Apple Updates Clips With Redesigned Interface, Support for iPhone X and iCloud, More

Apple has updated its Clips app with a redesigned interface, support for the iPhone X, Selfie Scenes, new effects and filters, iCloud support, and more.

Clips is a free app that lets you make fun videos to share with friends and family. With a few taps you can create and send a video message or tell a quick story with artistic filters, animated text, music, emoji, and fun stickers featuring characters from Star Wars, Disney, Pixar and more.




What's New In This Version:
Redesigned interface
• Easily navigate through filters, labels, stickers, and emoji in the new Effects browser
• Photo button appears on main capture screen, so you can quickly take a picture at any time
• Tap any filter to see how it looks on your videos and photos before applying it
• Full-screen browsers let you see more of your photo library and posters
• Labeled buttons make it simple to edit Live Titles, add or change filters, trim, mute, and delete
• Updated for Super Retina display on iPhone X

Selfie Scenes on iPhone X
• Uses the TrueDepth camera on iPhone X to remove your background and place you in animated, 360-degree scenes
• Choose from a dozen scenes including sprawling landscapes, abstract art, and outer space
• Transport yourself aboard the Millennium Falcon or Mega-Destroyer from Star Wars: The Last Jedi
• Each scene includes a matching selfie filter that transforms your appearance to make you part of the scene

New stickers and posters
• Add Star Wars characters to your videos with stickers featuring Darth Vader, R2-D2, and more
• Create fun titles with 20 new animated posters, including more than a dozen featuring Star Wars and Mickey and Friends
• Choose from 16 vibrant and retro Apple-designed stickers

New effects and filters
• Choose from four new artistic effects — Watercolor, Charcoal, Sienna, and Indigo — that use advanced style transfer technology to transform images in real time as you record*
• Add warmth, impact, or drama to videos and photos with a selection of new filters from the Camera app
• Use effects and filters while recording, or apply them to photos and videos from your library


iCloud support
• Use iCloud to view and edit all your Clips videos on any of your iOS devices
• Start a video on your iPhone and finish it on your iPad
• Support for Shared iPad in classrooms

Additional Features
• Take a photo; apply stickers, filters, and emoji; then share your picture without having to create a video
• Record Live Titles in dozens of different languages without changing the language of your device
• Slide up on the Record button for hands-free continuous recording
• Copy and paste existing clips to reuse them within a video
• Browse and pick from the full set of emoji in the new Effects browser
• Drag and drop stickers, labels, and emoji from the Effects browser to quickly position them on your photos and videos
• Posters are now grouped into categories for easier browsing
• Choose from 21 new royalty-free soundtracks from indie artists such as DIIV, Elohim, Cherry Glazerr, and Mark Mothersbaugh
• Use 3D Touch on Clips app icon to quickly create a new video from Home screen on iPhone

*iPhone 7 or later or 2017 iPad Pro required for some filters

You can download Clips from the App Store for free.

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