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Summary: Effective and powerful
Review: ... nothing more to say, just try the demo version!
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Summary: SEEMS good?! If I could stop crashing.
Review: But I wouldn't exactly know cuz I never get to use it long enough to really find out.
I've yet to successfully exit the program on my own, without an error closing it up. I do enjoy what I've been able to play with so far tho.I have a brand new computer with 2 hard drives, one dedicated JUST to video editing. I run WinXP Pro(came pre-installed), a pentuium 4, 2.80ghz, 1GB RAM, 1GB Video RAM, 120GB Hard Drive & 80GB Hard drive both 7200 speed with 8MB Cache...so I have all the requirements to run this program yet it still gives me errors & kills itself! My system is pretty clean & new still so there can't really be much of a conflict in software since I haven't installed very much yet but who knows right? I cannot even load a video mpeg2 file that is over 10min. or it completely freezes up.
Also, this program installs A LOT and is pretty big. It doesn't give you a choice of what you want installed like some other programs and thats another thing that concerns me. Pretty minor tho if you have a fairly large drive. I think this could be a great program tho if I could get it running better...(at all?). Has lots of features and it pretty easy to use. I love the audio editor for video files & such tho.
Magix support has not been very helpful in answering me or addressing my problems so I don't know what to do but if you can get this program running smoothly than ya could have a pretty good lil program for the price I think.
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Summary: Excellent Product
Review: I bought this item recenly and it is the best produc for video editing, bought it after much reasearch and tech tv recommendations, I have tried many video editing software programs and this one worked perfect. I have not had one problem with the program no working or system problems.
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Summary: Excellent Product
Review: I bought this item recenly and it is the best produc for video editing, bought it after much reasearch and tech tv recommendations, I have tried many video editing software programs and this one worked perfect. I have not had one problem with the program no working or system problems.
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Summary: It would be great if it worked
Review: I bought this product based on the reviews from this site. While I see how this software certainly could be great (very powerful and easy to use) it failed me in two key areas: 1.) For whatever reason, the AVI files from my Cannon Powershot S400 digital camera are not compatible with the Video Deluxe 2 Software. The Magix support staff, of course, blamed Cannon and provided no help whatsoever, even though the Cannon AVI files work fine with competitor software produced by Roxio and ArcSoft. Considering the popularity of Cannon cameras, this incompatibility is a major liablity. 2.) Again, for whatever reason, the Video Deluxe 2 software crashes my computer every time I attempt to burn a VCD or DVD. Again, the Roxio and ArcSoft software work fine, so the problem is only with Video Deluxe 2. Despite downloading the most recent patch, it is a shame this software is so riddled with bugs. It certainly has tremendous potential if not for the bugs.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: I bought this product on the recommendation of TechTV and have to say I love it! It is incredibly versatile and will do most of what the average consumer wants to do with their home videos. Their support bulletin board is like an open classroom and those who know what they're doing share with those of us who don't! :o) Members also create their own additional transitions and effects and post them for download. I can't say enough good about this product. The only drawback is that it is a little more difficult to master than some of the entry-level video editing packages, but it is DEFINATELY WORTH IT!
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Summary: It does just what I was looking for
Review: I bought this software about a month ago. I have had my eye out for this type of software for sometime. I have a 3 year-old emachines running at 512MHz with 320Mb SDRAM. My video camera is an analog 8mm Sony about 4 years old. I was looking for some software to really spruce up my home movies. I wanted something to add music and transitions. It does this wonderfully and burning it to a VCD is so easy. I have really been inspired by this and I have started taking even more video. I have done several 5 or 6 minute clips of all types. I love it. While it does freeze up occassionally, it has not been nearly so bad as I read on some other reviews. It does NOT, however, import my video. I have had to use an older Dazzle product and software to do this.
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Summary: Don't buy this product!!!!!
