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- Connection and introduction wizard
- Also supports AVCHD camcorders
- Very clearly laid-out user interface with large buttons
- Extensive beginner's manual with step-by-step instructions
- Numerous help functions as video clips
- Export to DVD, YouTube, and as files
- Practical project archiving on DVD and hard drive
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Product Description
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Video editing has never been easier!
MAGIX Video easy is the first video editing program for the whole family. It's so easy to use that even beginners without any prior skills will be able to design breathtaking videos in just a short time. Transform recordings of family celebrations, vacations, or special events into video DVDs or present your videos on the Internet with ease. Give it a try - you won't be disappointed!
Probably the easiest video editing program in the world.
MAGIX Video easy was developed with the help of numerous testers. An innovative wizard helps during connection of the camera to the PC. Numerous video clips explain respective functions as they are used. The manual includes easy-to-understand instructions and extra-large images to enable the quickest start possible with the program.
Only MAGIX Video easy can offer this
- Connection and introduction wizard
- Automatic video editing wizard
- Clearly laid-out user interface with large buttons
- Extensive beginner's manual with step-by-step instructions
- Numerous help functions as video clips
- Export to DVD, YouTube, and as files
- Practical project archiving on DVD and hard drive
- Also supports AVCHD camcorders
Impress your friends and family with your favorite recordings!
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Record
- Import videos from any source
- Supports all conventional camcorders
- Also for AVCHD video cameras
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Design
- Remove unwanted scenes
- Add text and transitions
- Select DVD menus and burn
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Experience
- On your PC: Enjoy finished videos directly
- On TV: With menus for any DVD player
- On the Internet: Present movies worldwide
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Connection and introduction wizard
A practical wizard helps with the first steps, from connecting the video camera to recording your videos.
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Automatic video editing wizard
It just doesn't get any easier: Select your video, add text and music, and your movie is finished - including great transitions!
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Extensive beginner's manual with step-by-step instructions
No technical concepts! The easy to understand and richly illustrated manual helps you step-by-step during editing.
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Numerous help functions as video clips
Helpful video clips are available to you directly within the program to explain how the desired function is used.
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Export to DVD, YouTube, and as files
Burn your movies with a menu onto DVD, present them online, or save your video clips as a file.
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Practical project archiving on DVD and hard drive
Projects aren't just securely archived on DVD or your hard drive, they can also be conveniently edited at any time.
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Also supports AVCHD camcorders
With MAGIX Video easy, you can directly edit and burn AVCHD recordings directly. Only somewhat more expensive programs offer this otherwise.
Clearly laid-out user interface with large buttons
The program interface has been reduced to essential, extra large functional elements to make it free of confusing symbols and unnecessary functions.
Minimum system requirements
- Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon, 1 GHz and up
- 512 MB RAM
- 400 GB free hard disk memory and a DVD drive for program installation
- Graphics card with a screen resolution of at least 1024 x 768
- Sound card
- Intel Pentium 4 starting at 3 GHz with hyperthreading, or dual core with at least 1.3 GHz
- 1 GB RAM (2 GB or more recommended)
- DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card, mind. 128 MB graphics card memory, and Pixelshader 2.0, ATI X300 or higher, NVIDIA GeForce 6600 or better
- Intel Core 2 quad processor with 2.66 GHz
- 3 GB RAM
- ATI Radeon HD 3000 series or higher with 512 MB VRAM
- Free USB or Firewire connection on PC (for DV and HDV camcorders)
- USB camcorder (DVD/hard disk/memory card) and webcams
- Video, TV, or graphics cards with video input
- DVD burner
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Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
27 of 28 people found the following review helpful
This is a very simple, very easy but also very stable package aimed at a complete novice with no previous video editing experience or skills. It will help a beginner to quickly put together a video without spending too much time on the editing process.
Video Easy will quickly import files from a camera/camcorder or hard drive onto the storyboard/timeline and here it is possible to undertake simple editing tasks such as adjust the colour, cut individual clips, rearrange the order and add titles and transitions. Video clips and photos can be combined but photos remain static with no option to pan them - so they look out of place in a video production.
The 'automatic movie editing' option will produce a video from your selected raw video clips and/or photos, add a backing track if you wish (combining this with live sound from your video clips or overwriting the live sound) and export them to a file (restricted to WMV or MPEG2 only), upload to YouTube or Magix own online filesharing site or to DVD using the included templates.
I would recommend it as a package suitable for a beginner to video editing who is looking to produce simple videos or DVDs quickly without getting too involved in editing but wants to quickly produce usable results to share with friends and family. More advanced or creative users would find it too restrictive for their needs.
It would be invalid to rate Video Easy against more sophisticated packages so my rating of 4 stars is based on its appeal to its novice-user market whom I'm sure it won't disappoint.
Video Easy will quickly import files from a camera/camcorder or hard drive onto the storyboard/timeline and here it is possible to undertake simple editing tasks such as adjust the colour, cut individual clips, rearrange the order and add titles and transitions. Video clips and photos can be combined but photos remain static with no option to pan them - so they look out of place in a video production.
The 'automatic movie editing' option will produce a video from your selected raw video clips and/or photos, add a backing track if you wish (combining this with live sound from your video clips or overwriting the live sound) and export them to a file (restricted to WMV or MPEG2 only), upload to YouTube or Magix own online filesharing site or to DVD using the included templates.
I would recommend it as a package suitable for a beginner to video editing who is looking to produce simple videos or DVDs quickly without getting too involved in editing but wants to quickly produce usable results to share with friends and family. More advanced or creative users would find it too restrictive for their needs.
