Magix Movie Edit Pro 12

After pondering long and hard over various video editing packages, I chose Magix Movie Edit Pro 15 and I am glad I did. As a relative beginner

I found it easy to navigate and intuitive. If you're looking for similar software, I can recommend this.

Never got the audio to work on my Magix Movie Edit Pro 12. I wasted $60.

Crashes incessantly with "Error Encoding" message halfway through burning a 'mini-hd-dvd', even after downloading latest burn routines from the publisher. My motherboard, processor, audio card, etc., is more than adequate for such a small (27 min) task, I'm advised by those firms. The response time for tech support from the publisher is poor in my opinion (expect as much as three WEEKS), and most of their responses simply quote what is on their FAQs.

Well it's certainly now at it's cheapest on the market, but don't allow the small price to speak for itself.

For those of you looking to add user customized special fx with total control over all apsects of color, contrast, gamma, level of fx, then look no further. It also has it's own built in Audio editor, for adding cool fx to your sounds and music also.

This app was built with 'Style of Movie' in mind, since the 'Fx', 'Effects', Audio, Stabilizing, and 'Visuals', all stand it their own catagory entirely. Each with a window an library of it's own. Allowing the user to change the syle of their movie, with some excellent, and not too corny results.

Improvise, Imagine, it has PIP (Picture in Picture) capability, Black Box, Green Box, and even Alpha Layering filters.

What do you watch on? Take your pick. Magix movie maker has the ability to export to Various Formats, including; WMV, AVI, AVI-DV, and many many more. Choose your Aspect Ratio, Resolution, use templates, or type it in yourself, and preview the movie before export to test the changes.

Are you low on budget, want somthing with all the features or expensive apps?

Buy this, I guarantee you will e satisfied. Ok, so it may take some time to get used to, and yes it has lot's of buttons to press and push. But really, it has everything, and looks and delivers as professional as it sounds.