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Movavi’s goal for its video editing software is to enable simple movie and clip creation, avoiding the sometimes needless complexity of the competition. That sounds great, but does it pan out in practice? After all, creating compelling videos often requires advanced tools and capabilities. You also want a responsive program that renders the final product quickly. Luckily, Movavi Video Editor is one of the best apps we’ve seen at packing a lot of capability into an unintimidating interface. For more power, however, check out our Editors' Choice winners for enthusiast video editing software, Corel VideoStudio and CyberLink PowerDirector.

What's New in Movavi Video Editor?

Movavi gets regular updates and new features. If you've already used the software, here's a rundown of what's new in Version 23:

• AI Background Removal. AI Background Removal is an effect that's made its way into many a photo editing app and is now making the move to video, where it's more challenging. It also saves you from having to shoot on a green screen.
• AI Noise Removal. AI Noise Removal is an important tool for making videos recorded with smartphones bearable to watch.
• Direct Upload to TikTok. Despite regulatory concerns, TikTok remains a popular YouTube alternative for social video, so many will find the option to directly upload videos to the site helpful.
• New YouTube frames. YouTube is still the primary home for social video, so Movavi appeases users of Google's site with some new bling.
• AI Upscaling. This new tool is separate from the video editor proper but rather is part of the included Converter utility. It's super handy for getting those smartphone clips looking sharp.
• Interface updates. The updates since my last review include several less splashy changes, such as not linking tracks by default, enabling gaps between clips, and only highlighting the second clip after a split, which makes deleting unwanted segments snappier.

Version 22 before that added some important new features as well:

• Audio tools. Movavi has both automatic and manual audio fix capabilities as well as new sound effects like Overload, Oscillation, and Vibrato.
• AI-powered motion tracking. Motion tracking is the fun ability to follow an object or person around the screen with an effect, object, or even another video.
• Color tools. The program now supports LUTs and lets you adjust hue, temperature, and tint. You can also use a dropper to adjust the white balance.

How Much Does Movavi Video Editor Cost?

You can get Movavi Video Editor for a one-time payment of $79.95 or as a $54.95-per-year subscription. That’s a good deal compared with the going rate of $99 to $129 for the likes of Adobe Premiere Elements and CyberLink PowerDirector.

The Movavi Video Suite adds a format converter, disc burner, and a screen recording app for $94.95 per year. The Movavi Unlimited plan ($129.95 per year or a one-time cost of $259.95) adds photo and PDF editing.

Movavi runs on both macOS (version 10.13.6 and later) and Windows (from 7 to 11). It’s available in the App Store and the Microsoft Store or as a direct download from the product site.

In a harbinger for performance, Movavi installs about as quickly as a web browser and takes up a very reasonable 280MB of hard drive space. Most consumer video editing software requires more than a gigabyte of storage these days. See the Performance section below for the full specs.

Movavi's Interface

Movavi Video Editor is refreshingly uncomplicated and labels every element clearly. A series of tooltips appear as you first perform actions, showing how to use the application. Buttons down the left rail move you between modes for Importing, Filters, Transitions, Titles, Stickers, and more. The last group includes important features like Color Adjustments, Crop and Rotate, Pan and Zoom, Stabilization, Slow Motion, and Chroma Keying. I’d put those above Stickers (fun as they are) if I were designing the program.

The Import mode includes sections not only for importing, but also the traditional Media bin that includes all project content, as well as for sounds, music, sample videos, backgrounds, and effect packages.

The main section layout of the program resembles that of most video editing software, with a source box at the top left, timeline tracks along the full width of the bottom half of the window, and a preview player at the top right. You can undock only the video preview panel, but the relative size of the other panels is adjustable.

Above the timeline, which doesn’t limit the number of tracks you can add, are buttons for Split, Rotate, Crop, Color Adjustments, Clip Properties, Markers, Record Video, and Record Audio.

You can stop and start playback with the spacebar and rescale the timeline with the mouse wheel-Ctrl key. Movavi supports some keyboard shortcuts, though not the standard pro J, K, and L for playback and I and O for in and out edits.

The Undo feature is impressive in that it works between sessions. In other words, I can close a project and still undo previous actions the next time I open it. Another nice touch is that when you apply a video or audio effect, a star appears in the clip in the timeline. Clicking it takes you right to the effect settings.

Starting a Project in Movavi

You start your video project by tapping the Add Files button. Alternatively, you can simply drag media from File Explorer or Finder. After you add the first media, a tutorial overlay shows what the parts of the interface are for. To add a clip to the timeline, simply double-click it. You can also drag it, or choose to add it to the current position, the beginning, or the end. You can also add it after the current clip from a right-click menu, which is very convenient.

Movavi supports most video common file formats. I had no trouble importing the H.265 content newer iPhones can shoot. You can also use its integrated video capture utility to record from a connected webcam or camera.

One feature vloggers and YouTubers should appreciate is Intro mode. It lets you create preset sequences to use at the start of all your videos for channel consistency.

