It had desktop power squeezed into a giant touchscreen. iPad Pro in 2015, I was immediately smitten. I decided that I’d have to try and get the job done on mobile. Likewise, I couldn’t edit it in the office when I was supposed to be working. I couldn’t sit at our home desktop editing this video, not if I planned to surprise my wife. But there was good reason for me to not use it. Premiere Elements has the power of its namesake, but hides almost all the complexity. The former is a complex and powerful tool for pros (read: not me). Over the years, I’ve used a bunch of different desktop video editing apps, most notably Adobe Premiere and Premiere Elements in Windows. There were a lot of moving parts and, honestly, a lot I didn’t know about what I would need and how I could actually edit it.

I’ve been editing video on and off for decades, but I had never done something at this scale. For my project, I decided to create a wedding video out of available assets (our old wedding photos) and newly shot material.

We ended up with beautiful photos and the memories we could replay in our own heads. When I got married, we couldn’t afford a videographer. You can make something quite awesome with an iPhone, iMovie (for the iPad) and an iPad Pro. For the last few months, I spent hours creating a video celebrating my quarter century of marriage. It’s honestly too personal to show you, but what I learned in the process is not.

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