Complete Guide on Developing Video Editing App, Cost & Features

Smartphone has become an integral part of our lives. During the pandemic period, the smartphone is the only medium to stay connected with the world outside, do shopping, and get entertained.

Specifically from the entertainment perspective, watching videos on a smartphone is highly preferred these days. Users preferred to watch product videos, educational videos, movies, documentaries, and more on their devices. The end of 2020 witnessed 79% of the total internet traffic came from the video source.

All of this gives rise to video editing apps to edit footage without needing any computer or laptop to transfer the files.

In this blog, we will be discussing everything related to video-on demand app development covering the following few points:

* Importance of Video Editing Applications

* Types of Video Editing Apps

* Things to Consider while Developing Mobile Apps

* Specific Features to Add in Video Editing Applications

* Cost of Developing Video Editing App

So, without any further adieu, let’s get started.

Why Video Editing App is Important for You?

There is a wide section of internet users who are enthusiastic about creating videos for social media, travel-related content, sports footage, and something like that. For them, a well-defined video editing app has of utmost importance to just shoot, edit, and post wherever they want.

Also, enterprises require video marketing models to advertise their products or services through a visual medium. Thus, to satisfy their needs as well, a robust video editing app does a remarkable job of editing fine visuals while on the go.

Different Types of Video Editing Apps Available Today

* Video editing applications

* Video recording applications

* Recording & editing applications

* Screen recording and video editing apps

Names of few popular video editing apps:

* Quick

* Splice

* Filmora

* iMovie

And, the list goes on.

Things to Consider While Developing Video Editing Applications

There are a plethora of video editing apps available these days. Each having its purpose, a unique idea, targeted audience, and specific features to meet personal or business requirements.

Therefore, you must understand few things before getting into the video-on demand app development process.

1. Generate an Idea

A unique idea that can change everything. This is the stage when you need to think carefully about what to offer as different from other competitors. Thus, get into research mode, study your competitions, do market research, and validate your idea to move forward.

2. Define your Audience

Your video editing apps falls flat if it fails to meet the targeted audience requirements. Thus, it is important to know your user’s preference. Know about your target users based on age, location, interests, and income levels. Also, refer to different QA sites like Quora to understand more about current trends and your audience.

3. Features to Include

Editing features are the whole and soul of an application. You need to think and research carefully what to add and what not to. For your reference, here we have a few must-have features to add to the app like adding many video files, audio tracks, frames, filters, social media sharing buttons, textures, and an automatic save feature.

4. Monetization Model

How are you going to make money with your unique concept of video editing app? For this, you can first consider a freemium model where some features of the apps are free and then users need to pay for advanced features. Additionally, subscription, in-advertising, and paymium are monetization models to consider.

5. Social Media Integration

This is an important feature to consider. A maximum of video bloggers and advertising companies share videos on social platforms for maximum traffic. Thus, you need to consider social media app development as well to bring the functionality of single tap social sharing.

Features to Add in Video Editing Mobile Apps

1. Application Panel: There are mainly two panels in a video editing application i.e. Admin Panel (For you) and User Panel (For users). Also, for both the panels features are altogether different and must to add within the app.

2. Payment Gateway: Payment integration is a feature to link your app with a third-party payment gateway. It allows users to flexibly pay for the premium version using different digital payment modes.

3. Real-Time Analytics: Manage all your user’s data with the help of real-time analytics. This feature helps you to gather information related to the total number of users including free and premium ones, counts of downloads, and more.

4. Sound Effects: Video editing is incomplete without having appropriate music or sound effect. Thus, you need to add the feature of importing any sound from the user’s device along with an in-house music library.

5. Filters and Stickers: Some of the popular video editing apps have stickers and filters to make the  video more interactive and personal. Thus, you can add such features as well to engage more and more users.

Estimated Cost of Video Editing Mobile App Development in India

Now, comes to the final stage of the blog and i.e. to discuss the estimated cost of video-on demand app development. There is no specific price for an estimated price of developing a video editing application. Still, factors like for which platform (Android, iOS, or both), country-wise, manpower distributed on the project, and diverse features to add need to be considered. 

Final Note

Use the best video editing apps to create and share amazing content to increase subscribers and fan following. Add robust features, much-needed functionality, and a social sharing button to give tough competition to market rivals. Thus, to help you create an amazing video editing mobile app, count on Mobi India, as we are a leading company in the field of mobile app development in India.