Pros may miss the ability to pre-trim clips before dropping them into the timeline, but that shouldn’t bother hobbyists. The same goes for trimming options. You don’t get options like slip, slide, and roll; it’s simply trimming ends or splitting clips. Again, these limitations aren't likely to annoy amateurs. You trim clips on the timeline by dragging their edges in, which immediately snaps the new, shorter clip to its neighbor on the timeline.

Movavi offers a large selection of cool Transitions, with in-app purchases of more available. There are two ways to work with transitions. One is to switch to Transition mode, where you see thumbnails showing the transition effects in action. The other is to click the Transitions button above the timeline to choose a transition from a dropdown list on the Transition Effects page, which also houses the Pan and Zoom features.

You can apply random transitions throughout the project, a specific transition for all clip joins, or choose exactly which transition is applied to the selected clip. You can also set the duration. One nice aspect for amateurs is that the program never scolds you about not having enough overlapping footage; it just creates a good-looking transition with what’s on your timeline. One oddity, however, is that the interface lets you select more than one transition, so you need to uncheck all but the one you want to apply to a specific edit.

Correcting and Enhancing Videos in Movavi

Movavi’s Filters mode lets you apply Adjustments, Blur, Color filters, Vignettes, and more effects. The program provides a good selection of sample video and audio, most of which it downloads after you click on them. A search box lets you find any of the effects or transitions.

The real fun starts in the More Tools section (which changes to All Tools when you enter it). Here, you get to the Overlays, Stabilization, Animation, Chroma Key, and Audio tools. The Animation page’s Advanced tab is where you find the program’s only keyframe editing option, which is fine. Keyframe editing, which lets you mark exactly where on the timeline an effect should start and stop, is limited to size, position, opacity, and rotation, but that’s a plus for the program’s ease of use objective. However, those who want total control over effects and positions should look to PowerDirector or Pinnacle Studio, which let you time every effect and edit you apply with keyframes.

Color adjustments include Auto Contrast, Saturation, White Balance as well as Magic Enhance. These work well, with the Magic Enhance giving the image more presence and life. You can also manually adjust color settings, as shown below. A decent selection of included LUTs lets you change the mood of your scene to Drama, Thriller, Vintage, Trip to Mars, and seven more looks. Notably missing is the classic day-for-night effect (though that's seldom completely convincing when present).

The Overlay section lets you apply picture-in-picture effects with video clips that overlap on the timeline in separate tracks. You don’t get all the video collage templates that some other software offers, but you do get a few, and you can resize and position the pictures to taste. A guide that appears when your inner picture is centered either horizontally or vertically is a plus.

The Stabilization tool lets you set the accuracy and shaking parameters, and then preview the results. I was impressed with its effectiveness on a test clip. Even a severe shake was smoothed out and the overall feel of the video was calmer than the original.

Speed editing happens in two places. The Clip Properties panel has a Speed slider that lets you adjust the clip speed from 10% to 1,000%. The Slow Motion option simply lets you reduce the speed. Though it’s not on either of these panels, there is a Freeze-Frame effect you can add by right-clicking with the cursor on a clip in the timeline and choosing Insert Freeze Frame. Reversing playback is also a possibility on the Clip Properties panel.

Motion Tracking takes place not only in the Highlight and Conceal section of All Tools, but you can use it for text and stickers as well. First, you choose a mask that can be either a black shape or a blurred shape. You then have choices for feathering, opacity, and whether you want the shape to appear as an outline. Then comes the tracking, which can be either Quick, Precise, or AI. The latter wasn’t that slow in my testing, and it even stayed with the tracked subject after she passed behind a telephone pole, though not after she passed behind a car. The AI motion tracking option was able to follow the subject even after she passed behind a car (see video below).

The Chroma Key tool of course starts with green as the key, but a dropper lets you use any background color in the shot. You can also adjust the tolerance, noise, edges, and opacity. It works, but not as well as some competitors. Corel VideoStudio, for example, lets you choose more than one background color to key out.

AI Background Removal will be familiar to many from its appearance in photo software like Adobe Photoshop. The effect is currently making the move to video editors like Movavi, and it offers an easier option than green screen shooting. To use it, you just right-click on a clip in the timeline, choose Tools, and then Background Removal from the context menu. Alternatively, it's in the main toolbar's More Tools section. You then get a choice between Quick and Precise. I first tested Quick, with a subject on a background of varied foliage. It took just about 20 seconds on a 23-second clip and did a reasonable job (far better than what Vegas Pro managed). When I then tried the Precise setting, as you'd expect, it took about twice as long, but my result was more accurate:

Instant Movies

Movavi’s Montage Wizard lets you throw some media at the program and have it build a movie for you automatically, complete with a background soundtrack. You start by choosing Create Quick Video and adding your media. Next, you get a selection of templates like Family, Memories, and Travel. You see a preview of the template’s look and feel before you have to decide on using it. The last step is to choose the music mood you’re looking for before you can preview your video.

