Pro video editing, built for touch from the first frame: a multi-track timeline, keyframes, colour, titles and HDR export on iPad, iPhone and Mac, with every tool made for a finger, and Smart tools that take out the silences, find the cuts and write down every word, on the device.
V1 is magnetic: drop a clip between two others and the track closes up round it. The title on V2 goes wherever you let go. Keys work too: focus a clip and use ← →.
What people actually edit
Nobody's first edit is a feature film.
It's four kids who can't wait for the cake. A dinner that ran late. The dog's first week home. Up you go, one more time. These are the edits people actually make, and they deserve a proper editor.
Four built-in templates start you off, each cut to the beat of its own music. Drop your clips into the slots, type over the words, and it's an ordinary project, every clip and move yours to change.
Years of scrolling, pinching and holding, finally put to work. Every move is timed so it never fights a scroll: a slide still scrolls, and a hold still holds.
0.3 s
Hold a clip
It lifts. Carry it along the timeline or up a track, and a yellow line shows where it will land.
pinch
Pinch the timeline
From the whole project in view to 800 points a second. The tracks stretch under your fingers and only settle when you mean it.
0.3 s
Hold the picture
It plays at 2× while you hold, forwards on the right half and backwards on the left.
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Tap the picture
The right third steps one frame forward, the left third one frame back. Quick taps keep stepping.
0.14 s
Press ⋯ and slide
Every ⋯ and More opens as you press. Slide the same finger to a row, let go, and it runs.
2 taps
Double-tap a clip
The Enhanced Editor opens on it, full screen, with the tabs that suit the clip.
2 fingers
Carry with a second finger
While one finger carries a clip, a second on the overview strip brings any part of the project to meet it.
A closer look
Nine screens, straight from the app.
Every screen and recording here is the real app, cutting the clips and photos credited at the foot of this page.
Counted, not claimed
What ships today.
iPad, iPhone and Mac
One editor, on all three.
One Cold Editor, three shapes. On iPad, the Studio Bar opens panels either side of the picture. On iPhone it stands tall in portrait, with the tools in reach of your thumb. On Mac it's the same editor with a keyboard, a mouse and room to spread out.
Every edit behaves the same
A split, a keyframe or a colour change does exactly the same thing on all three.
Laid out for what you hold
On iPad, panels either side, resized with a drag. On iPhone, one thing under the picture at a time. On Mac, every tool says its key when you hover.
Projects that travel
Save a project as one file, media inside, and AirDrop it: it opens on the next device with every edit as you left it.
The whole toolbox
Every tool, by name.
Have a rummage: tap any tool to see what it does. Filter by what you make, search by name (typos forgiven), or tap Select and pick the ones you'd try first, the way you pick clips.
On your device, not ours
Your footage stays on your device.
There is no account to make and nothing to upload. Every frame is cut, graded and exported on the device in your hands, and the Smart tools hear and see your shoot there too. That is also why captions arrive as fast as your iPad can listen instead of waiting in a queue, and nothing you export comes back with somebody else's watermark on it.
Nothing to sign in to
No account, no analytics, no tracking and no ads. The app has nowhere to send your work, so it never does.
It edits with no signal
Every tool works offline, and the app makes no connections of its own.
What comes out is yours
No watermark and no badge on your export. Colour is graded and written in true Rec. 709, at 10 bits when your footage is, so it matches everywhere else you take it.
Coming to iPad, iPhone and Mac
Next birthday, you're the editor.
Cold Editor
Cold Editor is coming to iPad, iPhone and Mac. It isn't on the App Store yet: it's being built and tested on real iPads, iPhones and Macs right now.
Free to download, and every edit is free. Export three films free, then buy Cold Editor once to export without limit: $39.99 / £39.99 at the early-bird launch price, until 5 January.
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