Add Drawings to Your Videos With Magisto

Magisto is a free video creation and editing application for Android and iOS. Using Magisto you can mix together raw video clips, pictures, and sounds on your phone or tablet to create a video. A new Magisto feature only available for Android users allows you to draw on frames in your video clips and add borders to your frames. Learn more about this new feature in the video below.

Magisto can be integrated with your Google Drive account allowing you to add video clips stored in your Google Drive account to your Magisto projects. All of the processing and editing of Magisto videos happens in the cloud so you will need an internet connection to use the app.

WeVideo Brings High Quality Video Editing to Android Devices (some of them)

WeVideo is a cloud-based video editing service that I have been promoting in my workshops and on Free Technology for Teachers for the last year. WeVideo has offered an Android app for a while. WeVideo Camera allows you to record pictures and raw video and upload it to one of your existing projects.

This weekend I learned via TechCrunch that WeVideo is launching a new Android app that will allow you to create and edit videos on your Android devices. The new WeVideo Android app promises to deliver the same ease of video editing that you find in the online version. The app is currently in beta and only available for a handful of devices. Learn more in the video below.

When it becomes available on more devices the WeVideo Android app could be a great tool for students to use to create and edit videos from anywhere. In a social studies course have them use the app to be citizen reporters reporting on local news stories. In a science class you might have them use it to create mini documentaries about plants and animals that they can video with their cameras.

Magisto Magically Improves Your Raw Video Footage

Magisto is a free video editing app available for Android and iOS. The app allows you to add music tracks and some simple effects to your raw video footage. If you have a series of clips you can string them together in one video. To create your video you can use footage that you have captured with your device’s native app or you can use Magisto to capture new footage.

If you’re looking for an easy way for students to create short video stories, Magisto might be the app you need.

Did a Factory Reset on my Galaxy Tablet and Discovered a Great App

This evening I reset my Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 to its original factory settings. I did it because I had run out of storage on the device. Installing an app a day for months will fill up any device and since I only use about ten of those apps on a regular basis it was quicker to do a factory reset than manually remove dozens of apps. When I reset the tablet and started it back up, I discovered a nice video creation app that is pre-installed on the device and that I had overlooked for six months.

Movie Studio is a default app installed on the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and other devices using Honeycomb (Android 3.0+). Â (As a point of clarification I have the original model not the newly released version 2). The app allows you to mix together image, video, and sound files to create a short movie on your tablet. There are some basic transitions that you can place between elements. You can also insert some text. As you might guess, the entire Â creation process takes place on a timeline in a drag and drop style. Your finished movie can be saved on Â your tablet (warning, that will eat up storage quickly), emailed, or uploaded directly to YouTube.

I searched all over Google Play and the Samsung App store, but unfortunately could not find a way to install Movie Studio on other devices. But if you have a tablet running Honeycomb, make sure you don’t overlook Movie Studio. Movie Studio could be a great app for students to create movies on the go.

Important Update: Minutes after I posted this Tammy Lind Tweeted to me that Movie Studio is a part of Android 4.0.

Try WeVideo’s Camera App for Collaborative Video Creation

Cross-posted at Free Technology for Teachers.

WeVideo is a collaborative, online video creation and editing tool that I’ve been quite excited about since last fall. In January they left beta and opened to the whole world. Their latest update was the launch of a free Android app.

The WeVideo Android app will allow you to capture images and videos then quickly add them to collaborative video projects in WeVideo. Before you upload your videos with the app you can trim them to save editing time when you’re using WeVideo on the web. And just like when you use the web version of WeVideo, you can invite other WeVideo users to view your media and contribute to your projects.

While using the WeVideo online editor you can upload your own media clips or use stock media clips to produce your video. The video editor provides tools for trimming the length of display and or sound of each element you add to your video project. What makes WeVideo collaborative is that you can invite other people to create and edit with you.