Filmmaker Pro - Video Editor Reviews

by E.K.M.35

FilmmakerPro was great. I was editing my video with pictures and adding words. It took me a while and I was proud of it. Then, I added some music to it. Just as I was about to watch it, to make sure it was how I wanted it, it said that I wouldn’t be able to share it unless I paid money and got PRO. That was the whole point I made it though! ☹️ I wanted to make a video and post it FOR FREE! Then, I thought that maybe I wouldn’t have to pay to share my video if I took the music off, but I couldn’t take it off! And it wouldn’t even let me screen record my video! I wish that it would’ve told me that I would have to pay in order to share it before I made the video. Then I just would’ve deleted FilmmakerPro and happily looked for a different one. I spent a lot of work on this video so that I could share it, but I couldn’t! It was really disappointing! Also, if it is “too long” you’ll have to close FilmmakerPro and then go back into it in order to keep editing your video! ( Do NOT get FilmmakerPro unless your willing to pay and you don’t care about your time! 😤😭

by TheRobloxLover1

I would say FilmmakerPro is only “ok” I will give you my reasons on why I did not enjoy FilmmakerPro. 1st it takes forever to change the size of the texts, like what if I wanted a small text to make it look like they are saying something, well I have to hold down the ⬇️ for so long to get to the number I want. 2nd why when I place a text down I can’t move it because when I was using FilmmakerPro I accidentally put the text in the wrong place I can’t move it how come developers? This goes with music too. 3rd I wish you could stretch the music and it would repeat, however it dose not do that YOU have to add another music and add the same song over and over again, and that is a huge waste of time. 4th it takes so long to actually “make” the movie to have to wait A while for it to fully load ALL your pictures, when I uses iMovie I would have my movie ready with ALL my pictures really fast. And 5th why do you have to pay money just to share your movie that is the whole point people get FilmmakerPro is to share their movies with their family’s and friends. Well readers and developer you have red all my reasons to why I am never using FilmmakerPro again. Please tell me some answers for my reasons because I am still questioning. Please do not say something like “you can buy PRO only for 5.99” I’m sorry but I’m just a kid and my parents don’t let me spend my money just on some app that will make movies for me, so please understand I cannot buy PRO.

Sincerely and confuse, Me

by Yaküb Poi

I’ll keep this short, like you should keep the videos you use FilmmakerPro for, because in order to produce a video longer than some arbitrary time you have to purchase Filmmaker pro (Tm). That’s reasonable (the pricing isn’t, but whatever it’s an ok app so I bought it). I bought a month long subscription that i get to remember to cancel before it charges me the same rate again next month because I wanted to make one video. I finished editing it last night and opened FilmmakerPro today to export it today. Uh oh I don’t have the pro version anymore. I try to restore my purchase. “Your purchases were successfully restored”; nope. Sure were not successfully restored. I try to pay for a month long subscription AGAIN to try and not waste over 10 hours of editing I’ve already put into it. I can’t buy it because I’m already subscribed. I do this entire process multiple times trying to desperately not have just wasted so many frustrating hours trying to edit a video on my phone to begin with. I am going to go buy some cheap trinket from a dollar store and smash it into smithereens now.
-10/arbitrary scoring number. FilmmakerPro is either a scam or complete garbage. This was longer than intended, just like the tumultuous march through Hell that is dealing with Filmmaker “Pro”

by Nothank$3459

I have been working with FilmmakerPro for two years now. It operation is sub par, glitchy, and frustrating. I dealt with it because the interface was user friendly. There would be hours before where it would crash, freeze, delete a video but it wasn’t worth getting worked up about. I have now spent 24 hours, excusing the time to sleep, trying to get FilmmakerPro to load so I could finish my work and get paid. It was slow to load, so I thought I will delete some old content to help with the lag, this has worked in the past. BIGGEST REGRET! FilmmakerPro was frozen for 15 minutes, I was trying to be patient, I had to force stop FilmmakerPro , and now here we are. Day two and it still won’t open. Weeks of work are now in the filmmaker void unable to be accessed and that’s just the content I’m currently trying to work with let alone the months of work I have stored on FilmmakerPro that are now gone because if i delete FilmmakerPro to reinstall my data will be lost. Heartbroken and frustrated. If you’re looking to be frustrated often and editing a simple video to take longer than necessary because of slow loading and glitching download FilmmakerPro. You will be disappointed.

