How to Speed up Video on iPhone More than 2x in iMovie

iMovie, with many editing features, such as cropping, splitting, adding music, layering audio, applying effects, etc., is a great video editing app for Apple users. It also can be used as a video speed controller to slow down or speed up a video on iPhone. But iMovie for iOS only offers the speed adjustment ranging from 1/8 to 2x. Then, what if you want to apply a fast forward effect by more than 2x on an iPhone video?

If you want to know how to increase video speed more than 2X in iMovie on iPhone, you've come to the right place! This post shares 3 practical methods for you to make your iMovie project faster than 2X.

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Method 1 Speed up More than 2X in iMovie by Saving It & Editing Again

One of the direct ways to make your iMovie project faster than 2X is just speed it up to 2x and save the video, then editing it again and again until you've reached your desired speed.

Step 1

Launch iMovie app on your iPhone and open a movie project that you want to speed up more than 2X.

Step 2

Click the video in the timeline and tap the Speed button, which looks like a half clock symbol, to reveal the yellow Speed slider.

Make iMovie Faster Than 2X by Saving It & Editing Again

Step 3

Move the slider right to increase the video speed to 2x and tap "Done" on the top left corner. Want to speed up different parts of your video clip? Simply tap outside the current range or tap Add in the inspector, and then drag the slider for the new range to the right to speed up that portion of the video.

Make iMovie Faster Than 2X by Saving It & Editing Again

Step 4

Now you can save the video and begin editing it again and again in iMovie until you get the speed you want.

Well, you should find that doing this way could take a lot of work and time exporting, especially if you're working on a large project. Then check another way below to make iMovie faster than 2X without exporting repeatedly.

Method 2 Speed up More than 2X in iMovie without Exporting Repeatedly

When you're going to speed up a small section of a long video in iMovie on iPhone, you have to keep re-saving the desired section you want to speed up over and over and then re-import the new version again and again until you reach the desired speed, which could make you spend a lot of time waiting to output this long video again and again. So, here is a much faster workaround for you to speed up more than 2x in iMovie without exporting repeatedly.

You can simply refer to the video tutorial or check the simple steps below:

Speed up More than 2X in iMovie

This is a nifty workaround to make iMovie faster than 2X but really not ideal, because the quality that part of the video will be lower quality than others. Looking another way? Just keep reading.

Method 3 Make iMovie Faster Than 2X with an Online iMovie Alternative

Besides using the two ways above to increase the video speed and repeat until you get the wanted speed, we'll introduce another easy and efficient way to make iMovie faster than 2X - using a third-party video speed editor, like FlexClip.

FlexClip offers a flexible video speed editor that supports adjust video in a wide range: speed up to 8x or slow down to 0.5x even 0.2x. Moreover, additional editing tools and various built-in resources & effects to help you perfect the video freely. Simply check the steps below and learn how to make iMovie faster than 2X in FlexClip.

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Step 1

Upload the video you want to speed up from your iPhone, and then drag it to the timeline.

Make iMovie Faster Than 2X with FlexClip - Upload

Step 2

Go to the Speed panel on the top menu and drag the sidebar to speed up the entire video more that 2x. If you want to change speed of your portion video to make velocity edit, you can make use of its Curve Speed feature to speed up or slow down the video freely.

Make iMovie Faster Than 2X with FlexClip - Adjust Speed

Step 3

Once done, you can make more edits to level up your video, and then export the faster forward video to your computer or post it on your social media or share with others with a click link.

Make iMovie Faster Than 2X with FlexClip - Edit More

By the way, FlexClip helps you do so much more than speed up a video with its additional powerful editing tools, such as extract audio from any video, combine your Zoom recordings, add subtitles automatically, and make more cool edits to make professional-looking videos for YouTube, Instagram stories, or any social media platform. Just have a free try now!

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