Loopster iPad App

Shoot, edit, download and share videos with Loopster app

Do you always wanted to give a professional touch to the video clips which you shot at random occasions and making it something cute, surprising and beautiful? Video editing application Loopster can be an extremely useful tool which allows the average person the ability to trim your clips down to size, add a soundtrack or captions, apply transitions or special effects, and add bubbles. It will serve the purpose of the amateur videographers to do HD video editing, with clean graphics and smartly designed menus. Here’s our review:  

Setup and Interface 

Loopster home

The app's 112 MB is not large by iOS standards and much smaller than Apple's iMovie for iPad ($4.99, 3.5 stars), which takes up a massive 496MB. On launching the app, you’ll see an attractive movie-film-styled home screen, which is the starting point of opening, editing and sharing the videos or photos that you want to edit. The upper portion of the screen is divided into two equal halves, which is where you feed the input (left side) and view the final output (right side). On the top left side, there is an option to add media files like photos and videos. Down below is the timeline of the movie you wish to edit.

Process

To begin the process, you need to import/add a video clip to your movie timeline and double-click the video thumbnail to import it into the program. The video will appear in a strip form in the TimeLine section. Here you’ll also see a red line which represents the playhead and the image shown top-right of the screen is the frame that the playhead's over. This playhead is stationary. You move your project by dragging it to the left or the right. Here you need to decide exactly what you want the length of the video (the starting point and the end point). This you can do by tapping the yellow icon appearing in the video strip. After you select the desired length of the video, the rest will be chucked off. At the same time, you can also select the audio quality you want in the audio. It is also easy to check the desired output as the edited version will appear in the top right corner section called Loopster Demo. The current allows 10 minutes videos in its editing section and gives you the option to connect with your Facebook account as well as post it to YouTube.

                                                        

Sound Effects

Loopster offers over 600 high quality sound effects courtesy of SFXSource.com. They can be found in the Audio tab in the editor under "Sound Effects"

Bubbles

When you're editing videos or photos, one way to include humor is to add speech bubbles above the heads of people, animals or other creatures. In Loopster, you can do that using the text option in the timeline section along with choosing the text background.

Title screens

Every now and then, you may feel the urge to add text to your video. The text can appear as titles, subtitles, captions, overlays, as credits, or a watermark on your video.

 

Slow Motion

Loopster is a fun way to add slow motion effects to your video. You can choose any segment of the video to make it in slowmotion. Users can take the video from real time to slow motion and back to real time without cuts or slicing makes the new iPad version the ideal tool for personal video customization.

 

Rotate Your Project

You can easily fix the video shot sideways or upside down.

  

Who’s it for

Loopster is for amateur photographers who want to share their experiences right away with friends and family.

Cost

Free at the Apple iTunes Store. It is compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 6.0 or later.

Bottom line

Loopster works. It offers all the necessary tools for creativity that will make it using more enjoyable and fun. There’s no question the app will make a great little video out of your footage. If you want to share your day out with friends through video, then Loopster is highly recommended.