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Roxio 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 save hours on your video editing and easily turn home videos into movies on DVD or CD.
VideoWave does a good job of making the video capturing process as simple as possible. It allows you to quickly capture video from a camcorder, capture card, or USB video camera and move it to your hard disk. Once you capture your video, choose from three different editing modes with varying levels of automation--CineMagic, StoryBuilder, and StoryLine Editor. 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 synchronize the edited video with your music and add visual effects and transitions based on your preferences. CineMagic is a great tool for creating simple music video-style movie clips.
StoryBuilder mode also offers design assistance by guiding you through the entire movie-making process using event-based theme templates. It lets you customize components such as opening and closing animations, and selecting background music. Because StoryBuilder lacks editing tools, don't expect eye-popping results. When you're done with CineMagic and StoryBuilder modes, use StoryLine Editor for additional design work. StoryLine Editor gives you greater design control than other modes. You can edit or enhance all the individual elements that make up the movie, and access a set of easy-to-use editing tools, transitions, text overlays, graphic overlays, and over 100 special effects. However, we found it extremely difficult and confusing to add effects and audio tracks in this mode, and this may turn off some users.
While you won't win any design awards using VideoWave Movie Creator, the results are more than adequate for home users. If you simply want presentable results in a hurry and don't require any advanced video edits, we would recommend this product.--Rich Ting
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While most DVD authoring packages concentrate on the disc and the menus, VideoWave Movie Creator lets you edit the video to get the effects you want. VideoWave Movie Creator helps you do everything from capturing your footage, to adding transitions and special effects, and turning it all into a DVD title with scenes and menus.
Capturing footage is simple enough, and you can break up a long video into separate scenes. As you work, you can place video clips and images into the story line across the top, choosing the task you're working on from the toolbar on the left. You have a video preview on the right and the commands and options for the tool you're using at the bottom. It's not the usual Windows interface, but it's a clear and intuitive way of working. You also get two CD-ROMs full of audio, video, and themes that you can use in your videos.
VideoWave Movie Creator includes over 60 transitions and special effects that perform tasks like softening focus or distorting images. The Time Warp feature lets you speed up or slow down your footage, while Video Mixer lets you superimpose two video clips or blend a video clip with a background image. You can apply an effect to a whole clip or just a section of it, and you can create animated text titles, credits, subtitles, and overlays. The audio controls aren't quite as sophisticated, but you can add WAV and MP3 files to clips. When you're ready to create your DVD, you can choose from a variety of buttons and background images. There aren't any templates but you can include standard navigation buttons, choose which frame of a video clip to show on the button, and pick the font for labels.
One warning: so far, Roxio has only tested VideoWave with a handful of camcorders and video capture cards, and it doesn't work with all DVD burners. It's worth checking to see that your hardware is supported before you use this product. If it is, VideoWave is a great tool for video beginners wanting to get professional effects that they can see on their own TVs. --Mary Branscombe, Amazon.co.uk
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Just a little more than basic video transfer, but lacking,
By A Customer
This review is from: Roxio Videowave Movie Creator (CD-ROM)
This s/w came free on a new Dell computer. I've been transferring footage of a show done at my children's primary school to DVD. Goal is to produce relatively simple DVDs with about 2 hours of material, so NOT at full DVD quality. Have spent quite a few hours working on about 3 hours of material. Primarily used capture mode and the Story Line Editor; never used CineMagic or Story Line Builder.It came installed, so I had no problems there. Applied an upgrade from the RVWMC site with no major difficulties. The inital small spash screen remains on the screen long after the software has loaded, and clicking on its "x" does nothing. Just one of many annoyances. The capture feature works ok and (unlike some others) RVWMC will allow capture of video in DVI format. However, it has what appears to be a poor MPEG encoder judging from results. I wanted to encode at a modest bit rate that will allow me to cram two hours onto a DVD. Experimented with different rates but it looked quite poor at low rates when compared to what Sonic could produce (see below). Trim mode is pretty good - allowing precision of trimming down to the level of a single frame (half frame? dunno, I'm not Dr. Video). This is very useful, another advance over others. The story line editor allows me to string clips together. Easy to get lost on a long story line; the individual pieces are not numbered and it only shows 7 at a time, with (as far as I can tell) no way to zoom out to get a feel for it. My major gripe is that RVWMC has pieces of major features but they feel partially completed, not fully tested, not quite ready. For example, it can do a rolling credit with a variable font -- pretty nice if you're content with a few lines. But the textbox that accepts the text simply stops accepting characters after about 30 lines. Then what? For example, right-clicking on a piece of the story line shows a properties window, and various text boxes allow you to put the cursor in them -- but you cannot change anything. For example, you can put a solid frame in the story line and put plain text on top of it, but you cannot edit the text - the Done button cannot be clicked. The lack of support is simply exasperating. Roxio points the finger at Dell in my case, but (as you can imagine) Dell's call center in India has nothing to offer. ... Even on my relatively capable machine it feels slow. Switching among tasks takes seconds sometimes, which is longer than it should. What is it doing? By comparison, for simple tasks, Sonic's MyDVD has fewer options but a better MPEG encoder, and in general works far more smoothly with fewer glitches and crashes. Sonic's "good" mode (basically VCD bit rate, I think) still looks acceptable. I finally gave up on RVWMC for this project and used Sonic. Don't spend much money on this one, that's my advice. Full details: my Roxio VideoWave Movie Creator has version stamp 1,6,676,1 according to Help/About. Running on a WinXP box, 2.4Ghz, 512Mb, lots of disc.
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Warning: Be aware of the severe limitations before you buy,
By bayou_hannibal "bayou_hannibal" (West Virginia, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Roxio Videowave Movie Creator (CD-ROM)
Like some of the other folks here, I have been disappointed in this software. There are a number of reasons for this:1. There are so many features that seem oversimplified, incomplete, or non-functional. I could never get even basic functions of the storyline editor to work. For example, I wanted to simply get a DVD with different chapters to play continuously, and I couldn't do that. When I would play a movie made with the storyline editor on my DVD player, it would constantly quit in the middle of the DVD and return to the menu. I still have no idea how to perform this basic function. 2. Technical support stinks. I have to pay for support after one month? Who came up with that idea? Way to show your enthusiasm for your product. 3. But the biggest reason is that there is only one DVD write quality setting. You simply can't fit more than 55 minutes worth of movie onto a DVD. Even then, it is discernably lower quality than the HQ setting on a DVD recorder. If you want the quality of satellite or digital cable, you are NOT going to get it with this software. This means that the software is inferior for most applications. After doing some market searching, it appears that the basic features of this program are typical of this price range, so I can't say that you will find a product that is a lot better. But that doesn't excuse the misleading advertising: "Copy all of your movies to DVD!" Yeah right. If you don't mind your 4-hour event being split up onto 4 different DVD's. The home movie studio market does a TERRIBLE job of educating consumers about this. I finally broke down and bought a Sony DVD Recorder. It was a lot more money, but I needed it for what I was trying to do, which is to capture broadcasts and create DVD's of my favorite sports teams. If you want to do something like this, then you can't use Video Wave Movie Creator to do it.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
There are better choices,
By A Customer
This review is from: Roxio Videowave Movie Creator (CD-ROM)
I found out that it doesn't create SVCDs. Also, the video editing is quite limiting, not even as good as the free Windows MovieMaker 2, or Ulead VideoStudio. Finally, the text on the product tour dialog doesn't show on my Windows XP machine. So my advice is: Look somewhere else for video editing software. This one is not worth it.
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