Review: I completely agree with the previous reviewer from Belleville IL. I have been trying for two months to capture video from my MiniDV Sony Handycam without success. My computer far exceeds the system requirements, and I have no problems capturing with Windows Movie Maker. However, with Video Deluxe 2.0 Plus, the captured video is choppy and the audio is out of sync. I have tried everything suggested on the small users forum as well as the skimpy FAQ section on their website. Moreover, technical support is slow, surly, and totally unhelpful. I am throwing this useless software in the garbage and this will be the last product I ever buy from Magix.
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Summary: Produces Incorrect AVI-1 File With Wrong 44.1 Audio Stream,
Review: I have to say that, never have I been so disappointed with a product. Furthermore, tech support has been nearly nonexistent and worse yet, they couldn't have been more rude, misleading, and just plain untruthful whether over the phone or at their childish excuse for a support forum. Many people have pointed out obvious bugs with this product and instead of the company dealing with it in an adult, responsible manner, with a promise to fix the product with patch upgrades, they've been threatened, insulted, misled, and verbally assaulted. And that's if they bothered to respond to queries at all which isn't often. This software has had so many bugs from its first release that many of us have wondered if it ever went through any kind of initial testing at all. After several years on the market, it still produces/outputs a nonstandard DV-AVI file with a 44.1k audio sample rate. ALL DV-AVI files should have a standard audio sample rate of 48k. Every DV Camcorder on the market produces an AVI file at this rate. Thus, every time you want to transfer between the DV-AVI camcorder and your computer via Magix, you'll be doing an audio conversion both ways. Needless to say, you're loosing bits with every conversion. The whole purpose of digital video/audio is its ability to create lossless copies. This is simply non-existent with Magix Video Deluxe. There is still the same nagging problem of jittery videos. Magix' answer to this was to tell people to turn off it's sync to beats/stretch to beats option. This is supposed to be an option for adjusting the video and audio lengths and keep them in sync during the process. Why have it there in the first place if it never worked from day one? Instead of telling us to turn it off, why not fix it and offer a patch? You'll find that when exported via mpeg video that there is absolutely no option for changing audio bitrates or resolutions. They're completely grayed out. Further, many people use Sound Blaster sound cards, most of which, prior to Audigy2 had a default bitrate/sample rate of 16/48, which cannot be changed. For those people, the grayed out boxes will forever read 48k and everyone else's will read 44.1 with no option to change them. A Sound Blaster may record at 48k but you should of course be able to convert and play back at any sample rate you want including 44.1 just fine. There is also an option for changing the default movie audio settings including the sample rates; however, the geniuses at Magix didn't bother to put any kind of save button on the menu. In short, you can click in a checkbox for 48, 44.2, 22.5 etc, but there's no way to save the setting! It's beyond absurd! This is just the begging of the problems with this software. Tons of features, all of them useless if you can't export a compliant DV-AVI file. Sloppy thinking, sloppy engineering, and a company bedside manner usually reserved for cavemen. Stay away from this company! You've been warned. ...
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Summary: Great features but annoyingly buggy with large files
Review: I have used this program with mixed success. While I love the multi-track editing feature, the interface took a bit of getting used to. The printed manual was not very helpful at all, and onscreen help was no better. Regardless, I was able to create some very nice digital photo slideshows with dazzling transitions and smooth music scores. I even made a few short videos with synchronized split-screen (PIP) effects from my camcorders. But it takes an embarassing long time to load large movie files, and often crashes from simple video clip manipulation operations such as copy and pasting on large files. Then I have to wait while it reloads the movie clips again, followed by another crash, etc. Because of the bugs and crashes, I found it to be most comfortable creating slideshows and short video clips no more than 5 minutes in length. Any larger projects were simply a waste of time and cursed with crashes. I had little trouble capturing digital video from my Samsung MiniDV (FireWire) camera, or NTSC analog video through my ATI All-In-Wonder card, although it had noise trouble with mono audio sources. I just wish they had spent a lot more time debugging the software before releasing it.
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