MAGIX announced that its MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 2004 home video-editing software will combine top-quality professional features with drag and drop ease-of-use. According to the company, Movie Edit Pro will let almost anyone create video masterpieces of once-in-a-lifetime special events, vacations, birthday parties, school plays, and anniversaries. In addition, the program will provide 1,400 special effects and templates, personalized soundtrack creation, multi-track editing, and the ability to burn movies onto DVDs and CDs.

Designed with the first-time user in mind, MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 2004 promises to offers easy to use drag and drop functionality with premium features previously found only in professional video editors—such as batch capturing digital video, automatic scene detection; simplified storyboard, multi-scene overview, in-depth 16-track stereo timeline edit modes; and real-time video and transition effects. Image restoration, motion stabilizing, compositing, and a variety of preset effects and transitions may be applied and immediately viewed onscreen or removed without affecting the original file.

Consumers should be able to record content using the programmable timer, make precise cuts, select from a wide variety of transition effects and even create a custom soundtrack. The special effect templates and 3D transitions may give professional polish to home movies. In addition to split screen and virtual camera panning effects, users can get more creative with the Hollywood-style "blue screen" effect that creates a composite movie from two separate movies. Movie soundtracks can be editing and enhanced with voiceovers, songs and audio effects. The title editor creates rolling credits to polish any movie project.

The integrated CD and DVD authoring utility should create multimedia disc selection menus with intro movies and custom backgrounds that can be played on a home DVD player. MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 2004 imports and exports a variety of formats, including DV-AVI (Type 1 and 2), MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 compressed video and streaming formats including Windows Media 9. It also supports MPEG-4 and DivX if codecs have been installed.

MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 2004 for Windows will be available in early September for $99.99 and includes a special rebate offer for users of competitive products.

8/7/03 www.daytrum.com Editorial Staff

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