Best iMovie for Windows - Free Download iMovie for Your PC

Apple iMovie is now free to download from iTunes and use on latest Mac computers and the latest iOS as well, which is a big new for Apple fans. With this free and intuitive video editing app developed by Apple, you can do some basic editing like trimming, cropping, merging, etc. with ease.

[According to Google, the average monthly search volume of this term “imovie for windows” is about 49,500, so, you’re totally not alone]. But the bad news is that it's only available on Mac OS and iOS currently, so when Mac users like you who need to edit video on Windows PC, they usually choose iMovie alternatives for Windows.

So What should you do if you want video editing software similar to iMovie that can be used to edit videos on Windows 10, windows 8.1, windows 8, windows 7 or Windows Vista to facilitate editing on PC?

There are many free video editing software for Windows in the market, but not all of them can offer the features which iMovie offers to you - Easy-to-use while powerful.

I recommend you try Wondershare Filmora9, which is the best alternative to iMovie on Windows as well as on Mac. It's very simple to use while gives you more controls like color grading, audio mixing that iMovie lacks. One of the best new for the latest Filmora9 is that you can now edit a video project on Windows or Mac either.

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Main features of Wondershare Filmora9

• Support much more formats than iMovie, including AVI, MKV, MOV, MP4, etc.
• Crop, trim, split, rotate, combine your video in clicks.
• Touch up your video with stunning transitions, intro/credits, and sound effects.
• Add more advanced video effects like Mosaic, Face Off, Jump Cut and more.
• Save video in different formats, upload directly to YouTube and Facebook, and burn to DVD.

Why I pick Wondershare Filmora9 as the Best iMovie for Windows Video Editing Software?

You may wonder, why you picked up Filmora9 video editor as the best iMovie for Windows? Below are some reasons that I want to share with you:

1. Intuitive Interface and Clear Editing Working Flow

As one of the best iMovie for Windows alternative, Filmora9 has a similar interface like iMovie, what you see is what you get after launching Filmora9. As you can see from the screenshots above, this iMovie for Windows alternative features not only media library, audio library, title templates and transitions as iMovie, but also effects and elements.

Editing video in this iMovie alternative Filmora9, you just need to import your media clip (video, audio, photo), drag and place it in order in the Timeline panel, do some basic cutting, trimming, color grading or changing video speed to slow down or fast forward the video and more to improve the video quality. So, with Filmora9, you can make a professional-looking video easily even you didn’t use iMovie before.

2. Powerful video editing tools

Besides the classic features like trim, crop, cut, split, rotate, merge, etc., you can also apply more advanced video editing functions like Picture-in-picture, Mosaic, Face Off, Jump Cut and more.

More features like stabilizing the shaky videos or compositing green screen videos can be done easily. You can search on YouTube and found some tutorials about Filmora9. Or you can just subscribe the Filmora Video Editor channel to get the latest news about Filmora9 tips and tricks.

3. Built-in Audio Library [Free-to-Use] and powerful Audio Editing Tools

Filmora9 features a free to use audio library which includes both music tracks and sound effects. There are different genres of music and you can choose from Young & Bright, Tender or Sentimental, Rock, or Folk. (Tell you a secret, personally I like the music Living Pulse –Go Goes under Rock category). While besides the built-in audio assets, you can find more sound effects and music from Filmstocks effects store (of course, you can download the video effects, footage or image and use it on Filmora9 or even After Effects).

About the audio editing feature, let’s make a long story short, what you can do in iMovie, you can achieve it on Filmora9 easily too: adjust audio volume, add fade in and fade out effects, reduce background music, change audio speed or play it reverse, attach audio from video, or even adjust the Equalizer.

4. Animated Title & Text Presets & Templates

Currently, there are more than 100 titles and text templates available on Filmora9, which is far more than the titles presets in iMovie. The advanced text editing feature provides more Customizable settings such as animation, duration, text boards and text shape.

5. Rich video effects

Applying visual effects in video footage will make the clip more professional-look and attractive. The effects built in Filmora9 video editor incudes filters and overlays, you can make use of these effects to create an old film home video or a more ins-like video. Or, you can add background blur filter to the recorded 9:16 video or add VHS and TV static overlay to create TV bad signal like style video.

6. Stylish Transitions for different scenes

Applying transition is easy in iMovie, so does in Filmora9. There are dozens of transitions available which will make the video flow smoothly from clip to clip. Beside the fade in and fade out transitions commonly used in iMovie, you can also add 3D transitions, speed blur transitions, or the transitions designed for slideshow especially.

7. Different import formats support and Wide output options

The best iMovie alternative for Windows Filmora supports virtually any video/photo/audio formats. Just import media files into it, and then you can feel free to edit them in a quick process.

One-click to save your video in all most all the popular formats. You can also transfer your video to different mobile devices, upload to YouTube, Vimeo or Facebook or burn to DVD.

Well, above are the reasons that we chose Filmora9 as the recommended alternative to iMovie for Windows.

As you can see, Filmora9 can do almost all the editing features in iMovie such as edit videos, images or audio, add transitions, filters, texts and titles, or element, or apply animation to video clips, composite green screen footage and more.

Download and have a try or check this video to know how to edit videos in Wondershare Filmora9.