Released by Magix:
MAGIX Photos On CD & DVD 3.0 Deluxe Is The Perfect Partner For The Digital Camera
MAGIX Photos on CD & DVD 3.0 deLuxe priced £29.99 incorporates an outstanding array of new and enhanced content and features that make it a really exciting choice for the consumer. As ever with MAGIX the new features are easy to use, enabling the user to transform an amateurish home presentation to a slick professional slide show. The new integrated MAGIX PhotoShow Maker produces a perfect arrangement including music and effects even with one click. Easy as one, two, three, users Import photographs from a number of sources including a digital camera, scanner and a wide variety of image, video and sound files. ‘Edit’, taking advantage of the automatic optimisation, to correct common faults such as brightness, contrast, gamma curves and colour and then, finally, the finished product can be Burned on to VCD, SVCD, DVD or mini DVD or create streaming videos for the Internet or save as an .AVI movie for use in other projects. The new task assistant offers perfect guidance for beginners: it explains and directly leads to most wanted functions.
Impressive transitions, effects, music and recorded narration can also be added. A huge library of creative touches, such as virtual camera movements, images, music, text styles, special FX, cross fades, zooms, subtitles, video clips, close-ups and panorama movements are included to transform a flat slideshow project into a theatrical masterpiece.
The automatic slide show is the ‘piece de resistance’ of Photos on CD & DVD 3.0 deLuxe – with one click of a button images are professionally optimised. Choose from 19 wonderfully imaginatively titled topics 70’s, paparazzi, love story, Christmas or even New Years Eve and like magic, the right music and authentic background noises are added. Impressive transitions, text templates that can be edited, inspiring animations, spectacular effects and video clips all help you to create a masterpiece. Image transitions are displayed in time with the background music. The PhotoShow Maker applies several styles to a show – simply select the start and end. Of course ideas can be further developed or reset changes if unhappy with the results. Be amazed and astonish family and friends!
MAGIX is renowned for the powerful professional-quality features found in its consumer software and Photos on CD & DVD 3.0 Deluxe is no exception. The 4-track timeline mode makes precision design a snap and the bonus MAGIX Photo Clinic 3.0, a sophisticated 24-bit image editor, fixes photos for the perfect picture. Fun photo effects, such as fish-eye, mosaic, painting and cartoon-style can also be added. All images are instantly resized and restored for a uniform set of pictures with professional colour, focus and brightness. MAGIX Photos on CD & DVD 3.0 deLuxe enables users to quickly burn photo albums and re-editable project archives on disc and designs professional DVD menus that include intros, sounds and animated backgrounds. Since the software edits non-destructively, consumers can be as creative as they like without worrying about losing their original work.
MAGIX Photos on CD & DVD 3.0deLuxe supports a wide variety of disc formats, from VCD to DVD and includes top-quality Ligos GoMotion MPEG-2 encoder. And as MAGIX Photos on CD & DVD 3.0 deLuxe also burns auto-play CD-ROMs, consumers can be sure anyone can play their wedding, party or special event slideshows.
Consumer information
Software is available from, PC World, Amazon and direct from FastTrak online www.fasttrak.co.uk.
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). In addition to its full range of personal rich media products, MAGIX offers its professional applications, Samplitude and Sequoia, to audio production studios and broadcast stations. 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, together 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.
