Customer Reviews

Movie Edit Pro 11 [OLD VERSION]

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1 star:		(11)

 

 

This is an incredible piece of software for the price. It literally packs in features that you'd normally pay four to five times the amount you're getting this baby for. I've been able to perserve my VHS library onto DVD, improving both video and audio quality in a remarkable fashion. The lengthy instruction manual you get only further attests to how much you're getting for your money and it's the bargain of the year. I used version 10 and liked it a lot. This one is even better.

I have used Adobe video programs for years, e.g. Premiere and After Effects, and found them pretty bullet-proof, albeit expensive. I have used this product for a couple of months (to avoid Adobe's frequent and expensive upgrades), creating a few short animations. So far a few glitches (and workarounds), but pretty good, especially for the price. I have spent almost all my time in the editing tab, especially the timeline view (the most detailed), and found everythng I expected - 16 tracks that can handle video and/or audio clips (multiples of each on any track), effects, titles, transitions, nice audio location (sync), etc. So I'd recommend it to anyone looking for a bargain video editing application. Be sure to download the latest patch, and check out the user forum at the Magix website for more feedback. And BTW, reportedly V.10 had/has problems, so get this V.11.

I have used Magix Video editors since version 1, and Movie Edit Pro 11 is the best yet. Finished product will produce your choice of either 4:3 ratio or 16:9 ratio video. You can burn directly to DVD with menu, or save out DVD compliant MPEG-2 files. Totally lossless DV-AVI capture. Produces seperate .WAV audio and .AVI from mini-DV cameras. This feature prevents skewing of the voice-to-image sync problems many editors have after 10 or more minutes of Continuous dumping video to hard disk. Provides the best Chroma Key abilities I have ever seen! Chroma-key in blue, green, black, or white backgrounds. You can easily extract a single photo from the video in .BMP or .MPG format. All in all, this software will yield as good an end product as any Hollywood movie you can purchase on DVD today. Fantastic video when used with a 3-CCD camcorder, sharp, clean, flawless. Has tools to adjust color, brighness, contrast, gama-match, as well as audio tools. Want a professional transition? It has the ability! You can slide one take up against another, press-in until you get a small X where the two videos join, and you have the best scene transition money can buy.

I don't normally write reviews but after reading some of these bad reviews
I had to give my opinion. I tryed three different software programs and all 3 drove me nuts. My first mistake was buying just any old dvd's blanks. Out of 50 disk maybe 2 or 3 worked the rest I recyled.
I'd spend 2 hrs encoding and than they would error out. Bought Taiyo Yuden
dvd-r which cost more but the difference is night and day. Another thing
you need to make movies is a very good working computer. Make sure its
in good working order. I have a dual core processor in mine and it gets pushed to limit. Before I start burning a movie I restart the computer and turn everything else off. I've been using Pro 11 for about a yr now and
once you learn how to use it its fantastic. You can do anything with.
There are a lot of tutorials to help you learn how to us it. Once you
learn it it works like a charm. You can't buy a better program at any price.

Must admit I'm kinda shocked too at the bad reviews of this product. I've also been using this at home for about a year, and am quite versed in video editing and other software packages to do such (do extensive video editing at work). The MEP 11 program is excellent for video/video-audio editing, and is the best bang for your buck out there. However, wouldn't recommend this for beginners in video editing (try Ulead products instead, they're relatively easy to use though not nearly as feature rich). It really is amazing what is included for the price in the MEP 11 BOXED version (do not recommend the e-version at all. There's a lot missing in it). Now the other caveat, at home I'm using MEP with Windows XP on a 3Ghz Dell, 1 Gig RAM, and with plenty of hard drive storage space. Based on the poor reviews, I'm guessing that MEP doesn't work too well with other operating systems or slower computers. This is Magix' bad, as they claim it can be used on other operating systems.

I have used several MAGIX products over the years.
Considering the $$ spent, I have usually been very pleased.

It seems MAGIX takes features from it's more professional products and makes stripped down, simpler versions for the general consumer or hobbyist.
(example: Audio Cleaning Lab contains many of the features from the pro recording studio software SAMPLITUDE. In fact you can sometimes find errors in the manual where they copied text and accidently left the word SAMPLITUDE in the instructions).

MOVIE EDIT PRO 11 works fines for my needs.

I largely shoot underwater video in either AVI or MPG formats.

I then need to edit this videos into "underwater sightseeing or adventure videos" with transitions, music soundtracks, chapters, and color enhancements, etc...

This software has worked great.

2 words of advice I will caution people about when working with MAGIX products.......

1) Due to the low software price, the company must cut costs someplace and that seems to be Customer Service.
In a word..... forget about it. You are on your own.
MAGIX virtually never answers emails or calls.

2) Save Often !!
MAGIX is not alone in this arena, but many Audio and Video editing software platforms really put a load on a PC (even a powerful one) and thus these applications tend to lock up or crash from time to time during really heavy multi-task processing with real-time effects........ So............. SAVE OFTEN !
Your life will be easier

I tend to save different versions along the way (V1, V2, V3) so I can retrace back to a prior save if anything gets glitchy.

I would NOT buy this product at all. They have no product support that will efficiently help you. I have left 6 messages over the last week to 3 different locations and have not gotten a return phone call. I have written 3 emails to seperate people and have not gotten a return email. If you will require product support this is not the product to buy.

If you like cheap movie editing software that crashes and burns, this product is for you! Unfortunately I bought this product at Best Buy since it was on sale for $20 without seeing any reviews first. Big Mistake! It crashed on install. It crashes when selecting various options. The customer support is TERRIBLE. Their Website is terrible! I have a pretty high tech machine so I know it is not my computer. I've got all the latest drivers and downloaded their useless patch. I think I will move up to Sony's Vegas Movie Studio. I have seen a lot of good reviews on that product! For now it might be back to Windows Movie Maker. To bad you can not return opened software. DO NOT BUY THIS!! You'll be sorry.

I don't know what people are complaining about here. I got my copy at a pretty low price--about $30.00 which is a lot cheaper than the other editors out there. You can't expect top notch quality at a low price.
However, once you learn to use this product it is actually pretty good--except it doesn't convert Quicktime and some AVI files right. However, if you use one of the other various formats such Realplayer and Windows Media Player formats it is an excellent product. There are a lot of good things this product does if a person takes the time to go through it and figure out what it does.

I am a digital movie production student and I am used to using high end software such as Final Cut Pro and After effects. There is no way I can afford to purchase these programs as I am a full time student, much less a computer powerful enough to run them. I bought this software hoping I could use my 1.6 gig processor and do some kind of edit. Not only does it run fine, and offer a lot of effects, but it interfaces with my breakaway box that I have not previously been able to use, which allowed me to bring my old high 8 camera out of the closet. Render time can be slow, but I found that rendering out to a mpeg format is not too bad. I rendered over an hour of video to mpeg in a little over 2 hours. This software is a great piece of conversion software as well. It recognized almost all codecs. import/export mov, mpeg, wmv, avi, and more. It is not intuitive as others but more than makes up for the time it takes to learn it. One feature I really like, due to long render times is that there is a setting that automatically shuts down the computer after render. Start rendering and leave it, it takes care of itself.