muvee AutoProducer  

Can your grandma edit a video like a MTV rock star? By using muvee, now she can.

muvee autoProducer makes it easy to automatically create great looking home and event videos.  Just install the muvee autoProducer software in your computer, hook your DV camcorder via a 1394, Firewire or iLink port and capture the video directly to your hard drive.

 After capture, the muvee autoProducer will edit it all for you. You just need to tell the program a few things like what kind of  visual editing style you want and what music to use and it does it all itself. Automatically. And amazingly enough it works!   

 The muvee Technologies people have developed a series of innovative technologies that analyze the video, analyze the music and then construct and output a video combing a wide range effects, transitions and wipes. It goes through your captured video, picks out faces and close-ups and then edits it to whatever style and music you have selected. It drops existing audio and only uses the selected music tracks. The finished “muvee” production comes out ready to saved as a file, burned to a DVD, or distributed via the internet and posted to your web site.

You can use any wav or MP3 audio file as background for your muvee. The latest version of muvee also enables you to decide how long you want the finished muvee will be as well as setting balance between the original soundtrack and the music. The new version also provides a wide choice of fonts, colors and type sizes for your opening titles and closing credits.

 This won’t put Hollywood editors out of business or seriously threaten prosumer wedding and event videographers but it sure makes creating a personal or family video so much easier. It is hard to believe.

 The finished video can be saved in a variety of formats including DV for playing and recording back to your DV camcorder, AVI for playing back on your computer,  asf for streaming out over the Internet, and MPEG1 for burning onto CDs and VCDs.   You can also save as MPEG-2 for burning to DVD.

As muvee requires a bit of power,  minimum tech specs are Pentium III 550 MHz or AMD-6 or equivalent processor with MMX support, 128 MB of RAM, 16 MB of Video RAM and an AV rated hard disk with lots of open space. This is for Windows only and will run on Win 98 SE, ME, 2000 or XP.

 The free trial version of muvee autoProducer only lets you input a single music and video file at a time, offers only four style options, and has the muvee logo and titles superimposed over your finished production. You can get a special key that unlocks the software. Buying the upgrade version gets rid of the muvee logo, credit and title sequences, and enables you to use your own titles and graphics. You also get additional style options and can use multiple video and music tracks. The Plus version enables you to combine up to 75 video and/or music tracks.  

 This is a great way to quickly and easily create short videos spotlighting your family and events. As you play with the program, you will learn a few tricks to help you control how muvee works and help you get more of an individualistic finished product. 

By stacking numerous copies in the queue, you will be able to get more of those specific images into the finished muvee. Also, if you can capture only the images you want to use (short video clips), you will be able influence the editing and creation process.

This is indeed an exciting and fun to use product that really works. My kids could use this; my grand parents could do this. This is easy.  I didn’t have problems during installation or testing. As long as you have a suitably powerful computer with lots of empty space on the hard drive to store both your source and final project files, I firmly recommend muvee autoProducer.

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