Creating a movie with Magic Movie

Apple has understood that creative storytelling is a more jazzy prospect than stringing clips together and is, therefore, a more popular starting point for editors. Accordingly, they’ve developed Magic Movie and Storyboard mode, both of which take some of the effort and guesswork out of creating a coherent and concise project. Magic Movie promises to “create a video for you – no video editing required,” taking the photos and videos in your Photos app and using machine learning to cut them to music it selects. With this as a foundation, you’re free to begin adding more meaning and context to your video with titles and filters.

To make it easier to follow along with this chapter, we will be using the Chapter 2: Berlin Album files within the Chapter 2 folder in the .zip file, which you can use to create a Magic Movie – a folder of photos and videos from a trip to Berlin. Magic Movie is built for exactly this...