Reprinted from a muvee press release:
muvee Technologies, the pioneer in automatic video production for the PC, is proud to release the latest version of its *award-winning muvee autoProducer software. The new muvee autoProducer 3 debuts with a host of new features including support for still images, plug-in styles and improved integration with DVD authoring packages.
muvee autoProducer 3 now lets users blend digital pictures (JPG/JPEG, GIF and BMP) with their video, and introduces new panning and zooming photo effects that bring stills to life. In response to user requests for a wider selection of video effects and transitions, the new release also supports plug-in styles that users can purchase and download to augment the set of 24 built-in styles that come with the software.
muvee autoProducer 3 also sports a host of improvements including direct launching of popular DVD authoring applications, support for Windows Media audio files (WMA), and greater user control over the sequencing of video clips.
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Software applications for digital video editing, separated into consumer and professional tools. Each application includes a briefdescription, and information on the latest released version, with productdescriptions and images are summarized from published information. (The Expandedversions include previous product releases and application screenshots.)
15 Hollywood-style movie trailer templates - unique titles, graphics, cinematic soundtrack
Genres include adventure, romantic comedy, epic drama
Add sophisticated visual effects like flash and hold
Over 12 one-click effects - slow motion, instant replay, jump cuts
New audio editing - sound effects, voiceover, music - adjust audio levels
People Finder - analyze and mark scenes with faces
New themes to create TV-like professional news programs or sports highlights
iMovie 09: Powerful, yet easy-to-use new features to create a movie quickly, or
add refinements and special effects if you have more time
- Drag and drop on top of clip for advanced editing options,
including replace, insert, audio only, picture-in-picture or green screen
- Precision Editor: skim magnified filmstrip to precisely fine tune edits
- Analyzes video, video stabilization for camera shake
- New titles, transitions, cinematic effects, speed changes, animated travel maps
GarageBand 09: 18 Basic Lessons in HD video synched to animated instruments and notation.
Artist Lessons how to play hit songs with finger positions and techniques
including: John Fogerty, Norah Jones, Sarah McLachlan, Sting -- sold separately at the new
New guitar amp and stomp-box effects, Magic Play along with a virtual band that you create
Find Apple iLife '08 on Amazon.com Introduces new way to quickly make movies and share online
Import video from latest AVCHD, HDV and DV camcorders, digital cameras
SD and HD, tape-based and tapeless camcorders,
including Flash-memory, hard disk drives, and DVD cams
Video library displays all clips, stored on internal or external drives
Automatically groups video by Events, based on day shot
Preview clips "skiming" through dynamic filmstrip, forward/back, any speed
Make movie by dragging video into a project
Add soundtrack from iTunes, voiceover recording
Real-time video and audio enhancements and effects, real-time transitions
cinematic titles with in-place editing
Enjoy movies on iPod, iPhone or Apple TV, share on YouTube
New Apple-designed motion themes
Real-time Core Video effects
Cinematic titling - text effects
New audio enhancement tools and sound effects
Open multiple projects at once, Move clips among projects
Live video import directly from an iSight camera
Improved rendering and editing performance
Edit directly in the Timeline
Select multiple clips and edit multiple clips simultaneously
Sync key audio events to video frames with alignment
Display audio clips as graphical waveforms; live audio scrubbing
Transfer completed projects to iDVD while preserving chapter markers
- AutoMovie adds a title, credits, transitions, and effects
- Customize with easy-to-use editing tools. Trim, titles, transitions, music, effects
- Create slide shows your photos and music, photos glide and zoom in
- Publish on YouTube, burn to DVD (requires Windows DVD Maker)
- Easy and intuitive new interface
- Import from digital video or still camera, Import from tape and burn directly to DVD
- Integrated with Windows Photo Gallery: Review, rate, tag; sort and filter, Instant Search
- Generate AutoMovie, complete with titles, credits, and transitions; Add custom effects and transitions
- Edit native MPEG-2, HDV; Render with hardware GPU support
- Preview in full-screen and full HD resolution
- Publish in HD to Windows Media HD; Burn to disc with Windows DVD Maker
www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/features/dvd-maker.aspx
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/moviemaker www.microsoft.com/windowsmedia - AutoMovie feature automatically creates a fully edited 3 to 5 min. home movie,
including transitions and effects, from raw video footage in a matter of minutes
- More than 130 new kinds of video effects, titles and transitions
- Built-in CD burning, send e-mail, save to the Web
share on PocketPC, export to DV camera
- Windows Media 9 compression, Store 15 hours of video in 10 GB
Simplified video editing tools with consumer-friendlyinterfaces. Import from mobile phones, DV & MPEG camcorders, and new HDV& AVCHD high-def camcorders. Simple storyboard to multi-track timelineediting, with transitions, effects, animated titles and graphics, soundtracks. Range from around$80 to $150.
