LumaFusion 5.0 Review | Should You Upgrade?

LumaFusion 5.0 has dropped with some free updates, and an optional Speed Ramping upgrade! I put all these new features to the test and I have a lot of thoughts. Watch this LumaFusion 5 Review and Tutorial before you pay for the upgrade!

If you're curious about my iPad setup, here's what I'm using:

00:00 LumaFusion 5.0 Review
00:35 What is Speed Ramping?
01:11 Luma Fusion Speed Ramping Tutorial
05:06 Advanced Keyframing in Luma Fusion Tutorial
07:45 Free New Features in LumaFusion 5
09:32 Luma Fusion 5 Review

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[TimelyAdventure]

Love the business model. Would say it’s a perfect one. Hope people continue to support Luma.

[DailyOrah]

Cmon lumafusion, let’s get back our dominance in the mobile editing market. I’m tired of transporting my projects to CapCut to add other basic features such as autocaptions, effects, filters etc. I love Lumafusion but it’s sad that the development has gotten behind the other mobile editing tools.

[InTheVise]

Great video! I use LumaFusion for all my editing work, and of course I bought the speed ramping add-on. I like the app, and it can handle 4K 10-bit video with no problem on the new M4 iPad Pro. Also a big fan of one time purchase and no subscription model. But I really feel the app needs a big upgrade on the text and title part. It is so outdated and looks very unprofessional.

[Mr_Limey]

I think the way they designed easing for speed ramping is amazing and I appreciate that it’s more powerful than what you can find on other mobile apps or most desktop apps :D

[TheGrouch]

Great, thanks, been looking for a tutorial since I purchased speed ramping on the weekend! Best on the net! Cheers

[JeffreySutton]

Great video! I’m really liking your channel. Yes, I love this business model of purchasing the upgrades if we want and not being forced into a subscription.

[Oldaker]

Great review. Answered all my questions.

[DavidStang]

I’m just starting out with LumaFusion after having purchased it when it was around $20 awhile ago. This video really helps! I do have a question about the effects panel and the distort and gains windows. Tapping them doesn’t seem to do anything. How do you use those?

Also it seems like this speed ramping feature should have been included in such a robust app.

And as for your “complaint” about the timeline not being accessible In the edit screen I agree. I can see where they can be overlayed to show the end result of your editing in realtime but in a lowered opacity as to not get in there way. 😃

[dennisdragan]

Nicely presented and very informative! I agree that the “Free” stuff is very useful. I did pay for the Speed Ramping… I’ve noticed the shortcomings you mentioned, but for now I’m learning to live with them. You’re correct… the Key Frame Editor is GREAT. Thanks for your presentation👍👍!

[cotyoran]

Speed ramping is good for Luma finally but they still restrict us with 6x constant speed. Bit frustrating. I solve this with other apps but that is not a good solution to me. For example when you have a long drone footage, 6x stays little bit slow. And i want 3d text tracking feature very much from Luma like pro apps do

[Richard_Broom_Photography]

Many thanks Jen. I don't use LumaFusion (cranky old iPad) but useful and interesting to see what other companies are developing.

[Shamek]

I hope to add text effects and video filters like other programs

[MartinHarvey]

Thanks for another excellent review. I have a love/hate relationship with Luma. Part of my problem is I don't edit many videos (lots of photography using LR and Photoshop etc. - and love to do editing on the iPad and finish later on the iMac - e.g. LRM and LR). As I don't do video editing often I have to work out, to a degree how, to use Luma when I use it. What I'd really like is an iPad app that's decently featured, that's intuitive, and I can sync with OSX and finish there. BTW I do own Final Cut Pro on the iMac! What I don't want though is have to spend a lot of time learning new app(s). Maybe I'll stop grumbling and muddle my way through Luma!

[PritishBharti]

Color correction disappears during speed changing because you are changing a fundamental property of a footage so you get shown the source clip and not the color corrected one which is applied on top of that. So it’s not a bug I believe.

[FunFlyingPilot]

Great video/review of LumaFusion 5.0 and Speedramp option. I have only had update a couple days and it functionally seems to work ok on my iPad Pro, but not flawlessly. I have had it "hang up" loading; after closing down and reopen it seems to work. I personally feel that they have tried to do "too much" with upgrade. I had been looking forward to a simple "speedramp" option. It is not simple - made it far more complicated than need be. (my opinion - and only one that counts to me). I also was looking for a much more powerful speedramp (faster than 6X). I have figured a "work around", by editing and saving the ramped clip (reopen and apply again) - to obtain much faster speeds. To have to do that is a big disappointment to me.

I have no issue with the one time optional upcharge (a comparatively modest charge). In fact I like it! They have opted not for the subscription type model; which I would immediately reject had they gone that route. I am sure that I will learn and get use to the new options, but again does seem somewhat overly complex.

[Duskydog]

Worth the $20 for the work they put in, and its not a subscription

[Big-GVideo]

Hello Jenn. Love the channel. i have LumaFusion and have the export to XML (for FCP). Do you know if speed ramping is present in the XML export?

[isacferreira]

Now I agree, luma must change the open windows thing. About v5; no animation ? No new text? If you make the count, finalcut iPad is better

[mendodave]

I wish FCPX had a good key framing setup like Luma fusion. Maybe it’s just the way I learned to do key framing but I. cant tell where my keyframes are at in FCPX. It’s very confusing. Luma Fusion has always had a solid Keyframe “manager” and for a mere $20 it really takes it to the next level. I like just adding things on when I need it. It’s a good model. I’ve got about $120 sunk into Luma Fusion since I’ve started using it about 5 years ago. Most of that is Story Blocks.

What I do with speed ramping instead of switching back and forth with a shortened clip is just make my speed ramp cut the way I want it, and work that section of video around it to make it work in the time line. There are various things you can do to make that happen.

[orbbb]

I love the new speed ramp in LumaFusion, and I wish Apple would adopt something like this. I fins speed ramping in FCP a bit of a pain in the bootie. Hell it is easier to speed ramp in the photos app on my iPhone than in FCP.