Editing is a crucial activity whether you’re documenting a straightforward event—like a birthday party—or producing a complex music video. While mastering the art of editing can take a lifetime, today’s editing apps make it easy to handle the fundamentals such as choosing shots, rearranging them, trimming the shots, and adding transitions, visual effects, and sound.  iMovie covers the basics, and its price—$0.00—is appealing. But if you want greater artistic control and if you’re in the iOS world, a good choice is LumaFusion ($20). Too preview the software, take a look a few online tutorials. Here are a few of our favorites:

Quick Start Tutorial for LumaFusion (2016-12-21, 5 minutes): This one is from Luma Touch, the company that created the software.

Luma Fusion Guide Part 1 Basic Project Features (2017-7-19, 12 minutes): This tutorial has a relaxed pace, making it is especially good for novices.  It’s helpful that you can see the editor’s hands controlling the options. This approach adds clarity. Another plus is that the tutorial’s author explains why certain options matter, for example, the benefit of choosing the 16:9 aspect ratio.

LumaFusion Basic Tutorial (2017-5-20, 14 minutes): The narrator gives valuable background information on various techniques, for example, why a given choice will affect upload time.

Luma Fusion-Complete Tutorial  (2016-12-25, 18 minutes): This tutorial covers a lot of ground, but because the pacing is fast, you may need to view it more than once. The narrator’s voice is robotic but clear.

HOW TO MAKE GREAT LOOKING INSTAGRAM VIDEOS USING LUMA FUSION!! (2018-5-3, 17 minutes): High energy, fun, and very practical.

LumaFusion 3rd Party Tutorials We Like (2018-5-13 updated, 9 tutorials): If the app’s producers like this set of LumaFusion tutorials, that’s a good recommendation.