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MAGIX BRINGS THE POWER OF HOLLYWOOD TO THE
HOME DESKTOP WITH MOVIE EDIT PRO 10
 
Home Movie Workstation with HD Support and Integrated DVD Authoring Made Easy for only $49
 
February 22, 2005, Miami Beach, FL – MAGIX, the worldwide leader in video editing software1, announced today MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 10, the complete home video editing software that brings the blockbuster power of Hollywood to consumers for only $49.  The highly-anticipated new version of the award-winning MAGIX Movie Edit Pro line, MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 10 features easy capture, intuitive editing, automatic movie functions and instant CD & DVD burning.  The drag and drop ease-of-use enables anyone to create memorable movies from home video footage, complete with Surround Sound music, for a complete professional movie experience.
 
MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 10 is the fast way to impress your audience: simply choose from 15 great themes. As if by magic – your party, holiday, and vacation recordings are optimized & arranged with the right themed effects and corresponding soundtrack with the new Automatic MovieShow Maker
 
The program includes a variety of tools to help anyone make a great movie the first time.
New built-in Task Assistants provide instant project help.  Users simply select the task they wish to perform and an onscreen video shows them how.  The New MAGIX Story Maker makes movie editing fun.  Improving picture quality, adding captions, applying fade effects, virtual camera pans and zooms and even making rotation effects that send a scene flying across the screen, are now as easy as dragging a slider bar.
 
MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 10 makes sensational cuts, builds cool special effects, animations, and 3D transitions, and even creates DVD chapters for a professional end-product that turns your home movies into blockbuster masterpieces.  The new Anti-Shake Filter takes the blur out of handheld shots and Comment Feature lets the ‘producer’ add Scorsese-like background commentary to any movie.
 
New HD and Digital TV Support
The software now imports high-definition video and online movies from HDV, HDTV, DVB, WMVHD formats and saves in MPEG 1 and 2, MOV, WMV 9 as well as high-quality MPEG-4 and DivX compression (with installed codec).  MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 10 also features TV recording and new Digital TV support for editing and burning DVB streams to CD & DVD.   A timer is also included, converting a consumer PC into a personal digital video recorder.  Never miss a show again.  Now recording and burning are fully-automated to save time and avoid aggravation when burning DVDs. 
 
Create Video Special Effects and Slide-Shows
MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 10 lets consumers spice up their movies with 70 new enhanced video special effects templates and 25 combined special effects, including Fish Eye and Heartbeat. 55 music templates for automatic music introductions and background music can be enhanced with MAGIX’s new one-click Surround Sound button.  MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 10 also supports recording, editing, converting and burning 4:3 and 16:9 widescreen formats to ensure a Hollywood-blockbuster home theater experience. 
 
The software also creates beautiful slide-show DVDs of vacations and parties and has one-click image optimization to fix poor lighting conditions in photos (like dark sunsets or over-exposed sunlight shots), in addition to 10 image optimization effects. 
 
Adding movie titles is easy with 50 text generators for automatic rolling credits and subtitles. The software’s Video Trimmer makes precise scene cuts, edits and blends. It even recognizes scene changes to automatically split into individual scenes. The Overview and Storyboard Edit Modes make viewing and sorting video a snap.  MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 10 also grows with the user with more advanced editing options included in the software, such as the 16-track Timeline Mode.
 
MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 10 is available immediately for Windows through major retailers for $49.99 SRP.  For more information, visit www.magix.com or call 888-866-2449.
 
About MAGIX
MAGIX is a principal pioneer of innovative rich media products for professional and consumer markets, and a worldwide market leader in photo, video and audio applications combined with multimedia content and online services (1). MAGIX is the worldwide technology leader in Personal Rich Media.  Personal Rich Media allows consumers to convert, edit, create and publish digital media, including video, photos and music, making it possible for users of all ages and experience levels to create, share and publish their own rich media content.  MAGIX, with its worldwide subsidiaries, is the only international company to offer a full range of photo, video and audio solutions with content and services for broadband, B2B and consumer markets.  
 
(1)     According to retail sales as reported by Media Control Trend Charts 2003 Germany (PC/CD-ROM Non-Games), GFK Charts 2003 Non-Games (France, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, Italy), Charttrack Annual 2003 United Kingdom, and NPD Charts 2003 (USA), Future Retail Panel UK, Italy, Spain, Scandinavia. MAGIX has sold the most products in the segments video-, photo-, and music software.
 
 

 
New Features in Movie Edit Pro 10:
RECORD AND IMPORT
·        Import video recordings (DV/Hi8/Super8/D8/WebCam etc.) - Time-saving automation and real-time compression, preview and batch processing for DV camcorders
·        Digitize video cassettes - Digitize VHS, SVHS and Video2000 recordings
·        Record TV broadcasts - NEW! Usable as a video recorder (incl. timer for TV cards)
·        Import high definition video & online movies - NEW! HDV, HDTV, DVB, WMVHD. MPEG 1&2, MOV, WMV 9 and (with installed codec) MPEG 4 and DivX
·        Record/Burn automation - ENHANCED! Time-saving disk completion without intermediate steps
·        Add commentaries - Add commentaries via microphone, synchronized with video
·        Create trick movies - NEW! Great animations for each still
 
