Hi Alzara, it really depends on your project and what you’re imagining (and how your current project looks like). If you need a lot of effects as you described, a professional editor might be able to improve it a lot! In that case, someone with experience in Adobe After Effects is probably the best person to ask.

Your article gives me some ideas for using different programs in the future, but it didn’t answer my primary question. I am not a professional editor, but can edit things for my music project when I need to using iMovie. However, I am confused as to whether the exported files from iMovie are going to look as professional once they’re uploaded to youtube, all other things being equal. For example, after shooting various scenes for a music video, we decided to make our own edit in iMovie so that it could be exactly how we wanted it. We added different effects to different scenes so that it would look less video like, but are not necessarily married to those particular effects – it’s just that was all that was available in iMovie. Before we release the video officially, we were wondering whether we need to now take all the footage to a professional editor that uses something like Premiere along with our draft as a reference reference so that the final output will be as high quality as possible. Does it make a dramatic difference?

Thanks so much

Best,
Meng