel like you’re stuck on a screen. You just don’t know where to click to get back to where you were. In those situations it seems like you need to just click on whatever text is on the screen and then you’ll maybe end up where you want to be.
I’d like to finish this review was saying that that iMovie mobile is the worst video app I used of all the ones I tried. Also, I’d recommend getting a phone gimbal and a wide angle lens for shooting your videos on your phone.
I hope this helps. Aloha!
There were a couple of times where I had some issues with the app but it was with some complicated files and I contacted the developer and they help walk me through the issues.
I really hope that they add a couple of features in the future additions. The two I would like to see first would be a stabilization effect and a chromakey effect.
It does take a little while to learn how to use this app so don’t think you can buy it and then just magically be able to edit videos. Take the time to learn how to use it and the workflow and that time spent will be well invested.
There are a few instances while using the app that you might feel like you’re stuck on a screen. You just don’t know where to click to get back to where you were. In those situations it seems like you need to just click on whatever text is on the screen and then you’ll maybe end up where you want to be.
I’d like to finish this review was saying that that iMovie mobile is the worst video app I used of all the ones I tried. Also, I’d recommend getting a phone gimbal and a wide angle lens for shooting your videos on your phone.
I hope this helps. Aloha!
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simply spellbinding!
I am not one to write reviews, but having just spent the last two weeks editing a complex, multi-layer, ophthalmic surgery video with LumaFusion, I felt compelled to do so. This is the video editor that I have been lusting after and salivating about for years... and it will be the killer iPad app (for me, at least) that condemns my iMac (and FinalCutPro) to a remote, unused, dusty corner of my home office.
As an intermediate/advanced amateur videographer, this astounding bit of software hits all the right notes... and then some. Of the many features that blow me away are its lightning-fast render speeds and disarming ease of key framing. How do they do it?!?
At $20, LumaFusion is a you’ve-got-to-be-kidding-me bargain; hesitate not... just buy it! I would have happily spent five times as much had I known in advance what a (nearly) flawless dynamo this thing is.
Why write a review? Maybe a small show of gratitude to the development team and (selfishly) my fervent desire that the app is a smash commercial success such that the developers remain incentivized to keep making it better.
(Two wishes: 1/ the ability to warp/curve text; 2/ the ability to morph video/photos into different perspectives.)
Bravo!!
As an intermediate/advanced amateur videographer, this astounding bit of software hits all the right notes... and then some. Of the many features that blow me away are its lightning-fast render speeds and disarming ease of key framing. How do they do it?!?
At $20, LumaFusion is a you’ve-got-to-be-kidding-me bargain; hesitate not... just buy it! I would have happily spent five times as much had I known in advance what a (nearly) flawless dynamo this thing is.
Why write a review? Maybe a small show of gratitude to the development team and (selfishly) my fervent desire that the app is a smash commercial success such that the developers remain incentivized to keep making it better.
(Two wishes: 1/ the ability to warp/curve text; 2/ the ability to morph video/photos into different perspectives.)
Bravo!!
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Great application
They say Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Which is just what Adobe seems intent on doing with mobile strategy and their greatly limited and fragmented mobile offerings. They are frozen in fear as innovative young companies offer energetic and ambitious applications in video editing and other normal Adobe strongholds. LumaFusion was a great bargain at its price and would still be a bargain is the price was double. I can now foresee a pace of innovation where LumaFusion could soon overtake the power and features of Adobe Premiere desktop application.
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