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October 6, 2014
Not perfect, but capable. For Android, the best we’ve seen so far.
I agreed with Amanda Bindel’s review on many points. The blinking, moving ads on the free version are distracting. I wouldn’t recommend the app for student use without paying for the pro version (which luckily isn’t too expensive). As Amanda points out, the interface could be more intuitive. At one point, when I was trying to trim something, I found myself trying to figure out what five or six different button icons represented. It turned out that two of them dealt directly with trimming and the rest of them were providing various ways of navigating the timeline. Couldn’t the latter be accomplished almost entirely by gestures?
After putting the app through its paces for several hours, it crashed one time on my first-generation Moto X. Other than that, it ran smoothly.
Fortunately, intermediate users (and anyone willing to devote a few minutes to getting past the learning curve) won’t find the above to be too much of a problem. And, as Amanda Bindel mentions, Androvid is quite capable in terms of its features. Given that it’s the best Android video editor I’ve tried and that Android is the most widely-used mobile operating system on the planet, I figure Androvid is worth keeping its eyes on.
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