Amazon.co.uk Review
Roxio's
VideoWave Movie Creator is a great solution for novice videographers looking for a simple and easy way to edit and create video projects. The software eliminates most of the complexities of video editing through an automated approach to video movie creation.
VideoWave helps you to save hours on your video editing and to easily turn home videos into movies on DVD or CD.
VideoWave also does a great job of making the video capturing process as simple as possible. Quickly capture video from a camcorder, a capture card or a USB video camera to your hard disk. Once you capture your video, choose from three different editing modes with varying levels of automation--CineMagic, StoryBuilder and the StoryLine Editor. The CineMagic mode offers a bit of design assistance by letting you add songs to your videos, but the actual video editing is automatically performed by CineMagic. CineMagic will then synchronise the edited video with the music and add visual effects and transitions based on your preferences. CineMagic is a great tool to create simple music-video style movie clips.
The StoryBuilder mode is another mode that offers some design assistance by guiding you through the entire movie-making process using event-based theme templates. Customise components such as opening and closing animations and selecting background music. Since StoryBuilder lacks editing tools, don't expect eye-popping results. When you're done with the CineMagic and StoryBuilder modes, use the StoryLine Editor for additional design work. Using the StoryLine Editor gives you greater design control than the other two modes. You can edit or enhance all of the individual elements that make up the movie, and access a set of easy-to-use editing tools, transitions, text overlay, graphic overlay and over a hundred special effects. However, it is extremely difficult and confusing to add effects and audio tracks in this mode, which may turn some users off.
While you won't win any design awards from using VideoWave Movie Creator, the result is more than adequate for home users. If you simply want presentable results in a hurry and don't require any advanced video edits, then this product is recommended. --Rich Ting, Amazon.com
Manufacturer's Description
Roxio's VideoWave Movie Creator is a home video editing solution that lets you turn raw video into entertaining movies in minutes. Easily capture video, advance from automatic or guided editing to precision editing with easy-to-use tools. Trim clips, insert transitions, personalise title and credits, spice up your movie with graphic character overlays and striking special effects like emboss, 3-D shapes, slow/fast motion and more. Drag and drop video clips into DVD menu templates and go directly to selected scenes using on-screen menu buttons and a DVD remote control Burn your movies to CD or DVD and share them with family and friends.