muvee Technologies has released the latest version of their automatic video editing and music video creation software, autoProducer 6. It features an improved and easier to understand user interface for better workflow, additional automatic editing capabilities and a host of powerful new features.
We are long time users of muvee's autoProducer, and agree that autoProducer 6 provides an extremely cool video production technology that is remarkably fast, easy and fun. By using muvee, anyone with a DV camcorder and a Windows XP computer can make great looking music videos and slideshows - without going to film school or spending hours laboring in front of their computer monitor.
muvee's magicMoments™ technology, first introduced in the previous version of the software, is now emphasized as a key aspect of muvee autoProducer 6.
Version Six Press Release
Want to make movies sitting on your couch and watching TV? Check out the new muvee autoProducer unPlugged. Using the Windows® XP Media Center platform, muvee autoProducer unPlugged enables users to quickly and easily make muvees on a TV screen using a remote control. You can browse for and select your videos, pictures, music and an editing style, before hitting “make muvee”. In minutes, unPlugged intelligently analyzes the selected media, before automatically cutting video highlights to the music, with style effects and transitions synchronized to the beat to produce a compelling, finished production more
magicMoments is an innovative feature that complements muvee’s automatic editing capabilities by enabling users to quickly pre-select their most important scenes for inclusion using a simple Thumbs-Up button if they choose to do so. Unwanted shots can similarly be excluded with a Thumbs-Down button.
According to Dr. Pete Kellock, muvee’s founder and CEO, “magicMoments combines automatic editing with the ability to pick favorite moments in a revolutionary new way, and is just one of muvee’s unique, distinguishing features. We also offer more than 100 downloadable editing styles that are creatively themed for all sorts of occasions so that our users can give their videos impact and emotion, and create home videos that are great to watch over and over again.”
muvee autoProducer 6 supports DivX, Windows Media, QuickTime and MPEG-4 video inputs, in addition to AVI, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 formats. Other new features include support for USB webcam and video capture, integrated DVD/VCD authoring, a video snapshot tool, more photo-centric effects and transitions, picture interleaving, style groupings, file drag-and-drop, and improved title and credit sequences, among others. More advanced production settings also allow users to specify the duration of each muvee, or to optimize it to fit either the selected video and pictures, or the music.
Dr. Kellock added, “Ever since we first introduced muvee autoProducer in 2001, automatic video editing has become a must-have offering in several video editing programs, and this is a great testament to what we’re doing. But muvee’s solution is much more radical: automatic editing is at the very heart of our revolutionary approach to video production. We’ve now capitalized on our expertise in this field to make version 4 even better for our users by giving them more functionality and control. Using muvee is like having an expert video editor in your computer doing the hard work for you – in fact, quite a few of our users are professional video editors, although I’m not sure if they all tell their clients that they’re using muvee! I’m very proud of what we’ve achieved in this latest release and anticipate more exciting developments down the road.”
muvee's autoProducer software was the first in the world to deliver an intelligent, automatic and effective video production solution that catered to the needs of the home movie-makers and lazy video editors.
muvee enables novice video editors to instantly transform unedited video and pictures into compelling, professional-looking “muvees” – completely automatically in just a few quick steps that take only minutes, even seconds. Users simply select their video and pictures, add in their favorite music, and apply a production style. muvee's Artistic Intelligence™ then analyzes the video, pictures and music to select the best footage highlights and determine the tempo and mood of the music, before automatically splicing everything together with style effects and transitions synchronized to the beat.
The end result is a stylish production that can be saved and shared with family and friends in many popular formats. You can output your final muvee production as a streaming video file, a compressed file for emailing, or a high quality video file perfect for computer playback or burning to a DVD or video CD,
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muvee recently released their new 12-style pack called "Keep It All" for just US$19.95. As the name suggests, "Keep It All" styles add powerful capabilities to muvee autoProducer by allowing you to retain your original footage in its entirety. It's your muvee...uncut.
Most of the current muvee autoProducer styles do two key things:
a) they automatically pick excerpts from your raw video
b) they put these excerpted highlights together with style: adding transitions, special effects, graphics, etc, and pacing and timing the whole production to music
However, sometimes you *don't* want to edit your original footage (i.e.prevent muvee from automatically picking highlights). At the same time, you might want to quickly style the footage as-is with/without music (for example adding a sepia effect without editing). That's what "Keep It All" styles now enable you to do.
You can also choose to manually pick (or exclude) just a few specific shots using muvee's magicMoments feature, and apply the "Plain-As-Can-Be" style from the pack to the rest of the video for a quick edit. This is a simple task, but the combination of magicMoments and the "Plain-As-Can-Be" style lets you achieve this in a very quick and easy way...much easier than if you were to use a manual editing tool.
In summary, the "Keep It All" stylePack is a very practical and useful collection of styles that don't do automatic cutting, but let you optionally apply some styling.
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