by Genericlizard

I signed up for the $5.99 monthly Pro plan to test for my needs. After a week or so, I decided to cancel after the first month, so I changed my subscription. I tried producing more videos (they have great fonts, and transitions and some music options in the pro version) and no longer had access to the pro options though I was still within my paid month. When I clicked “restore” it restored the monthly subscription but not the pro access in FilmmakerPro . I uninstalled/ reinstalled and still not working. When I try to use a pro font, I get a pop-up that asks me to restore. When I click restore, I get a pop up saying it was successful. And then when I try to use the pro font, I get a pop-up that says restore. When I click the “contact us“ link to try to reach out to their support, it didn’t go anywhere. But when I click the link to leave a review just below it, I was offered the ability to leave a review. Normally I would just reach out to support before leaving a bad review but this may be the only way to contact them. The videos I was able to create were quality but FilmmakerPro has some bugs that I need addressed.

by Slime_loving_dolphin

I worked for long, hard hours to put together a movie for me to enjoy with my family. When my movie was finally completed, I was thrilled and the time has come for me to upload the movie to my camera app. But there was a bit of a problem. In FilmmakerPro, apparently you have to pay for the PRO version and pay money in order to export into your photos. This was a huge shocker because I worked so hard to come to find there is no way to save the movie. The only way to save the movie is to press the expand screen button and screen record the movie into your camera app, but in the corner there’s this yellow arrow that won’t disappear that says, “Remove limit” so even if you do screen record to post it, your viewers will have their minds on why there’s a “Remove limit” icon on the upper left corner. Even if they would just get rid of that annoying announcement that tells me to “Remove limit” I wouldn’t be writing this poor review, but because of that small icon, my whole time and commitment to the completion of the video was wasted and the video itself was wasted as well.

by Justsomememedued

Honestly I tried making a full on ur video on this and I had so much problems with it.

For one every time I crop the video or something for some reason it also shortens the video too? And there’s a lot of audio issues I got while trying to edit and sometimes if I were to attempt to paste a single clip to make it sort of loop it doesn’t even transition the audio smoothly you can tell that there was a cut in the video which is annoying and I tried the same thing in another app and it did it perfectly. There’s also the fact if I split a clip most of the time you’ll be able to see a green line on the side in the split clip and most of the times it’ll just cut to black and audio would still play and the video would just be missing feo some reason which again is really annoying, The chroma key is pretty bad too I would press on the color I’m trying to chroma key out but it chroma keys everything but the color I tapped. I know these may sound like a me problem it might even annoy you too when you’re trying to make a video and I only got to make the intro bit of the video I didn’t even get to the rest before giving up because of how many issues I had.

Overall FilmmakerPro has some great potential but unless they fix this I wouldn’t recommend using it for now

by MsDigitalD

I’m about to delete FilmmakerPro cause that’s how frustrating it is. The way you have to click on it and the selecting has made it for a lot of trial and errors especially since there no undo. I’ve had to start all over again, too many times because I didn’t know if what I was selecting to trim was to keep or discard. I figured since it’s trim I would the select the piece of video I wanted to trim off and that would be deleted. Nope I was wrong but look there’s no undo and now I have to start from the beginning. BIG PROBLEM. LOTS OF TIME WASTED. The there’s not a way after you detract the audio to reattach it or maybe I am missing it. Another this is file naming, why can’t I change the file name or folder name or where it gets exported to. I don’t even know when it is and I have to go looking for it and I can’t find it easily cause I am not able to change the name to the file or folder to make it easily located. It’s been very frustrating. Hopefully I’m just blind and I can’t find the undo button, reattached audio and the renaming of files/folders cause if it doesn’t get added soon I’m going to have to find a new video editing app.

