Video Explosion Deluxe

by Nova Development US

Product Features

• Over 250 ready-made video clips and a thousand sound effects and MP3 music themes -- sure to enhance any video clips
• Simple editing tools make it easy to Trim scenes, drag and drop, or pan and crop
• Work with two video and three audio tracks - offering multiple options for editing & enhancing your movies
• Hundreds of attractive special effects and transitions for Hollywood-style edits and fades
• Import video in MPEG1, MPEG2, AVI, and QuickTime formats

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000066B44
• Item model number: VEWG
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,346 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #74 in Software > Graphics > Home Publishing > Clip Art
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Video Explosion Deluxe is the one-of-a-kind combination of high-quality movie editing software and video library -- for professional custom video that gets attention! Also feature DVD authoring software -- share your hoe productions more easily than ever! Requires a IEEE-1394/DV ( FireWire ) card required for digital capture. CD-R or CD-RW drive required to create video CDs. DVD-ROM drive required for high resolution video clips. DVD-R drive and Internet registration required to create DVDs.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent and economical, August 20, 2003

By 

[e-mail] (Philadelphia, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Video Explosion Deluxe (DVD-ROM)

This is a wonderful program. I've been experimenting with home video editing for about four years and have used many programs. Admittedly, I am just a hobbyist and have used mostly the low end software. However, I have used Adobe Premiere, Broderbund MovieShop, MGI Videowave, Ulead Videostudio, Roxio Videowave among others and compare this program with these.

In many ways, this program is one of the best that I've worked with. The software installed easily into Windows XP Pro. I've had difficulties with video capture with other programs, but not with this one. I initially attempted to capture video to the same hard drive that the program was installed to and suffered an unacceptably high frame drop rate. However, when I captured video to a second hard drive, I didn't lose a single frame. If you don't have two hard drives, this program may not work as well for you, but this is generally true of most video editing programs. The quality of the video captured was superior to that of some of the other programs and this program has some video editing features (including sharpening and contrast control) not available in competitive programs.

The software interface is user friendly and the controls intuitive. It only allows for two layers of video and three layers of sound, so it doesn't have all the bells and whistles of some of the competitors. However, this is sufficient for my purposes and I suspect it would be for most home users. It handles video overlay very nicely, has a very handsome and easy to use titling program, and allowed for music and voice-over narration to be inserted into the video. There are plenty of transitions which render correctly and reliably, which unfortunately cannot be said of all the competitors.

Although some other reviewers have observed the program is better for VCD than DVD, this was not my experience. I found mpeg2 output to be very sharp and used this program to produce a very high quality DVD. In fact, this program brought me as close to that elusive "broadcast" quality video for which hobbyists aim as I ever been. The VCD is probably acceptable as VCD goes, but DVD is far superior. I wasn't happy with the VCD output, but that is probably more a limitation of VCD in general than this particular program. If you're interested in making home movies, the investment in a DVD burner is probably worthwhile. The quality is dramatically superior and this program handles it well.

I have very few complaints with the program. I tend to mix still images with video in my work and was a little disappointed that the program does not allow you to import "tiff" files. Adobe Premerie allows "tiff" images, but this program forces you to convert your images to lower resolution "jpeg" files before you import them. However, the images rendered very nicely and I had no complaints with the quality of the still images in the final program. I viewed one of my movies on a 50 inch TV screen and had no resolution problems at that size.

If you're a very serious hobbyist or professional, this program might be too streamlined for your purposes. However, I suspect most home users will be happy with this program and if you're a novice thinking about editing some video at home and don't want to make a huge financial investment; this program is a great place to start.

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very flexible product, easy to use!, December 4, 2002

By 

T. Simek (Cleveland, OH) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

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This review is from: Video Explosion Deluxe (DVD-ROM)

I'm currently (slowly but surely) working on transforming over 100 hours of analog tape to digital format. It does take a long time to render videos from analog to mpeg format, but for my purposes, it works wonderfully! This is the product I've been waiting for since I realized that watching hours of video where nothing happens just to see a couple of good parts is not fun for anyone. It's very easy to cut out digital clips, easily and accurately, and set them to background music, add sound effects or video effects, or even clean up video. I had a bad habit of taking video in lower light conditions than I should have, but this product even helps clean up errors like that.

I haven't used the full range of features yet, but so far the only problem I've encountered is that sometimes the effects that render in the final product are much more extreme than what shows in the preview. For example, I increased the saturation on a segment of video, to make the colors appear more vibrant, but when I rendered the video to mpeg, the final product was more than just vibrant, the colors were pretty much neon and different than the original (blue lips, etc.). But, overall, I would definitely recommend this product!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the bettter products in this class, May 7, 2003

By 

magui (CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Video Explosion Deluxe (DVD-ROM)

This is based on the Sonic Foundry Video Factory 2 product (which uses the same engine as Vegas Video) with more content and extras. I have tried many products including Ulead and Roxio and this one allows you to make simple videos but has many powerful features that allows you to grow as you get more sophisticated. I'm not sure what the earlier reviewer was doing, but it can edit MPEG2 files just fine. I have prodced DVD compliant videos with my Sony DVD burner and they come out beautiful.

The biggest drawback is that the manual is comprehensive enough to be able to make a basic video, but does not cover any of the powerful features and how to use them like rotating the video, panning etc. You kinda have to experiment.