This app is geared towards social media. With Clips you can take pictures and or record video, while adding graphics, text, music which all can be quickly shared on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or your preferred social media platform.
Clips is designed to be used with your device held vertically, no need for landscape mode with this app. Also, to record video you must press and hold the record button. For me this took time getting use to. There is also options having the camera facing front or rear, and disabling the microphone.
What really makes this app interesting are the many filters, text, emoji icons and graphic choices. Some of these choices you must be on line to use. The feature I was drawn to the most is the text to speech feature, that places text of what people are saying right in to the video.
To edit your video, you are limited to just trimming, and from my experience that seems to be enough. If you are doing a project that requires more detailed editing, you should stick with iMovie.
In the classroom this app has many uses, from summaries to projects, or a way to show what was learned on a field trip. The speak text feature is a great way to help learners who have difficulty writing, but can explain verbally what they are doing. Videos shot with this feature have the benefit of being ADA compliant, a nice touch.
To see an example of Clips being used in class CLICK HERE