by Robloxobbymaster

So, when I started using FilmmakerPro, I decided to make a 1 minute long video. It went out pretty well, I tested out the trim on that and it worked fine. (Before I knew that it would put the text out of place) So I decided to use it on my 8 minute long video and guess what. It trimmed it but... the text just wasn’t, in the right place. I figured it would keep the text where it was but nope. I thought that I could save it but I put a lot of text in the video. So I just gave up and remade the whole video. I got so frustrated, and once I nearly finished the second video, I accidentally clicked on the illustrations button AND text button at the same time. It ended up making the whole app crash for some weird reason. I just thought it was the normal crashes I usually had while making the video, but that wasn’t the case. Once I reopened my video it crashed again. It just wouldn’t stop crashing. And then that’s when I got FURIOUS!!! HOURS OF WORK DONE IN RETURN FOR NOTHING!!! I tried restarting my iPad but that didn’t work either, it still crashes. I am still upset about the fact that it is just completely gone.

by Dr.5335

This is a really nice software and easy to use. It has helped me a lot with past things and is really helping with present and probably future things. There are a few downsides though. When you put a picture, but then want to trim the time of how long it stays, it will shorten, but you can’t make it longer if you made a mistake. Another thing is you can’t have a clip less than .5 seconds. FilmmakerPro keeps randomly exiting me off it and it keeps losing my most recent progress. It takes a long time to load and a REALLY REALLY REALLY long time to download it and make it a video rather than watching it with the rest of the scenes under it. A horrible spoiler for my family when I show them my mini films. It keeps exiting me off of my movie and this upsets me because I spend so long on it, and it’s not even that long. It’s about 8-10 minutes long, so I’m deleting a bunch of things that I shouldn't have to, and it STILL keeps exiting me off! It was something really special for my family, and now I can’t even watch one full minute of it.

by Toad Pond

FilmmakerPro is amazing however it is not free and that makes me a bit sad 😢 However FilmmakerPro is pretty good!here is a little note to the developer: FilmmakerPro is amazing you did an awesome job putting all of your hard work into it! But like I said it is not free and I would like it to become free for everyone. I am not saying I do not like FilmmakerPro. I totally love it it’s just that it’s not free and I have to pay for it as well I’m also really into photo editing and things like that so I would like app where you can animate and edit things just like a professional! Here is my idea of what you could do to make FilmmakerPro free: you could either stop having people to pay for it or you can make another copy kind of like this that is free but however the rest of FilmmakerPro is amazing also when I downloaded it I was super excited but when I figured out you had to pay for it I had to delete it but I got a play around with most of the tools so that was good also I noticed how much detail the iPads and how many professional toys do you included so great job I’m also hoping for a response from the developer or his/her crew also please let me know what you think of the ideas I would really appreciate if you made FilmmakerPro free,also you did an amazing job putting it together and brainstorming about FilmmakerPro !-Very good job 👍🏻!!!

-Etoad

by Alyssa The Stray

I’m on my 2nd year now of paying for this subscription. I found FilmmakerPro because I was annoyed with some of iMovie’s limitations, but wanted a good editing app for my phone. This has overall been an amazing app, but I am very frustrated with a few things:

1. There’s no option to duplicate illustrations, drawings, and other things in that category.

2. There’s no option to zoom in for edits. I’m trying to edit about 100 screen recording videos on my phone, but it won’t let me zoom in or flip to a portrait viewing even though I have selected that I want to make a portrait video so I am working with about 1”x2” of screen space.

3. When I want to edit text and drawings, it won’t let me type in a number for the size that I want the text or drawing. I have to press the down and up arrows for a minute until it gets to the size I want, and then with the illustrations it won’t let me make anything smaller than 20%.

4. At the moment I’m trying to edit something in the uppermost portion of the screen, but the video time stamp is hovering over the spot I want to edit.

All of these problems I’m sure would be much easier to work with on an iPad, but I don’t have an iPad and I don’t see why these things would be difficult to change or add more options in settings. Overall I love FilmmakerPro, and I’m hoping that someone could make a few changes.

by Billy Farts Popsicle

So I really like it if you are putting Videos together but pictures is not what I expected it to be. I wanted to take a stop-motion of my legos and it took way too long for the picture to go to the next one! If you want to do stop-motion than FilmmakerPro is not for you! If you like it to take a while to move from one picture to the next than, what are you waiting for!! Get it! I only do videos even if I want the picture to move slowly from one to the other and I promise it is not my internet! They did it on purpose and if there was a way to make it go faster than please tell me! I would love that!😊Also if it’s not there than please could you add it and tell me about it! The stop-motion is the whole reason I got FilmmakerPro and I still use it but I would use FilmmakerPro a lot more if FilmmakerPro had it! Also there is not many adds that I am aware of so far! I love that! If you hate adds and love editing than get this!!!