The tool adds striking titles to the start and end of the movie, and though it’s not very customizable, it does a decent job for the least amount of effort. It can even fit the music to your content and fill the black sidebars that result from shooting with a smartphone in portrait orientation. After creating the project, you can edit the creation in the full editor, save it as-is, or upload it to YouTube or Vimeo.

Titles and Text in Movavi

You get a plentiful choice of both tasteful and sassy titles, many with animation. As noted, you can motion-track titles. Resizing them and moving them around the preview screen gives you WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) results, which not all video editors are capable of. You get a wealth of font and color choices, and you can choose a background color and outline (aka stroke). Once you get a title looking to your taste, you may save it as a preset. Some of the titles sport basic animations like flyby and zoom.

Movavi's Audio Tools

Movavi recently added several audio correction and enhancement tools. Autocorrection for noisy places, enhanced voice recording, and recording studio join effects like Overload, Oscillation, and Vibrato. I tried the autocorrect on a windy outdoor smartphone clip. It didn't reduce the wind noise enough by default, but luckily there's a noise gate slider that got rid of that. The voice corrector did a good job removing room noise, desirable for podcasts.

A line on the timeline track lets you lower or raise clip volume, something Adobe Premiere Rush lacks. You expand the Audio Editing entry in All Tools to get to the relevant controls. Impressively, there’s a Synchronization option that lets you shoot from two different cameras—the first step toward multicam editing, which Movavi lacks.

There’s also an equalizer and nine effects, including Echo, Muffled, Telephone, and Robot. Other programs like Adobe Premiere Pro let you simulate different acoustic environments, such as those of a cathedral or stadium, but you can get close with the Reverberation tool. Movavi also includes a Beat Detect feature that adds markers at beat points to help you place edits and effects.

AI Noise Removal is new for version 23. I tried it on a clip filmed at Niagara Falls. You have two choices when doing audio noise removal: Artificial Intelligence and Default. Unfortunately, the AI option resulted in a very unnatural soundscape, and it doesn't offer a strength adjustment slider as the default option does. I was more impressed with the noise reduction tools in Wondershare Filmora.

Movavi Export and Performance

You get a good range of export options in the program, including standards like MP4 and MOV, as well as MKV, WebM, and GIF. You can save audio only to AAC, FLAC, MP3, OGG, WAV, and WMA. Output targeting Apple, Android, PlayStation, and Xbox devices is also on offer in the export dialog. Most interestingly, you can set the program up to directly upload to Google Drive, YouTube, and Vimeo. You get decent but not overwhelming control over technical details like bitrate for both video and audio, frame rate, resolution, and two-pass encoding.

Movavi is responsive on the whole for normal editing. It's also stable. I experienced no crashes at all while working with it, which is unfortunately rare in the video-editing software world, even with software from big companies, such as Apple's Final Cut.

Movavi uses graphics hardware acceleration with all three major GPUs: Intel, Nvidia, and AMD. It also creates proxies for high-resolution content for faster editing. In my rendering test, the program scored in the top three.

For render speed testing, each program joins seven clips of various resolutions ranging from 720p to 8K and applies cross-dissolve transitions between them all. I then note the time it takes to render the project to 1080p30 with H.264 and 192Kbps audio. The output movie is just over five minutes in length. I run this test on a Windows 11 PC sporting a 3.60GHz Intel Core i7-12700K, 16GB RAM, an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, and a 512GB Samsung PM9A1 PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD.

As you can see from the graph above, Movavi came in third with an excellent render time of 42 seconds, so rendering speed shouldn't be a problem for most users.

Movavi on the Mac

The macOS version of Movavi Video Editor has feature parity with the Windows version, and, as mentioned, it’s available on the App Store, which eases installation, updating, and use on multiple computers. As for speed on the Mac M1, the program exhibited snappy interface response in testing.

Movavi’s system requirements state that the software requires an Intel-based Mac, but I had to test on an M1-based MacBook Air since my Intel-based MacBook Pro succumbed to a fatal error while running Final Cut Pro. A Movavi rep told me that M1 native support would come “in a while,” but the app worked without issue on the M1 MacBook Air. The program looks the same as on Windows and sports all the same capabilities.

It's Easy to Make Moving Pictures With Movavi

Movavi Video Editor is enjoyable to use, and we recommend it for people who want to create fun, good-looking video productions. Unlike many consumer video editors, it’s not intimidating or overloaded with options, yet it still offers most of the advanced techniques people want, including chroma key, transitions, title text, picture-in-picture, music and audio editing, and even motion tracking. For the most power and performance in video editing software for enthusiasts, check out our Editors’ Choice winners, CyberLink PowerDirector and Corel VideoStudio Pro. For easy editing on the Mac, stick with iMovie, and for advanced work, look to Final Cut Pro. Finally, working professionals in the video industry will likely need to use Adobe Premiere Pro.