MovieShop 6

by Riverdeep

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006I52R
• Item model number: 385322
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 5, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 1.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,651 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Make the most of your home videos and enjoy them like never before. Simply capture your favorite analog or digital video clips, then edit and enhance them using a variety of powerful tools and impressive effects. Delight your friends and family with full-scale movie productions featuring music, transitions, titles, and more. Get started in moments with quick and easy tutorials.

Packed with advanced editing tools and special effects, plus CD and DVD authoring and burning capabilities, MovieShop is your start-to-finish moviemaking solution. Enhance your productions with design kits featuring coordinated frames, titles, and backgrounds to achieve slick results in moments. Cut, slice, and stretch movie clips with editing tools. Add special effects and transitions with drag-and-drop ease. Save movies in formats suitable for transfer to videotape or CD, or smaller formats for sharing online.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Severely disappointed, April 18, 2003

By 

E. A Larimer (Somerset, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: MovieShop 6 (CD-ROM)

I got my software today (extremely quick on Amazon's part!!). First of all, there is a sticker on the front of the box that says "$20 off - see back" and NOTHING on the back (first turn-off). Opened the box - NO manual. The "online help system" is lacking and the software won't recognize any of my existing MPEG files for import. The ad touts Design Kits but I had to look for them while exploring the installation disk and after I found them I could not add the templates - or the effects within the software. The box doesn't mention DVD authoring but the software lets you choose DVD format. I didn't even get as far as to test a disk before it locked up about five times. Each time I restart the software I get the registration reminder, even though I did that while installing the software. I also had AOL installed with this software installation. I did not want AOL or I would have ordered THEIR disk.

I have used Magix Video DeLuxe v.1 and v.2 (at TechTV's recommendation), Pinnacle's Expression, Ulead's DVD Workshop and Factory (and VisualStudio), Sonic's MyDVD, and soon I will try Roxio's MovieMaker. The others I have used so far are MUCH easier and cooperative for me to use; even Magix with 32 separate tracks and prosumer editing features is more intuitive, in my opinion.

The video and audio additional content is neat, but I can't use it in this software. The only other plus is that the encoder is powered by Ligos Motion, which is supposed to be decent quality for viewing. As I haven't been able to get this far with the software, I can't state an opinion on that. I will save the additional movie and sound clip content to use in my other software and uninstall this product and try to give it away. Sorry, Broderbund! Yours was a name I trusted.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Fatal Error After Installation (Windows XP System), May 29, 2003

By 

Lee (WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: MovieShop 6 (CD-ROM)

I'm glad I'm not the only one with the "Fatal Error...Cannot open language file....Please reinstall." problem. I just purchased this software as a part of "MediaShop Digital Studio Vers. 2" (it was an impulse buy at Costco). After installation, Movie Shop would not start because of the above problem similar to the previous reviewer's. I have a Windows XP system which meets and exceeds all system requirements as listed on the software's package. All installation instructions were followed. I have already installed the software, uninstalled the software, and restarted the computer twice. Online technical support at Broderbund didn't even list this problem. Email technical support's response time is 5-6 hours. Broderbund's phone technical support (which is not toll-free) requires a hold time of about 25 minutes. I didn't even bother. I decided it's just not worth it. I'm returning this product.

Note: I also have/had two other Broderbund products that either have/had installation problems or operation errors. Is it the company?

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Ridiculous, April 30, 2003

By 

Howard W. (Santa Clarita, CA) - See all my reviews
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Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: MovieShop 6 (CD-ROM)

My first review and I would give it 0 stars if I could.

I installed the software and tried to run it. An error dialog came up saying "Missing file c:\...\lang.html", followed by "missing file, re-install". Which I did. Same error.

When I checked Broderbund's web site, I found that this is a known error. The problem was that I had over 500 fonts on my computer. The solution was to delete fonts until I was under 500.

I contacted them saying "This is ridiculous. How can you expect your customers to delete fonts. Some people actually pay for fonts".

Their response was "Other windows compliant programs also allow a maximum of 500 fonts." Maybe some of theirs, I thought. I responded saying if "you are not going to fix this, I want my money back. Their response this time was the link to the returns department.

In any case the software is on its way back to Broderbund for a refund.