by Potato Peyton

I use FilmmakerPro to make gacha videos. With what I use, it works really well. I can easily load my iTunes music onto my video and I can change the time pretty easily too. I only have a couple have issues with it. The loading time takes forever! If you have a lot of pics like I do most of the time, it could take a good 5 minutes or so. I don’t like how the lowest time limit is 0.5 when it could be a little lower than that. Half a second may seem quick but when you TRY and work on even the tiny details, you might need a quick flash of a pic. Another thing is how big the watermark is. I understand that the watermark is there for a reason and that I can simply remove it with pro, but I’m a broke teenager who needs to save for a car. The watermark takes up a good portion of the corner too. It would be slightly better is it were clear. Luckily the watermark is in the unused corner. No text will be there.

That seems to be my complaints.

by Start-Up Guy

**To update. There’s a major problem with the time synchronization of the chroma key feature. I’ve created, multiple times, a backing video to use with a chroma key video. Both videos have been time aligned to the same audio track. Yet when combining the videos through chroma key the timing is up to 10 seconds off in spots. But not consistently. I’m looking for a different app now as I can’t find a solution through this one.

So I love FilmmakerPro! I used to to edit an entire music video on my iPhone SE and it came out great. The features are powerful and it’s very intuitive. There’s only two real problems that I’ve been experiencing. First, I wish I could lock clips into place on the timeline. It would make it much easier to A/B different clips and B-roll during editing, instead of how it’s currently set where the next clip plays directly after. So if I delete a five second clip, instead of five seconds of white space my entire video from that point on is 5seconds out of time.

Lastly, and it may be a user issue, but I cannot get the phone to upload this video anywhere in anything higher than 360p. Does it export in 360?

by Long_x_Friend

This was magnificent. I purchased the one month Pro version for the wonderful added benefits (layers of music, writing, photo-on-photo,etc) so I didn’t miss any details for this special gift. Through using it, I only found one thing that made the process of making the video, tedious. If I wanted to edit a photo/video (like changing the display time) it would automatically zoom the picture in. So just make sure you get all your pictures set first, next put them in the order you want, then add your text (and PIN IT TO THE CLIP!), finally you add your music and playback to check timing and flow. I loved using FilmmakerPro!!! It allowed me to make a 30 minute movie, showering my grandmother with birthday wishes all over the country and brought back memories for her. I later took snippets from the party and made a thank you video to send to everyone in it!!

by CringeBoiGD

Obviously I knew that there would be some risk with buying an expensive video editor on my IPad, especially when I haven’t really looked into different ones very much, but I know that this software, despite sometimes crashing, does have a lot of helpful features, if you need text on screen, picture in picture, sound effects and music, and a really buggy but otherwise enjoyable chroma key (green screen) effect which is a bit hard and sometimes impossible to pull off, especially with gradients.

Now, the main point; it’s got one glaring issue that weighs my opinion of it down. When I add too many things or even one thing in, especially chroma keys, the whole thing crashes.
**Disclaimer: This does not always happen, so it’s not too bad, but it does happen occasionally and is very annoying.**
I don’t know why it does this, especially when I have plenty of space on my device and a good internet connection (although that shouldn’t be required). My suggestion would be to try to fix this (duh), but seriously, this is important to prioritize because of how badly it affects the product.

Also, for free users, it would be helpful if you could display where the watermark appears, or maybe let them move it a little to make it more convenient. Maybe that would at least help them figure it out easier.

by Friend Of Kane

Ok so I absolutely love FilmmakerPro!!! It’s been amazing for me and I haven’t come across any problems yet! It took me a little bit to figure out everything and the little things that pop up when you press the plus to make a new film or whatever your doing is really helpful because it reminds me what I have to do! I use this to make my gacha vids and I love it so far 😍!!! Another thing I love is that it lets me put in music from my playlist! This is really helpful for me because some apps have music that you have to pick from If u want music instead of letting you access your playlist but then they don’t always have the song your looking for so it’s not very helpful. It also has sounds and there own music that you can add if you don’t want any of the songs in your playlist! It has been such a great app and I am so excited I could find an app that actually works for me that doesn’t delete all my work so it’s been the best app I’ve had yet! I recommend getting FilmmakerPro if you make gacha vids and your looking for an app that you can use to make your vids! I gave this a five star review!!!!

