Spark Camera & Video Editor 4+

I started using Spark 4 years ago. It was exactly what I wanted and imagined - a simple video app that can help me document my travels. The simplicity of the interface makes a world of difference! You simply film along, a few seconds at a time, your trip, and in the end easily turn it into a music video that you can look back on. However, at the time the app was far from perfect. It didn’t have transitions so the video always cut off in an abrupt way. But what I love the most about this app is that the people behind it keep improving it over the years! I wrote to them and right away they wrote me back this nice email telling me about new functions they added to help me achieve a smoother fade-in and fade-out. I also told them my problems with sound transition. And literally the next update came with just the functions I needed. I can’t say it was my suggestion that prompted this, but I do know that they genuinely listen to their users’ feedback and are making the app better all the time! For that reason alone, Spark is so worth supporting because its makers genuinely care about how us users feel and they incorporate our feedback. Keep up the good work Team Spark! I now have over 80 videos of travel memories to look back on, I look forward to making many many many more ❤️

I am probably a greenhorn when it comes to the video editors. This review is focused on that fact. If you are experienced with two or more other production apps for posting short video content on social media, this app may not have features that suit you. These might be overlays, masking, higher level of title and text controls, such as animated or active morphing, or photo and video manipulation, such as exposure and integrated color retouching. To be clear, the preset color filters are many and super easy to view by swiping the screen to pan thru the entire set while not changing your window. The text, duration, recorder and added sound controls, and clip features are fabulous for their easy access and control. No pull downs, no hidden features and the app has a unassuming help feature that does its job. If you are looking for a fast editor that doesn't tie you up with tons of toggles and selections, this app is great. Movie clips around within the movie stream: easy and fast! You don't any mysteries about the flow. I can see this getting better because these people were thinking "user-friendly" more than complex. It does what's it is supposed to do; produce good movies short and sweet.

So it must be. There are few things I would like to change or improve. First of all, I would like to be able to lock down one setting in the beginning. For some reason my recordings are either sideways or there in half speed. I want to set up my camera to record only one thing, high definition in a landscape mode, and I don’t want it to ever change, and for some reason it’s not that easy I know that the developer will probably give me easy solutions to avoid this like holding my camera in a certain position or touching a button ahead of time, but if I’m mentioning this, it’s because other cameras don’t force me to think before I shoot. I never shoot vertical so I’d love to be able to never have the option for it to automatically shoot vertical just because I’m holding the camera vertical or just slightly off angle.