EDIT & RESTORE
·        Task Assistant - NEW! Helps turn your ideas into reality - fast
·        Anti-shake filter - ENHANCED! Smooths shaky recordings
·        Automatic correction - Optimize brightness, contrast, gamma curves, color
·        Brilliant image optimization - Sharpen focus, change colors, crop
·        Optimize TV displays - NEW! Full screen view without frame cropping and flickering, perfect brightness and color
·        Video effects - ENHANCED! 70 templates (e.g. Fish Eye, Heartbeat)
·        Video Controller - ENHANCED! Customized effects with a click (incl. cropping)
·        Effect automation - Draw dynamic effects curves with your mouse
·        1-click image optimization - NEW! 10 effects to improve poor photos (e.g. sunsets)
·        Superb quality - Top sound & image (Ligos ® GoMotion ® MPEG 1&2 Encoder)
·        Time-saving MPEG handling - ENHANCED! Faster & better via smart MPEG2 rendering, native MPEG2 editing, DV-to-MPEG2 transcoding etc.
·        Non-destructive correction - Retain original files despite editing
·        Multi-monitor support - NEW! Enhanced real-time TV and PC screen control
 
EDIT & ARRANGE
·        Scene recognition - Splits videos into individual scenes
·        Scene overview - Overview mode for rapid viewing and sorting
·        Director’s view - Add sound and text (Storyboard Mode)
·        Timeline display -16 track detailed arrangement (Timeline Mode)
·        Automatic MovieShow Maker -  NEW! Incl. 18 styles and rhythmic editing
·        Transition effects - ENHANCED! 170 templates (e.g. Leafing, Zoom, Picture-in-picture)
·        Effect combinations - NEW! 25 effects combinations for great results
·        Text generator - 50 templates (e.g. rolling credits, subtitles)
·        Video Trimmer - Precision scene durations, edits and blends
·        Interactive DVD player - ENHANCED! 55 templates for auto intros, backgrounds (video/music) & animated buttons

 
ADD SOUND & SUBTITLES
·        Surround sound- NEW! Real home cinema sound via mouse click. Tons of great effects
·        Sound restoration - Refresh soundtracks
·        Background music - Automatic song maker for customized playbacks
·        Comments -Record via microphone (incl. volume maximization)
·        Karaoke function -Replace original vocals with your own
·        Audio effects - 45 templates (e.g. reverb, relay, pitch)
 
FILE SUPPORT AND CONVERSION
·        Video: MORE! Import/export AVI, DV AVI (types 1 & 2), MPEG 1 & 2, WMV 9, WMVHD, MOV, MXV and (with installed Codec)  MPEG 4 and DivX TM - plus many more. / import streams (VOB, HDV, HDTV, DVB), MJPEG / export Real Helix TM
·        Image: Import/export JPG, BMP / supports scanners and digital photo cameras (TWAIN ® )
·        Audio: Import/export WAV / Import non-copyright-protected audio-CDs, MP3, OGG, MIDI files
 
ROYALTY FREE MULTIMEDIA ARCHIVE
·        2 CDs with 1,400 templates: 70 video, image & color effects, 170 blends, 50 animated credits, 100 frames, 260 video & enhancement motifs, 45 audio effects, background music, soundtrack sounds, examples and much more
 
System Requirements:  Microsoft® Windows® 98 / 98 SE / ME / 2000 XP
 
Minimal configuration:
u    Intel® Pentium® II 400 MHz or similar
u    Memory 64 MB (128 MB recommended)
u    Hard disk memory for program files min. 300 MB, for video files min. 1 GB free (5 GB recommended)
u    SVGA graphic card with min. 4 MB RAM, min. display resolution of 800x600 with 16-bit high color,
u    Sound playback with 16-bit soundcard. Surround Sound playback via Dolby® ProLogicTM-compatible decoder / receiver.
u    CD-ROM or DVD drive, Microsoft-compatible mouse
u    Digital recording & output (e.g. via DV camcorder) with OHCI-compatible IEEE-1394 DV Capture card (FireWire®), Microsoft® DirectX8a-compatible driver and hard disc with a minimum data rate of 4 MB/s.
u    DV to MPEG2 transcoding from 2.0 GHz processor
u    Analog recording & output (e.g. via VHS recorder) with video card compatible with Video for Windows or DirectShow, TV tuner card or graphic card with video input. Windows Direct Media drivers are required for virtual VCR function.
u    Video file import and export in DivXTM and MPEG-4 with installed codecs.
u    Create Video CDs (VCD) and Super Video CDs (SVCD) with SCSI or IDE CD-R(W) recorder. DVDs with DVD burner (DVD-R(W), DVD+R(W)).
u    Playing created Video CDs (VCD) and Super Video CDs (SVCD) on TV via compatible DVD player. On PC via CD-ROM/RW, DVD-R(W) and DVD+R(W) drives. DVDs on TV via compatible DVD player (DVD-R(W), DVD+R(W)). On PC via Windows-copatiblem DVD-R(W) and DVD+R(W) drives.
u    Publish on magix.com, MAGIX Online Photo Album and MAGIX Online Print Service only with internet connection and Microsoft® Internet ExplorerTM 4.0 or higher. Video Emails sent with Microsoft® OutlookTM or Microsoft® Outlook ExpressTM.
 


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