by Chase1982Photoshopking

I have been into photography Photo shopping for year and making my own videos and slide shows i’ve used hundreds of app never been satisfied until now I have not been able to put FilmmakerPro away cents downloading i’ve probably Photo shopped about a hundred pictures and still have not been through all FilmmakerPro has to offer
As Of right now the only thing I don’t like when your creator I wish there was a way to click on All of your picture to edit them Stead of having to do for example if I wanted to speed them all up slow them down to click on each pic individually and also sometimes it cuts out more of my pic then I want it to for example A picture of me on a motorcycle It cuts out my motorcycle so if there’s a way for you guys to it’s that I would greatly it or if it’s already fixed and I am unaware please let me know I am definitely satisfied with your app and as of someone who never for apps like this I always just fine free ones I must say your app it’s definitely worth paying for and I can’t wait to see everything your app has to offer as well as all the great improvements I know you guys Will make in the near future

by MEGA74111

Recently SPLICE did a major upgrade which they made some major changes to their software with many restrictions. I downloaded and started using FilmmakerPro before the de buckle over their at the world famous GoPro studios..Yawn! So I was using both app very frequently. I like the options FilmmakerPro has. It’s much better than SPLICE. I use Final Cut Pro for video art projects. It’s nice to be able to use an app like this on my new iPhone XS Max and with 512 gigs I’ve got tons of storage. Life without a video edit app in your pocket is just plain and boring. I hope if this company decides to do a major update they send out a memo to people like me who use FilmmakerPro every day and really enjoy it. I would like to request a “duplicate” button for the audio you import and a rewind option for video clips. That would step up this game, hint hint;)

by GabbyLopes

i spend MONTHS making a vlog for something i did over the summer. it took forever because every SINGLE TIME i edited a clip, i would get kicked out FilmmakerPro . even though this was frustrating and such a waste of time, i still continued to make the vlog because i wanted to complete it. not to mention, EVERY TIME I GOT KICKED OFF, it would take at LEAST three minutes to reload the whole video which is ridiculous. i spend HOURS finishing the video months later and i think it’s really good. i go to download the video so i can share it to everyone who was in the vlog and you have the pay for it. not to mention my sound COMPLETELY DISAPPEARED. i swear to god this is so frustrating FilmmakerPro isn’t worth it. the sound only works when not on full screen. i’m literally crying over months of work going down the drain because of this poor choice in an app which i used to rely on. don’t get FilmmakerPro it’s not worth the aggravation and disappointment in the end. i literally feel depressed rn because of you.

by Lunamoon_luna

This used to be such an amazing app! Almost everything was free and it was very accessible. It used to be my absolute favorite app to edit videos and photos because it was so easy to control and not that complicated. Now if you want to share or save the video/picture that you made to your photos it will ask you to buy something for like $5 a month! That’s $60 a YEAR to keep a video that you made?? Many fonts also used to be free, but now they want the $5 a month thing. Now I have to watch multiple tutorials to figure out how to use a more complicated FREE app. I would much rather struggle and have to learn a new app then pay $60 dollars a year though. I had recommended FilmmakerPro the my friends and now I realize I need to tell them that they should no longer use it. I hope that anyone who wants to get FilmmakerPro sees this and realizes what a waste of time it would be to download this if you can’t even keep your own videos and photos and are limited to what you can actually do for free. Thanks for reading all of this and right after I submit this review I will be deleting FilmmakerPro.

by 🐶🦊🐮🦁🐵

Ok, so I LOVED it the first day! It made all my Gacha Life videos better! But there is one little I guess you can say glitch on the screen. It tells me that I can remove some limit? It doesn’t make sense to me. So I ignore it since I get it all the time. But when I go on to full screen mode for my Gacha Life to make sure it’s ok, there is a little glitch where the tab that says “Remove limit” is there on the full screen. I then need to check my Gacha Life out of full screen mode. Now, it doesn’t bother me personally, but I think people who don’t like those tiny glitches shouldn’t be so frustrated and... triggered (???) just because of a little glitch on full screen mode. So I think this should be fixed because there are some people that don’t want to remove their limits. Eventually the glitch is going to annoy them. Maybe we can have some way to get rid of the tab glitch so we don’t have to see it again unless we want it.
Again, this does not affect me personally, I just want to say that this might aggravate some people who hate tiny glitches.
Thank you so much for helping me make my Gacha Life videos amazing!