It would be invalid to rate Video Easy against more sophisticated packages so my rating of 4 stars is based on its appeal to its novice-user market whom I'm sure it won't disappoint.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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I am an absolute novice when it comes to both video and video editing, and to tell the truth, I don't have much of an attention span when it comes to this sort of thing either.
I thought Magix Video was very easy to and to set up, and I thought the info on the box about PC requirements for different format qualities was great. My PC is getting on, but it did meet the basic specs requirement and allowed me to do a fair job of producing something that looked good and was entertaining to watch.
If like me, you want something that will do that, is easy to use (lots of wizards) and doesn't require you to spend hours reading manuals, then this is the editing suite for you.
I may only use it a few times a year, but as the learning curve is shallow, and the results flatter meagre skills, I would be happy to recommend.
Ideal for YouTube too!
I thought Magix Video was very easy to and to set up, and I thought the info on the box about PC requirements for different format qualities was great. My PC is getting on, but it did meet the basic specs requirement and allowed me to do a fair job of producing something that looked good and was entertaining to watch.
If like me, you want something that will do that, is easy to use (lots of wizards) and doesn't require you to spend hours reading manuals, then this is the editing suite for you.
I may only use it a few times a year, but as the learning curve is shallow, and the results flatter meagre skills, I would be happy to recommend.
Ideal for YouTube too!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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This program takes the approach that you might want to concentrate on editing your video rather than learning how to use a complicated program, and it really is very easy to use. You just load in your video clips (and photos too if you want), split them into scenes, delete the bits you don't want, move them around into the order you want, add crossfades or other transitions, add a background audio track and titles, and save the resulting video. You can also save the part-edited project so you can continue editing later. If all that sounds complicated, it isn't really. This program makes all the complexities straightforward. It has a row of thumbnails along the bottom showing your video clips in the order they will play, and there's a window above to preview the video, so you can see exactly what you're going to get.
The buttons really are big and friendly. There are a few controls to adjust the video image - brightness, contrast, saturation and an extremely intuitive colour balance wheel, but that's about your lot. Output formats are MPEG (.mpg) and Windows Media (.wmv), and you can also burn straight to DVD, or upload your videos to YouTube or to Magix's own album site. It supports (and can output) video at definitions from 640 x 480 (VGA) through 720 x 480 (TV quality), 1280 x 720 (the 720p HD-TV standard) all the way up to 1920 x 1080 (the 1080p HD-TV format).
Is there anything bad about the program? Other than the lack of advanced editing features, not much. The program doesn't support AVCHD-Lite (the format Panasonic uses in some cameras). You can't adjust the volume of the video and music tracks while they are playing, only while they are paused, which makes it hard to get the right audio balance. There are one or two dialogue boxes you might wish you could bypass. It doesn't properly support Windows 7 Jumplists. That's about it.
This program works really well, is quick and it's also reliable. It hasn't crashed on me once, which is more than I can say about some much more expensive video-editing software.
The buttons really are big and friendly. There are a few controls to adjust the video image - brightness, contrast, saturation and an extremely intuitive colour balance wheel, but that's about your lot. Output formats are MPEG (.mpg) and Windows Media (.wmv), and you can also burn straight to DVD, or upload your videos to YouTube or to Magix's own album site. It supports (and can output) video at definitions from 640 x 480 (VGA) through 720 x 480 (TV quality), 1280 x 720 (the 720p HD-TV standard) all the way up to 1920 x 1080 (the 1080p HD-TV format).
Is there anything bad about the program? Other than the lack of advanced editing features, not much. The program doesn't support AVCHD-Lite (the format Panasonic uses in some cameras). You can't adjust the volume of the video and music tracks while they are playing, only while they are paused, which makes it hard to get the right audio balance. There are one or two dialogue boxes you might wish you could bypass. It doesn't properly support Windows 7 Jumplists. That's about it.
This program works really well, is quick and it's also reliable. It hasn't crashed on me once, which is more than I can say about some much more expensive video-editing software.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Works fine but quite basic.
This video editing package is definitely aimed at the beginner rather than the more advanced user, who would probably be frustrated with the limitations of this product. Read more
Published 1 month ago by joc66
Disappointed
Magix Video Easy should be renamed Magix Video Basic. Not trying to be funny or insulting but this package is as basic as Windows Live but will not accept certain types of audio... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mr. G. A. Clark
Magic Magix
This programme does what it say's on the Box - it allows the complete novice to become the complete film maker. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Dave B
This looks like a good program if you can get one that works.
The first one I got from Amazon shuddered in DVD player and the displayed a notice saying program not responding.
I returned it and got my money back. Read more
I returned it and got my money back. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Lizziecobb
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Magix Video Easy (PC DVD)
The software was recommended to me by a friend, and exceeded all expectations. Read more
The software was recommended to me by a friend, and exceeded all expectations. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Bernard
Simple
It could NOT be simpler - puts on David Coleman voice... Errr, remarkable
Puts on Paul daniels voice - Its magic!
It does what it says on the tin. Read more
Puts on Paul daniels voice - Its magic!
It does what it says on the tin. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Mr. N. Edwards
Easy but unsatisfactory
This software is very easy to use to create simple videos. However, the big drawback I have found it that sound and pictures get out of sync very easily when they are imported... Read more
Published 12 months ago by P. Scott
Very Basic
This is a very basic video editor, to be honest you get more functions from the installed Windows movie Maker on XP, not much more to say than that.
Published 15 months ago by Casey Jones
An appalling company
The software is reasonable but if you have any problems with registry you cannot contanct them, DON'T TAKE THE RISK.
Published 16 months ago by The Bod
Perfect for a beginner like me
i have been wanting to make videos on DVD for some time to send to family. the cost of the software and my lack of technical knowledge has always held me back. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Rio Girl
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