Premiere Elements - www.adobe.com/products/premiere-elements.html
Photoshop Elements - www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-elements.html
Elements Product Family - www.adobe.com/products/elements-family.html
- Automatically create polished movies in minutes with InstantMovie
- Import and edit high-def AVCHD video
- Automatically analyze clips and apply Smart Tags
- Organize and preview clips with the new clip preview and tagging window
- Composite green-screen video overlays with Videomerge
- Add SmartSound soundtracks adjusted to movie and music tempo
Photoshop.com: Stay connected with your favorite people and memories
www.adobe.com/products/psprelements/membership
- Share interactive photo albums and videos online
- Access photos and movies from any web-enabled computer using online Organizer
- Automatic backup to online storage: Basic 2 GB, Plus 20 GB
- Regular inspiration updates (Plus): Download new creative project elements on regular basis
- Photoshop.com Mobile: Upload, view, and share photos on the go with
View online photos on mobile phone. Upload directly to online Organizer,
then automatically sync to desktop Organizer. Runs on Windows Mobile smartphones
- Updated interface: clean, easy-to-use
- Tight integration with Photoshop Elements
- Shared Organizer, common database accessible from either application
- Sort video clips and still photos
- Visual tagging to categorize by people, places, events
- Apply event- or style-based movie themes to make a polished movie
- Audio Mixer like a mixing board in a recording studio
- Edit to beat - Automatically detects tempo of musical soundtrack
- Syncs scenes with the beats for slideshows and movies
- Sharing Center: upload and share on disc, Web, mobile devices, Apple iPhone
- Export to Web sites in Adobe Flash Player compatible video
- Movies in high definition, including Blu-ray Disc
- Enhanced import video, audio, and still images from virtually any device:
DV and DVD camcorders, HDV devices, web, digital still and mobile phone cameras,
unprotected DVDs, MPEG-4 video recorders, and Windows Media Center
- Enhanced share on portable devices: Apple video iPod, Sony PSP, MPEG-4 format
- Enhanced DV to DVD in two steps: Capture to Sceneline, Export to DVD
- Capture and edit native HDV
- Still-frame animation: Time-lapse movies, claymations
- Sceneline View: Assemble thumbnails in storyboard (plus Timeline)
- Add voice-over narration while previewing
- Edit directly in Monitor window: Trim and split clips, drag and drop effects and transitions, enter title text
- Automatically transfer footage from your DV camcorder to the timeline, in one easy step
- Context-sensitive How-Tos can guide you through every step of the editing process
- Real-time edits and effects
- Feel free to experiment with Auto Save and multiple undos and redos
- Enhance your videos with hundreds of professional-quality special effects,
100 professionally designed templates for titles and rolling credits,
more than 150 transitions, and 30 Adobe fonts designed for video
- Burn custom DVDs with integrated DVD burning with menus and automatic scene indexes
- Edit, output, and view videos in traditional TV-style (4:3) or widescreen movie (16:9) format
Find Adobe Visual Communicator 3 on Amazon.com Students or educators create television-quality news broadcasts
Create video presentation, set to music, enhance with an library of newscast-style graphics, effects, titles
Enhanced keyer to replace solid green or blue background with image, video or graphic background
Produce live video content streamed using Adobe Flash technology; Narrate digital photo collections
New set-up wizards, drag-and-drop animated templates, interactive Coach
Preview up to three cameras at once while recording or presenting live
Use mini-switcher feature to create interview-style videos in real time
Full-screen teleprompter allows the presenter to read scripts from a distance