by Simplyfatim

FilmmakerPro is absolutely amazing, the array of fonts is above par, the control over the videos appearance is amazing, and all the cool text effects are to die for! One issue I’ve noticed recently is that I am no longer able to pinch the text to make it smaller, the only way I’ve managed to shrink the text is by holding down on the arrow that’s assigned to the text’s size. Another issue that I have is whenever I record background audio, and I start over, it doesn’t show the proper preview of the video. For example, if I’ve already recorded 30 seconds of audio and then chose to start over, after retrying it’d still be on the mark where I stopped it, rather then going back to the beginning of the clip. All in all FilmmakerPro is amazing, and I can’t wait to se what y’all have in store!

by That Gurl That Likes Doggos

I spent a really long time, then I found this. When I was putting in videos, it kept the audio at the right space, it wasn’t confusing like some other apps, and I was able to do exactly what I needed to do. After a while, I finally finished. I was really excited, it worked perfectly, but when I went to save it, it would only save it if I paid for it. I don’t understand why it’s free if you can’t save all the work you did with it. Its due today and now I just spent a long time on FilmmakerPro when I could’ve gotten another one to do it and actually be able to export it. I can understand paying for more features but for exporting the video I don’t understand. Other than that this is an amazing app and I’d definitely recommend it, unless they can’t pay to export it, like me.

by AztecRenewable

I have had FilmmakerPro for a year or so and loved it. I became dependent on its capabilities and used it for my business. Now that I depend on it, it stopped working. I had already been paying for the service, when suddenly it required me to purchase again. I was thinking my credit card had changed or it’s been a year since I had purchased FilmmakerPro . I have spent two days trying to purchase it again ( I’m a IT professional), read everything about in app purchases, checked every setting, verified OS / App updates and contacted tech support who told me to turn off/on my device and everything will be fine. I even check my iPhone app as my iPad is paired together. Both apps on both devices report in app purchase failed. I can pay Uber, but not theses guys.

It’s not fine!

by Nic!8.

First off I want to say that FilmmakerPro was pretty great and had a lot of what I was looking for, however, there are a couple things to be weary of before downloading. Lots of the better features cost money, which is not unexpected. Although, I will say that the price for individual package purchases is somewhat high compared to the annual membership price. Again, it’s not overwhelmingly expensive, and is expected that the company would rather have you buy the membership. Needless to say, I’m sure the small issues with FilmmakerPro will continuously be improved through updates. In total, other than a few minor glitches, and FilmmakerPro occasionally crashing on more demanding projects(I never lost any progress on after a crash I simply had to re-enter FilmmakerPro , I highly enjoy it.

by Charrrity

So I bought FilmmakerPro and I love it. I’ve made videos using it and it is great. I only use FilmmakerPro for music and very nice fonts. For what I use it for it works great. That’s why I give it a 5 star rating. I feel like if I used it for my whole project it would be harder to use. There is a lot of stuff I like about FilmmakerPro , and I highly recommend it.

Something I’ve noticed, however, Is that the text repositions wrong. I can put a text and move it to the place I want (in the editing part where you can pick your fonts) then when I go to watch it it’s somewhere else. (Words have been cut off). I screen recorded the problem and honestly it’s a bug I really hope gets fixed. I don’t believe I’m doing anything wrong. I still love FilmmakerPro so I hope this can be resolved.

by Jpm6078

I have worked with a lot of desktop video editing equipment over the years. Some of the best software in the industry. I have been completely blown away with the capabilities, simplicity and quality of this product. I have dabbled with mobile device editing software but the capabilities were nowhere near the needs of some of my projects.

Although I do not use this for professional works, I have used it for quick 30 second and 1 minute promos and they have been great! It is getting very close for me to use this professionally.

I primarily use Filmmaker Pro for promos but I also use another program where some of their features are a little bit different and better for specific projects.