Magix PhotoStory on CD & DVD 10 (PC)
Product ID: 61947018
Manufacturer's Description Photostory On CD and DVD 10Bring Your Memories Back To Life With PhotoStory on CD and DVD 10 you can turn your precious memories into unique experiences in no time at all. Simply import your pictures and transform them into multimedia slideshows. Then burn them to disc, add DVD menus and watch them on any TV, PC, or share them on the web. Bring Your Memories Back To LifeHolidays and Travel Bring your holiday memories back to life and surprise your friends with travel logs and images from your latest weekend trips and holiday excursions. Family and Celebrations Hold on to treasured moments at birthdays, Christmas or weddings, capture your children's development and impress your friends with multimedia chronicles. Hobbies and Profession Present your favourite leisure-time activities as entertaining slideshows or convince your clients of your products and offers with professionally designed presentations. Gifts Surprise your family, friends, and acquaintances with entertaining slideshows of your personal or shared experiences. Your BenefitsImport Anything Import images from digital cameras, mobile phones, scanners, memory cards, as well as CD tracks, MP3s or any other media from the web. Perfect Quality Optimise photos that didn't turn out the way you wanted them to or combine a series of individual photos into a panorama. New: Create montages with improved results even with motifs that are rich in detail. Animated Text Add personalised text for opening and closing credits, subtitles or chapter markers and design and animate them any way you want. Effects Decorate your photos with diverse effects and animations. New: Animated deco elements (sunrise, rainbow, musical notes, etc.) Audio Dubbing Let the program create background music automatically, or choose from a wide variety of music tracks. Recording spoken commentary and removing audio errors is just as easy. Interactive Disc Menus Take advantage of a wide variety of menu templates and add individually designed text, motifs, etc. The program supports all standard disc types for DVD players and PCs (video-DVD, VCD, SVCD, etc). Additional New HighlightsNew: Easier to use thanks to an optimised interfaceNew: Improved performance and low resource demandsNew: Export assistant for all common presentation purposesNew: Advanced options for individual zooms and camera pansNew: Zoomable video monitor to edit effects outside the image areaPlus: Magix Xtreme Print Studio for custom CD and DVD cases and labelsRescue Your DataBonus in version 10: includes data backup software Magix Rescue Your DataAlso ideal for desktop PCs and netbooksAutomatic archiving of photos, videos, music, documents, etc.Easily Impress Your Audience With Multimedia SlideshowsAutomatic Slideshows The integrated Slideshow Maker automatically creates exciting slideshows using countless style templates with themes like vacation, party, Christmas, New Year's Eve and many more. Storytelling Design everything just the way you want to: use highquality effects, animations and fades to make your photo story come to life. Experience Your Slideshows On TV Present your slideshow on TV with a DVD player (simply use your remote control) and choose between the classic 4:3 and the modern 16:9 widescreen format. Present Online Present your creations online as a video player on your website or in online portals like YouTube and Flickr. New: Upload to Facebook.
S**8
Turn those photos into something very special!
I already had Magix Photostory on CD & DVD 9 and was invited to buy an upgrade to version 10 direct from Magix but the price was prohibitive. And then I found it on Amazon for 45% of the offered cost and I couldn't refuse. This program loads well, has an attractive and interesting user interface and performs brilliantly. I have to say, it's not that user friendly but if you take time to explore, you will find that a series of say a hundred 'off the cuff' photos can be turned into a great DVD presentation of visual and musical interest. The great thing about this program is that there is so much to explore and try out, that each subsequent presentation seems different and better from the last. I took some 150 photos recently, picked the best 100, ran them through a simple photo editing program ( cropping, brightening, sharpening and adding increased colour ) and then loaded them into this Magix program, chose a style ( still experimenting at this stage ) and burnt it to DVD. This program does it all. That DVD has gone around all of my work colleagues and I have been amazed how they all felt how professional the audio and visual display turned out. Photograph can be nothing more that flat, often dreary, two dimensional things, can't they. But add effects, music onto the Magix slideshow and you have something truly worth watching. And with the cost of blank DVD's really low, you can create things at low cost for anyone ... great gifts too. Professional hard copy photo albums are of course a treasure but oh so expensive. With this program and anyone's DVD player, you can produce different but better photo presentations for a fraction of the cost. I just cannot wait to make more. In conclusion, take time out to learn and appreciate this program and you will have software that will thrill you with the results ... and just about everyone else too. Even if like me you are just an amateur photographer!
B**F
Same old faults
This new version has the same old faults as version 7 By that I mean if you change anything such as a differnt fade in between one photo and another somthing els will change further back along the story board that you have done such as if you choose a new fade if you have used the zoom on another picture the zoom will get cancelled out further back on the story board. It's most anoying.Before you print or burn your slideshow you must CHECK, CHECK and CHECK again.Hardly anything has changed from version 7 only the 3D titles which you can't alter the colours so you are stuck with them.Also when printing the the finished slide show it is better to print it to your hard drive and keep a copy on a memory stick rather than burning it on to a DVD. On a DVD the pictures loose their sharpnes and become a little blured. All in all I prefer version 7 to this one as it is easyer to use and the picture quality on a DVD is much better.
R**Y
Not as good as my old XP version!
Bought this as l have just upgraded to Win 7 and my old Photos on CD & DVD only went to Win XP - the old version was much better it had more to it 2 x CDs 1 for the programme, 1 for Audio & Content Archive also had a lot more burn option menu's.CD & DVD 10 (PC) has only one CD with limited amount of extra material, they give you link to a web site & guess what you can buy extra content!! So have to say it's OK but not as good as the XP version!
J**E
Magix PhotoStory 10
Great programme, if you can ever fatham out how to work it. Searching for instructions is a nightmare. If and when you ever find any, they tell you how wonderful this programme is and what it can do, but not how to do it. A more in depth instruction booklet or PDF file would really upgrade this programme to be the leader in Slide Show media. So many complaints about it on Magix own forum, which is not good. With decent instructions I would recommend it but until they get their act together, go for another programme with understandable instructions.
M**R
Does it add value
Maybe it's just that I haven't spent enough time with this product, but it doesn't really seem to do anything that the Windows Media software or something like PowerPoint can't already do. I bought it for a specific purpose, to support a presentation on underwater photography to a local photographic society but ended up abandoning it in favour of just using PowerPoint.I can't say there's anything wrong with it, just that I don't see the point.
J**N
Magix Man,
I have had most of the magic materials they provide. Easy to use, no problems with this latest edition. It appears to load quicker which is a blessing. But the results I get are fine. I have noted that a few of the 'extras' are missing but I have not investigatedfurther on that matter, Perhaps that is why it loads particularly quicker. Certainly worthy of a four.Tony M.
D**N
good product gone backwards
had version 3 before, which was great, but find version 10 more complicated to use, i know these things have to move forward, but the changes, for me, were unnecessary, only bought version 10 because version 3 would not go on windows 7
M**A
Reasonable quality
Its a useable software and I have made DVDs successfully which this item. It is compatible with Windows 7. The instructions are reasonably easy to follow.
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