Rating: 
Summary: Excellent program, mediocre documentation
Review: After installing this program, I was able to (fairly quickly) capture video and sound off of my camcorder, do some basic editing in the program, add music in the background, and save into a file to make a Video CD. I am now starting to play around with the titles, subtitles, and sound / video effects available in the program. I've created videos up to an hour long, and I haven't hit any bugs yet. Compared to other video editing packages reviewed here, this is quite an accomplishment.The only reason I knock this down to four stars is that the documentation glosses over key areas, like how to output your work. For example, there are perhaps a dozen options related to outputing video to an MPEG file, but the manual only has *two lines* of text devoted to the subject (not including the page explaining how to upgrade your MPEG-2 encoder). I've ended up outputting video as DV-AVI and using TMPGEnc (freeware) to convert to MPEG. If Magix would plug the holes in the manual this would definitly be a 5-star program, esp. considering the price.
Rating: 
Summary: Not worth it!
Review: For editing this program is great. User friendly interface, etc. After that...Try getting help. The manual is absolutely terrible. The whole point in buying this program was to make a few VCD's. The manual says about 3 words on this subject. It does not even talk about some of the most important aspects of the program. It was obviously not written for the beginner. Website help? Forget it. Worse then the manual. Phone help? The toll free # listed gets you to the secretary. She's in charge of giving you the 900#.
Don't waste your money or time (I sure did!)
Rating:
Summary: Not worth it!
Review: For editing this program is great. User friendly interface, etc. After that...Try getting help. The manual is absolutely terrible. The whole point in buying this program was to make a few VCD's. The manual says about 3 words on this subject. It does not even talk about some of the most important aspects of the program. It was obviously not written for the beginner. Website help? Forget it. Worse then the manual. Phone help? The toll free # listed gets you to the secretary. She's in charge of giving you the 900#.
Don't waste your money or time (I sure did!)
Rating: 
Summary: Lies! Lies! Lies!
Review: I bought this software for one reason: It indicated that it could import lots of file types. Much to my horror I can't open anything! NOTHING! Not .mov files, not any .mpeg files, not .wm files, not .avi files. It keeps telling me "bad file type." After having numerous files custom rendered off an avid system I was able to open them with Adobe Premier but NOT with this program. I wanted to scream each time. Magix got my money but I will always remember the name "Magix" and never EVER buy another product from this quack company again.
Rating:
Summary: Lies! Lies! Lies!
Review: I bought this software for one reason: It indicated that it could import lots of file types. Much to my horror I can't open anything! NOTHING! Not .mov files, not any .mpeg files, not .wm files, not .avi files. It keeps telling me "bad file type." After having numerous files custom rendered off an avid system I was able to open them with Adobe Premier but NOT with this program. I wanted to scream each time. Magix got my money but I will always remember the name "Magix" and never EVER buy another product from this quack company again.
Rating: 
Summary: Great Product
Review: I disagree with some of the other reviews listed here. This product rocks. Remember this software retails for $49.00, it is not a $500.00 program. Video Delux has every feature that I wanted and more. It works great with a FireWire card and Digital Camcorder. I have used it with home movies, stills, and music and it does a great job. Before I selected Video Delux, I demo'd 4 other products including Adobe Premiere 6.0. While Video Delux is not of the calibre of Premiere, it comes close and with the price difference, (Premiere runs $400.00 +) you can't go wrong.
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Summary: This was so great, I upgraded!
Review: I enjoyed learning how to use Magix' Video Deluxe in version 1 and liked it so much I bought version 2. Version 2 includes DVD menus and authoring, which version 1 does not. If you don't need DVD authoring - if you can make do with emailing your videos, posting them online, or sending back to your camera for VHS, this is an excellent program.
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Summary: Buy this program!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: I first passed on this program because of the price. I thought, it couldn't possably do much for [$$$]. After Tech-TV tested it, and recommended it, I downloaded the demo and was amazed how great it is. I have Movieshaker and it will only make a 9 min movie. I have Ulead and MGI, both crash on Xp often and capture is not always good. This program supports my DV-8 and sends it back to the camcorder over my firewire.
I found the manual to be helpful but I am not a beginner. Others have complained that it is not enough (I don't agree).
This program does a lot:
Picture in picture
both video and audio effects
unlimited movie length
16 tracks of workspace
superimpose video tracks
alfa channels
blue and green screan
audio and video cleaning
song wizard will make a soundtrack to any langth you want
export to several formats
export to the web in Real Player or WMF for modem or broadband
includes video clips to learn with
and More!!!! Keep in mind that this Company has horrible tech support.
phone support will cost you $3.00 for the first min $1.50 for the rest.
Free support is e-mail only and the service is slow and not very helpful!
Rating:
Summary: unsupported program
Review: I purchased this program in the hopes of being able to edit some older video material I had, and I have been disappointed to the point of abandonment that I have not been able to get the job done. While the program appears to have all the right editing features, clever transitions, easy "drag and drop" manipulations, and multiple tracks for video and audio sources, I have been unable to import the video material using the ATI Rage Fury Pro capture card on my motherboard. When I attempted to get technical help, I was unable to make any "live" contact using the USA number provided and was referred to an email service from Europe. I did receive a response from Holland and one from Germany as well, but even those technicians were unable to come close to solving the problems. Video processing is an art in evolution and there are many formats and other technical issues to consider. There seems to be a host of compaitbility problems out there and unless you are a real whiz at that stuff and can solve your own problems, this product will disappoint you because of the VERY sketchy support. I ended up getting a G4 powerbook with iMovie out of frustration. I think that PC video editing has a long way to go and that this program does not advance the state of the art.
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Summary: Easy to use video editing software
Review: I recommend this product to anyone because it's simple to use, inexpensive, useful and you get high quality results. I purchased video deLuxe because my brother owns one and showed me how to use it. We're both using it for the holidays. He emailed me a beautifully edited video of our
Thanksgiving dinner with the whole family and his voice is narrating parts. There's running text with funny comments and background music he picked from his CD collection. It is wonderful what you can do with this program. There are transitions and video effects and editing tools that
help you to turn your home videos into high quality timeless family classics. I will use it for my families Christmas videos this year. You could, for example, send a video greeting via email to everyone in the family - all just with a few clicks. So far I didn't have a problem bringing in video from my video camera. It works great for me!
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